Invoicing gremlins...
Nov. 30th, 2010 05:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpThe invoicing process turned and snapped at me again today, or at least it seemed that way. One of my clients has fundamentally changed the way work is invoiced, transitioning from a fairly traditional "per word" model to an hourly model, where the allowable number of hours that can be charged times the hourly rate just happen to be equal to the per-word rate.
Translators welcome changes like this about as much as retirees like inflation, and probably not as much, because often, there's some kind of catch. Even without any catch, it's extra work on the invoicing end, and extra steps always introduce the potential for error.
In any event, the invoicing for the month is over, and what started as a "mediocre" month a couple of days ago dropped to being "borderline" yesterday (when I found out about the invoicing snafu) before jumping up to become an "fair" month today.
In any event, the hardcopy record I've been keeping of various jobs just wasn't working out (mostly because the notebook kept wandering), and so a little while ago, I consolidated my checklist from over a decade ago (when it mattered whether delivery was to be made by fax, email, or courier) with some of the notice-to-proceed documents that some clients send me.
I took the result and arranged it on a OneNote page and made the thing a template. Then I've logged the two jobs that came in today into a separate OneNote notebook using that template. The proof of the pudding will come when the time comes to invoice the work.
Cheers...
Translators welcome changes like this about as much as retirees like inflation, and probably not as much, because often, there's some kind of catch. Even without any catch, it's extra work on the invoicing end, and extra steps always introduce the potential for error.
In any event, the invoicing for the month is over, and what started as a "mediocre" month a couple of days ago dropped to being "borderline" yesterday (when I found out about the invoicing snafu) before jumping up to become an "fair" month today.
In any event, the hardcopy record I've been keeping of various jobs just wasn't working out (mostly because the notebook kept wandering), and so a little while ago, I consolidated my checklist from over a decade ago (when it mattered whether delivery was to be made by fax, email, or courier) with some of the notice-to-proceed documents that some clients send me.
I took the result and arranged it on a OneNote page and made the thing a template. Then I've logged the two jobs that came in today into a separate OneNote notebook using that template. The proof of the pudding will come when the time comes to invoice the work.
Cheers...
