{"id":3625,"date":"2014-07-30T14:17:53","date_gmt":"2014-07-30T14:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.w3p.com\/uk\/?p=3625"},"modified":"2015-07-22T16:02:37","modified_gmt":"2015-07-22T15:02:37","slug":"charging-web-2-print","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.w3p.com\/uk\/charging-web-2-print\/","title":{"rendered":"Should I charge my client for web-2-print systems?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the number one FAQ when it comes to web-2-print.<\/p>\n<p>In an ideal world we would always charge for system set up, but the reality is we may not be able to charge in full or for every system.<\/p>\n<p>Web-2-print implementers face a risk-versus-reward commercial judgement (as set out below).<\/p>\n<p><center><img title=\"Commercial Decisions when charging for web-2-print\" src=\"\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Charge-web-2-print.jpg\" alt=\"Commercial Decisions when charging for web-2-print\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>From the client&#8217;s perspective, it&#8217;s the cost of build vs savings (in terms of time and money), while for the printer, it&#8217;s the cost vs the expected monthly or annual contribution.<\/p>\n<p>The actual cost will depend on the time it takes to build the system.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Possible Parameters<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Of course monthly maintenance\/management fees are an option. However we see fewer and fewer clients agreeing to a monthly fee unless there is significant third-party product.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore the build costs need to be recovered either directly or from the resulting print.<\/p>\n<p>If a deal can&#8217;t be agreed upon, contingent or retrospective charges could be considered, and a figure per PDF or month for use of the system with third party items.<\/p>\n<div style=\"float:left;width:60px\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-text=\"Should I charge for the web-2-print system?\" data-via=\"w3pltd\" data-count=\"none\">Tweet<\/a><br \/>\n<script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"float:left;width:60px\">\n<div class=\"g-plus\" data-action=\"share\" data-annotation=\"none\"><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n  (function() {\n    var po = document.createElement('script'); po.type = 'text\/javascript'; po.async = true;\n    po.src = 'https:\/\/apis.google.com\/js\/platform.js';\n    var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(po, s);\n  })();\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the number one FAQ when it comes to web-2-print. In an ideal world we would always charge for system set up, but the reality is we may not be able to charge in full or for every system. Web-2-print implementers face a risk-versus-reward commercial judgement (as set out below). From the client&#8217;s perspective, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[28,59,60,61],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w3p.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3625"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w3p.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w3p.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3p.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3p.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3625"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3p.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5356,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3p.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3625\/revisions\/5356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w3p.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3p.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3p.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}