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desmintaylor · 08-26-2012, 09:54 AM

I am now starting to get a slow but steady stream of clients now from my freelancing, and I'm kind of on the fence on how I should charge.

I was at first doing "packages" which had certain price sets for a specific number of pages.

Now I'm thinking of possibly switching to a hourly pay while I work on the project. My question is, how can I let my clients know that I am not trying to cheat them or anything by falsifying my hours. Example. I spent 2 hours designing the layout of their site, but a dishonest person will say "I spent 4 hours designing this for you."

See where I'm going with this?

How does this work when there is literally no time clock to punch in with?

Thanks in advance.

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desmintaylor New Coder Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: Chester, Virginia Posts: 13 Thanks: 4 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	How do I charge per hour in a legit way when building someone's website? I am now starting to get a slow but steady stream of clients now from my freelancing, and I'm kind of on the fence on how I should charge. I was at first doing "packages" which had certain price sets for a specific number of pages. Now I'm thinking of possibly switching to a hourly pay while I work on the project. My question is, how can I let my clients know that I am not trying to cheat them or anything by falsifying my hours. Example. I spent 2 hours designing the layout of their site, but a dishonest person will say "I spent 4 hours designing this for you." See where I'm going with this? How does this work when there is literally no time clock to punch in with? Thanks in advance.