Contracts/Work Orders
Joomla! Crafters will always provide the customer with a work order contract before work begins on a project. The contract can range from simplistic to highly detailed, depending of course on the project to be done by Joomla! Crafters.
Some standard items you may expect to find would entail:
Some standard items you may expect to find would entail:
- A set total price for work to be done
- An estimated timeline for the work to be completed
- Payment scheduling and payment amounts
- List of items that the customer needs to provide
- Listing of services that will be performed by Joomla! Crafters' designers
- Whether outside affiliates will be employed to complete the project
- Steps to be taken to complete your project
In cases of larger projects that become involved and might contain large amounts of information to complete, additional sections will have to be added to the standard contract to avoid any miscommunication between Joomla! Crafters and the customer. Such as:
SEO (Search Engine Optimization) jobs are done and to be paid for by the customer when Joomla! Crafters is done working on it. The results of SEO are never immediate and may take 6 months or more to be effective in search engines once the job is complete. There is also no guarantee that SEO will get your site to appear on the front page of a search engines results page since that depends on what the searcher typed into the search fields. However SEO will indeed get you site listed higher than without SEO because without SEO implementation, search engines will hardly recognize or even know you site exists.
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Image optimization for those images that are to be provided by the client is not covered by the total cost stated in this contract. If Joomla! Crafters is to optimize client images, then another work agreement will be drawn up.
SEO (Search Engine Optimization) jobs are done and to be paid for by the customer when Joomla! Crafters is done working on it. The results of SEO are never immediate and may take 6 months or more to be effective in search engines once the job is complete. There is also no guarantee that SEO will get your site to appear on the front page of a search engines results page since that depends on what the searcher typed into the search fields. However SEO will indeed get you site listed higher than without SEO because without SEO implementation, search engines will hardly recognize or even know you site exists.
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Image optimization for those images that are to be provided by the client is not covered by the total cost stated in this contract. If Joomla! Crafters is to optimize client images, then another work agreement will be drawn up.
Invoicing
In all cases and on all jobs to be done by Joomla! Crafters, the customer will receive an initial invoice for half, or estimated half of their project. Work will not begin on their project until that initial invoice is paid. The customer will then receive an invoice upon completion of the project for the remainder of the amount owed according to the amount stated on the original contract.
In cases where 3 or more payments are to be made on a large projects, the schedule of those payments will be discussed with the client before a work contract is drafted up and will be included in the work contract. But the first or down payment shall still be made before Joomla! Crafters begins work.
All invoicing will be through PayPal and be sent to the customer through PayPal’s email system on the behalf of Joomla! Crafters account.
For reasons that PayPal would not be used for invoicing, please read our “Payment Scheduling” page, under the section titled “How does Joomla! Crafters receive payments from customers?”
In cases where 3 or more payments are to be made on a large projects, the schedule of those payments will be discussed with the client before a work contract is drafted up and will be included in the work contract. But the first or down payment shall still be made before Joomla! Crafters begins work.
All invoicing will be through PayPal and be sent to the customer through PayPal’s email system on the behalf of Joomla! Crafters account.
For reasons that PayPal would not be used for invoicing, please read our “Payment Scheduling” page, under the section titled “How does Joomla! Crafters receive payments from customers?”
