You work for yourself, but your work doesn’t look the same every month. A one-off project, a regular client or an interim assignment: weeks.work is for freelancers who manage their own client work and invoicing.
Working independently involves more than the hours you spend on client work. You might spend months on one assignment or divide your week between several clients. Either way, you discuss the work, prepare for it and work through feedback. Alongside practising your craft, you have a business to run.
You need to be able to find what you agreed with a client and what still needs invoicing, even when you spend the afternoon on an introductory call or preparing for your next assignment. Client work and running your business happen alongside each other.
When the scope isn’t clear at the start, an hourly arrangement can make sense. You might investigate a client’s question, conduct interviews and work through recommendations. The time spent on each activity belongs to the same assignment.
You agree with your client which hours you’ll charge for. Preparation and coordination take time too, even when they don’t appear separately on the invoice. That time matters when you decide whether an assignment is a good fit.
Some client relationships become ongoing work. A marketer might run campaigns for the same client, discuss the results and prepare for the month ahead. You get to know the organisation better, even as the work changes from month to month.
With a retainer, you agree a fixed monthly fee for that ongoing work. Together, you decide what it covers. In weeks.work, that monthly arrangement stays with the project, and you create the invoices for the relevant periods yourself.
As an independent consultant, you might spend three months helping one client improve the handover from sales to delivery. You discuss the current process, work out improvements and get to know the organisation. You still manage your own agreements and invoicing.
The duration of the assignment and the way you charge are separate decisions. You might agree an hourly rate or a fixed monthly fee for interim work. That pricing arrangement determines how you invoice it.
A designer might create a brochure for an event. The client knows what they need and when it must be ready. With a fixed project fee, you agree what that price covers, from the first design to the agreed round of revisions.
Even after you move on to something new, you still need to find the details of the previous assignment. In weeks.work, the client, project and invoice stay connected. You record received payments yourself, so you can see what’s been paid and what remains outstanding.
Add your client and a project, with the pricing arrangement you’ve agreed.
