The $3,200 difference
You quoted $8,000 for a website redesign. The client loves your work. Then: “Can we add a blog?” “Actually, can the contact form also send to Slack?” “One more page would be great.”
Each request is small. Each one feels awkward to push back on. You finish the project. You did $11,200 worth of work. You got paid $8,000.
−$3,200
You quoted $8,000. The same additions came in. But this time you logged each one in Overage — 10 seconds per addition. At the midpoint, you sent a scope change report.
“Here are the 9 additions since we started. The total value of added work is $3,200. How would you like to handle this?” The client paid the difference. Without argument.
+$3,200
Overage turns scope drift from a feeling — “I think I'm doing more than I quoted for” — into a fact: “The client has added $3,200 of work since the contract was signed.”
“But I don't want to seem difficult.”
You're not being difficult. You're being professional.
A scope change report isn't a complaint. It's documentation. Clients respect it because it treats the relationship as a business one.
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