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sxywebgirl
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06/10/13 02:05 PM (12 years ago)

What do you use for a mobile app contract for clients?

I'm putting together a mobile app contract for my client and wondered if anyone will share what they use so as to save me time and not "recreate the wheel". Looking forward to see what others have come up with and like using, -sxywebgirl
 
mysps
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06/10/13 02:10 PM (12 years ago)
David made one back a while ago: http://www.buzztouch.com/files/howtos/sow-sample.pdf "This sample Statement of Work may be useful if you're bidding on for-hire development work. Keep it simple. Keep it honest. It'll keep you busy. " It was in the How-To section of buzztouch
 
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06/10/13 02:38 PM (12 years ago)
As above, that was a good share and very useful. I'm lucky that I have my good lady to put things together, my own cute lil account rep! Stops me strangling folk.
 
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06/10/13 02:41 PM (12 years ago)
Oh! I didn't know she made it! Awesome indeed. Credit definitely goes to her :)
 
sxywebgirl
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06/10/13 03:31 PM (12 years ago)
@mysps, That is a great example! Sorry for not looking in the How-To section before I posted my question. What about monthly updates or push notification charges? Have you had a client you do monthly updates for? I was thinking of including free push notification but other comments I've read online say to charge per push notification. This seems outrageous when $4.95 per notification is suggested. Thanks!
 
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06/10/13 04:55 PM (12 years ago)
it might depend on how many clients and apps you are dealing with on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis, but if just starting out, I would consider something of a hybrid- 1-2 free ones/month, and anything over that charge per notification. otherwise, some will expect you to do one everyday,etc. That can get time consuming.
 
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06/10/13 06:28 PM (12 years ago)
I setup my control panel so that a user can login and 'only' view the app coverage map, and the push message panel... they can send messages, they can view the message log, they can see who throughout the world is using their app... Now all I have to do is implement 'push'. ;) But if you do it 'that' way, you can charge a blanket monthly fee, and just let them do it themselves. requires a bit of editing in your self hosted control panel, but PSMDanny has some pretty good instructions; it's over at BTMods. Cheers! -- Smug
 
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06/10/13 06:47 PM (12 years ago)
I am only doing one monthly update (monthly menu specials) and the client will be doing the push notifications themselves. Currently I've set up push using Parse.com and will give client login rights. I'm still researching new host providers since my current host 1&1 doesn't allow multiple user login for a database (thought by now it would be standard functionality). I'll keep in mind PSMDanny's instructions and check them out when I'm ready. Thanks!
 

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