Poll: What is your minimum fee? Thread poster: ProZ.com Staff
| | Minimum means minimum | Dec 7, 2018 |
"No, I will not accept half my minimum fee. I don't care if it's only eight words. Do you not understand the word minimum?!" Mine is one hour. | | | | neilmac Spain Local time: 02:30 Spanish to English + ...
Unless you count the odd freeby. | |
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My minimum translation fee is equivalent to one hour’s work. I only apply my minimum charge to one-off jobs from new clients. If a client regularly wants lots of little jobs done then I switch to monthly invoicing and I’ll add up everything at the end of the month. With some of these customers I have negotiated a special fee (for instance, I charge a fixed rate per job to a very regular client regardless of the number of words, as it never exceeds 20 words and most times consists only of 10/... See more My minimum translation fee is equivalent to one hour’s work. I only apply my minimum charge to one-off jobs from new clients. If a client regularly wants lots of little jobs done then I switch to monthly invoicing and I’ll add up everything at the end of the month. With some of these customers I have negotiated a special fee (for instance, I charge a fixed rate per job to a very regular client regardless of the number of words, as it never exceeds 20 words and most times consists only of 10/15 words). For long-standing clients I tend to include the small job into the next invoice or even not to charge it at all. ▲ Collapse | | | Eight words plus admin, research, invoicing, setting up Trados... | Dec 7, 2018 |
Chris S wrote: "No, I will not accept half my minimum fee. I don't care if it's only eight words. Do you not understand the word minimum?!" Mine is one hour. Agreed. I had a client who regularly sent small jobs like that. They could be slogans, they could be mandatory safety phrases that had to be found as much as translated… Most of them had to be set up in Trados, so that they came up in the TM for future use, and my client sat and coordinated them across 20+ EU languages and probably several others. There was at least an hour's work in those, but of course my client knew how much work was involved, and paid without a quibble. He also sent jobs I could actually earn money on, too. All good things come to an end, and I don't work on that project any more, but it was good while it lasted. To those who don't have a minimum charge, WHY NOT? | | |
My minimum fee is EUR 25 / USD 25 and applies whenever a job takes less than one hour. My clients don't mind and I actually have quite a few of those during one month. On the other hand, if someone asks me to translate just a couple of words - say up to 10w (with good, regular clients even a little more) - I don't charge anything. This has worked out beautifully for years and I wouldn't want to change it. | | | It depends on the project | Dec 7, 2018 |
If it is an ongoing project and they send you +/- eight to eighty-eight words only, but every day, while invoicing is monthly, I wouldn't mind it. Otherwise, it's $10 min. | |
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| Michael Harris Germany Local time: 02:30 Member (2006) German to English
generally. I only have one customer who sends my loads of smaller text segments who, after a while, I applied a minimum fee, but other than that 95% of the work I get is well above a minimum fee. | | | Of course, I do real 'one-liners' for free | Dec 7, 2018 |
I do not charge at all for genuine one-liners, where not much effort is involved. One client had a little informative and often humorous remark of the month on their e-mails, which I translated for free - and sometimes used myself! That kind of thing can be enormously effective as marketing, which is a reason for not always charging a minimum fee. | | | Mario Freitas Brazil Local time: 21:30 Member (2014) English to Portuguese + ... No minimum fee | Dec 7, 2018 |
My regular clients usually state a minimum fee for small jobs, so I don't have to state it. Other clients send me jobs regularly, so I invoice the total words in the month, and small jobs are added, so no mimimum fee here either. Some clients don't like the idea of minimum fees, and we must consider that, too. | | | To report site rules violations or get help, contact a site moderator: You can also contact site staff by submitting a support request » Poll: What is your minimum fee? Trados Business Manager Lite | Create customer quotes and invoices from within Trados Studio
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