[AccessD] Maintenance Fees?

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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