[AccessD] Maintenance Fees?

Thanks Art and Rocky, you guys have definitely given me insight!



On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 2:27 PM, Arthur Fuller <fuller.artful at gmail.com>wrote:

> IMO, you rolled several questions into one, here. First thing to consider
> is whether you are going to perform actual work in each month of your
> alleged billable time. Conversely, consider this arrangement from the
> client's point of view; two months go by and you haven't lifted a finger,
> but still request payment, and for what? Promising not to die and leave
> said client dangling? Alternatively, said client will demand this or that
> trivial fix (move this textbox a few millimeters to the left, and enhance
> this report).
>
> Next question is, can you re-sell said app to other clients, or is it a
> one-off? In the former case, then a monthly fee makes economic sense; in
> the latter case, every embellishment/enhancement is billable separately,
> and later for the monthly payment.
>
> In the case of repeat sales, you might wish to talk to Rocky Smolin, whose
> product EZ-ERP he managed to sell to somebody and then revert to his
> vocation as a jazz musician. I'm thinking of following in his footsteps,
> but sadly there are few opportunites in said community for tabla players,
> and even if there were some, although I have taken lessons from three of
> the best tabla players in the world (Zakir Hussain, Swapan Chaudhuri and
> Ritesh Das), my skills are sadly lacking. Such is life. O well.
>
> A.
>
>
> On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 1:36 PM, John Serrano <john.k.serrano at gmail.com
> >wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have recently written an app in MS Access 2010.
> > Application went pretty easy, however I am getting calls about "tweaking"
> > the application or making enhancements. So I was discussing with them
> maybe
> > a maintenance fee?
> >
> > Does anyone charge past clients a monthly maintenance fee? or is it a
> > straight bill rate time number of hours you work on "whatever"?
> > If you do, can you give me a ball park range for the east coast of the US
> > of A.
> > PA to be exact...
> >
> > any help would be appreciated, thanks!
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