Web development contract
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About this document
This is a contract between a website developer and a client for the design and development of a new site, or the amendment of pages on an existing one.
You may be, for example:
customising a popular content management system such as Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal, Magento or Shopify
creating a simple static HTML site
amending pages on an existing site
updating functionality, such as installing later versions of third party plug-ins or adding a search facility
The document can be presented to the client as the final contract, or as a draft for negotiation.
It covers design, development, testing and all other areas of your work.
Website development is a type of work that is notorious for scope creep. The client may not understand in advance what services are being provided, or may later want further changes or work to be done. As a professional developer, you need to make clear what the scope entails.
This agreement is in plain English so that your client can never say it was not clear.
This document will protect you from many legal pitfalls, but does not attempt to provide technical input for your specification of work (because that could vary greatly from project to project). We leave it to you to create the specification within the contract.
Contents
The agreement includes the following, as well as other miscellaneous legal provisions:
the customer approves the work in stages
additional work is paid for on an agreed basis
responsibility for other services such as marketing is clearly laid out
excluded matters for the client's separate attention (that you will not provide, yet which impact on the overall project) are listed, such as registering domain names, organising hosting or payment service provision
testing and acceptance
alternative payment arrangements
clear and strong identification and protection of your intellectual property.
appropriate legal provisions such as exclusions and indemnities
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