February 23, 201115 yr Ok, so what does everybody do in regards to charging clients for hosting and domains. Charge once a year for hosting and include the yearly price of the domain or just charge once a year for hosting and then bill them seperately as and when domains become due for renewal??
February 23, 201115 yr Have a look at what actual hosting companies do, that will tell you everything :-) What do you think might happen if you tried to sync every hosting renewal with domain renewals?
February 23, 201115 yr Author Have a look at what actual hosting companies do, that will tell you everything :-) What do you think might happen if you tried to sync every hosting renewal with domain renewals? Not sure you got what I meant, what I meant was say the domain was a .co.uk and priced at £10 for 2 years, would you charge £5 per year in with the annual hosting or just bill seperately at £10 every 2 years?
February 23, 201115 yr Ahhh, well, you couldnt charge £5 p/yr because .uk names are only renewable in 2yr increments. What if clients have lots of domains and 1 hosting plan, it makes things far more complicated than it needs to be if you try to break down the domains and add them to the hosting costs.
February 23, 201115 yr We handle them seperatly, but re-orcurring invoices are not diffucult as we use FreshBooks to handle all our invoicing. We setup the invoice to re-occur at given intervals as some also pay dedicated server hosting monthly - but with FB it's all handled for us no problem.
February 24, 201115 yr Charge what it costs (+ your support fees or whatever) and do it upfront for each individual item. Lump them together into one invoice if you like but don't spread the costs out - it makes things more complicated than it needs to be and can leave you out of pocket (what if they don't pay the 2nd years £5? You're out for that). If they have a problem with this, you don't want them as customers anyway.
February 24, 201115 yr Not sure you got what I meant, what I meant was say the domain was a .co.uk and priced at £10 for 2 years, would you charge £5 per year in with the annual hosting or just bill seperately at £10 every 2 years? Our practice is to charge for domain for 2 years and hosting seperately (yearly).
February 24, 201115 yr I think you should charge your clients more than £10 a year for hosting. That's about 83p per month!!
February 24, 201115 yr I think you should charge your clients more than £10 a year for hosting. That's about 83p per month!! Agreed, to be honest £10 a year would just cover domain renewal and wouldn't pay for any hosting at all?
February 24, 201115 yr Agreed, to be honest £10 a year would just cover domain renewal and wouldn't pay for any hosting at all? ANYBODY charging £10 a year for hosting on it own is either overselling massively, without the support to back it up, or wont be in business for very long, let alone providing a domain name for that too. £10 only just covers a domain name.
February 24, 201115 yr Author I think you should charge your clients more than £10 a year for hosting. That's about 83p per month!! Agreed, to be honest £10 a year would just cover domain renewal and wouldn't pay for any hosting at all? ANYBODY charging £10 a year for hosting on it own is either overselling massively, without the support to back it up, or wont be in business for very long, let alone providing a domain name for that too. £10 only just covers a domain name. Who is charging £10 a year for hosting then?
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