Adjustments and rate cards

Two related things live here: rate cards (your standing rate terms with an organization) and adjustments (changes to a specific confirmed booking).

Rate cards

A rate card is your agreed pay terms with one organization: a base day (or hourly) rate, overtime tiers, and any modifiers.

Your templates

Under My Rate Cards you keep reusable templates — your standard terms, which you can propose to any organization. Templates are Pro. For each template you can:

• Edit it, Duplicate it, or Delete it.
• Propose to organization… — offer it to an organization that has added you as a contact.

📷 Screenshot: /images/docs/freelancers/rate-card-templates.png The My Rate Cards page with template cards and a "Propose to organization" action. Alt: A list of rate-card templates, each showing a rate and buttons to edit, duplicate, delete, and propose.

Negotiations

When you propose a card — or a producer proposes one to you — it becomes a negotiation. The Negotiations with organizations section lists these, grouped by organization. Each shows the version, the status, and whether it's your turn to respond or you're awaiting the organization.

Open a negotiation to see the full terms. When it's your turn, you can:

• Accept — agree to the terms. It becomes your standing rate card with that organization.
• Counter — send back a different version.
• Decline — turn it down.

Once a card is agreed, a producer can pin it to your bookings, and your booking totals are worked out from it.

Adjustments to a booking

An adjustment changes the money or schedule of a specific confirmed booking. The three kinds are:

• A different day rate — for example, paying a travel day as a full work day.
• An extra line item — for example a per-diem or a kit-rental fee.
• Waiving a rule — setting aside one of the rate card's rules for this job.

Either side can propose one; it takes effect once the other side accepts.

Proposing an adjustment

You can propose an adjustment in two places:

• When you first respond to a booking request, using Confirm with conditions. Your proposal goes to the producer along with your availability.
• From a confirmed booking, if you need a change after the fact.

Describe the change — its type, the amount, the day or scope it applies to, and a note — and send it.

Responding to the producer's proposals

If a producer proposes a change to you, it appears in the Needs your attention panel on the booking. Each item is tagged (Adjustment, Withdrawal, or Rate card), with a Details view showing exactly what would change. You can:

• Accept — agree to the change.
• Counter — propose a different version.
• Decline — turn it down.

Only changes the other side proposed show up here.

📷 Screenshot: /images/docs/freelancers/needs-your-attention.png The "Needs your attention" panel on a booking with a pending adjustment. Alt: A panel headed "Needs your attention" listing a proposed adjustment with Accept, Counter, and Decline buttons.

Withdrawing an accepted adjustment

If something you both already agreed needs to be undone, whoever accepted it has to approve the withdrawal before it's removed. Until then, the adjustment stays in place.

Where to go next

• Understanding your booking — how adjustments affect your total.
• Why some changes need both sides to agree — the principle behind all of this.
• Responding to bookings