Web Development Contract

Looking for a web development contract?

If you own your own web design or web development business, or are thinking about or in the process of starting one, one of the most important things you'll do is draft up a solid web development contract.  This can almost be more important than incorporating your business, which theoretically should provide you with the corporate veil necessary to shield your personal assets from business lawsuits, but not necessarily. There are loopholes that well-paid lawyers can use to get past the corporate veil and straight into your personal assets, especially if you are the sole shareholder (ie. one person corporation) in your company. To really cover your butt, you need a bulletproof web development contract.

Purchasing a web contract or writing your own?

The decision you need to reach is not so much whether to purchase a contract or write your own, because you'll need to tweak the contract to meet your unique business needs either way. But for the most part, our attorney approved web development contract template should have you covered. Use the link to view our web development contract page, where you'll find details not only on how to write your contract, but actual sample clauses that belong in any good web contract. Finally, for a limited time we're offering our own attorney approved contract to our visitors at a reduced price. From time to time we'll have even more drastic mark-downs, although those typically only last a few days at a time.

Tailoring our web development contract to your business

Once you've purchased our web development contract, you'll want to tailor it to suit the unique aspects of your business. The changes you make, for example, will differ depending on the industry you're in. In the simplest case, you are a web design company that simply designs one-off websites. In this case the contract is pretty much ready to go. You simply fill in the details for you or your company as well as those for your client. You'll note that our contract ties together the terms of your agreement with your client with your invoices, as well as your revision-based schedule.

Creating a revision-based schedule for project changes

It's vital that you give your client a fixed number of revisions for the project you are doing for them. Why? If you don't, they may take advantage of you and take up all your time having you make changes to the product, even though in your mind it's finished and you've completed your terms of the contract. But unless you state all this in writing, you won't legally be covered to enforce it. You'll also want to make sure that all your correspondence with your client references the specific revision that you're currently on. For example, if you're working on revision 2 of 3, and the client has a question before the deadline for revision 2, you'll want to place a header in all of your correspondence (via email, for example) specifying that this relates to revision 2.

Why is this important? Should you ever need to litigate over a dispute, you'll need to provide your written correspondence with your client as evidence. When the judge sees how well documented everything is, and that certain milestones are attached to certain revisions, the client will have a difficult time arguing against the terms of your contract.