Client invoicing strategies

Integrate
‍Project Lifetime plan
in your agency model

We price our Components based on the time they save you. Instead of spending hours—or days—building advanced features from scratch or integrating third-party tools, you get a ready-to-use Webflow-native solution at a fraction of the cost.
Our Project Lifetime plan—a one-time purchase option—is designed for maximum value, giving you lifetime access to a Component for a single project—no recurring fees, just long-term savings. For example, the Slider Component lets you build CMS-powered sliders effortlessly. At $99 per project, it’s far more cost-effective than custom development or third-party alternatives.
Her's how to include our Components costs into your Freelancer or Agency pricing.
Our recommendation

1. Integrate into service cost

Maximize your earnings.

When you're integrating Finsweet Components, you're integrating high-quality advanced JavaScript into your website. This is a valuable service and you should invoice for it.

Finsweet's simplicity shouldn't reduce the value of your work. We like to invoice more for delivering a higher quality product—and we'll help you do that with Finsweet Components.

Finsweet Components allow freelancers and agencies to create custom, branded, and fully integrated Components in our project.

Better quality, more reliability, easier to build and maintain = more value.

This same principle applies when building in Webflow:

  • Webflow makes it easier to generate HTML and CSS. We shouldn't invoice less money because this professional tool makes us more efficient.
  • Even though Webflow Interactions speeds up animation creation, the value of your work remains high.
Webflow service providers are expensive because, when building in Webflow, the end product is higher quality.
Your professional knowledge is required to create functional website projects. Your skills are worth money, and we want Finsweet Components to help you ask for more money from your clients (not less).

Now that we understand our services are really valuable, let's discuss invoicing strategies.

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1. Integrate the cost of Finsweet Components in your service implementation cost.

Your client pays you for your implementation work, which includes the cost you paid for a Finsweet Components Project Lifetime plan.

This is our recommended strategy because it requires the least amount of communication with your client—and always has the potential to reach attractive profit margins.

In all of the examples below, you handle the cost of Finsweet Components yourself. You pay Finsweet, and your client pays you back through your service implementation cost.

The cost is built into your service, so there's no need to highlight Finsweet Components, it's your choice to talk about Finsweet Components or not! It may help your pitch to say, "I use a professional tool to create these custom sliders. I purchase a lifetime license to use it on your project. This cost is integrated into the cost of implementation."

Here are some example client scenarios to illustrate how invoicing works.

The examples estimate invoice costs, service costs, and implementation hours. These estimates are not meant to be exact. Our goal is to show you:

Finsweet Components saves you time when implementing, giving you the opportunity to earn a higher profit margin.

Scenario 1

Client asks for 3 new Sliders on their website.

INVOICE #001
DESCRIPTION
SUBTOTAL
3x Custom Sliders
$450
Total
$450
Without Finsweet Components
4 hours of your time
$400
Total cost to implement
$400
Additional net
$50
With Finsweet Components
1 hour of your time
$100
Cost of Finsweet Components
$99
Total cost to implement
$200
Additional net
$250

Scenario 2

Client asks for Cookie Consent implementation.

INVOICE #002
DESCRIPTION
SUBTOTAL
Cookie Consent Implementation
$2,500
Total
$2,500
Without Finsweet Components
4 hours of your time
$400
Total cost to implement
$400
NET
$50
With Finsweet Components
1 hour of your time
$100
Cost of Finsweet Components
$249
Total cost to implement
$200
NET
$250

Scenario 2

Client asks for several custom solutions for their website

INVOICE #002
DESCRIPTION
SUBTOTAL
Custom Components Development
$2,000
Slider
Tooltips
Lightbox Gallery
Star Rating
Total
$2,000
Without Finsweet Components
15 hours of your time
$1,500
Total cost to implement
$1,500
Additional net
$500
With Finsweet Components
3 hours of your time
$300
Cost of Finsweet Components
$399
Total cost to implement
$700
Additional net
$1,300

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2. Invoice client directly

Communicate to the client that Finsweet Components is a tool is for them. Have the client directly pay for the cost of Finsweet Components.

If the answer to any of the questions below is "Yes," then Finsweet Components is a great selling point for your sales call.

  • Do you want your marketing team to manage your website?
  • Do you want to reduce the amount of JS inline code on your website?
  • Do you want to avoid updating JavaScript after launch?
  • Do you want a reliable and future-proof solution for key components?
[On your next sales call]
"We know a great tool for building and managing advanced sliders like this. They're easier to builder and quicker to update. You'll be able to make adjustments post-launch and follow these tutorials to make new sliders in the future. The cost of this is $99 one time and you can use this slider tool for life."

Add third-party tools directly to the invoice

Tell the client the cost of Finsweet Components, and add it as a line item on the invoice.

INVOICE #003
DESCRIPTION
SUBTOTAL
Website
$2,000
+ Third party tools
$380
Icon Pack
$32
Slider Component (Lifetime)
$99
Cookie Consent Component (Lifetime)
$249
Total
$2,380

If Cookie Consent cost you $249, add $249 on the invoice. It's as simple as that. The client pays for third-party tools directly as an invoice line item.

Although this strategy can work, we're implementing strategy #1 at Finsweet Agency. While some clients are willing to pay for third-party tools as line items, most are focused on achieving a great result.

We believe strategy #1 offers a more profitable outcome for agencies and freelancers. It streamlines the process, increases profitability, and reduces unnecessary client communication.

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