Rates per client

Every client agrees their own rate with you. GigGuru keeps it per client, so gigs from their calendar get the right price straight away. How an hourly or day rate is calculated is in Hourly and day rates.

Three levels

For a gig’s rate, GigGuru looks in three places, in this order:

1. The gig itself. The rate stored on the gig always wins.
2. The client. For each client under Settings → Employers you pick one of three under Rate:
   • Default — follows your profile. If you have set a default day rate there, this client gets it. Otherwise they are billed by the hour, at the hourly rate you enter on the client. Below the choice it says what Default currently means, so you do not have to go and check your profile.
   • Hourly rate — always by the hour, even if you set a default day rate later.
   • Day rate — a day rate of this client’s own. If you leave its overtime rate empty, GigGuru derives it from this day rate, not from the one in your profile.
3. Your profile. The Default day rate under Settings → Profile applies to every client set to Default.

Why Hourly rate exists

Once you set a default day rate, it applies to every client on Default. Set a client who has only ever agreed an hourly rate with you to Hourly rate, and they will never get your day rate by accident.

Every gig keeps its own rate

A gig takes over the rate at the moment it lands in your calendar — synced from a feed or created by you — and keeps it from then on. Raise your rate in March and last season’s gigs stay at the rate you worked them for. Your earnings for that period do not change, and an invoice already created stays correct.

You can always price one gig differently: open it, choose Hourly rate or Day rate under Rate and enter the amount. That is also how you take one gig out of its client’s day rate.

Changing a rate

When you change a client’s rate on the web or in the iPhone app, GigGuru asks which jobs should get the new rate:

• Upcoming jobs — jobs that have not started yet, plus everything that comes in afterwards. This is usually what you mean by a price rise.
• All jobs — including work you have already done. Use this for a correction or a rate agreed retroactively. Your earnings for that period change with it.

Jobs already pushed to your accounting software are never touched. A time entry or invoice for them already exists, and GigGuru cannot change it. You see how many were skipped; adjust them in your accounting software if needed.

During onboarding this happens without asking: a rate you enter on a client there applies to their upcoming gigs, which have often only just come in from the calendar with no rate yet.

A new default day rate in your profile applies to gigs that come in afterwards. Existing gigs keep their rate.

The default hourly rate

You set the default hourly rate during onboarding; in the iPhone app it is also under Settings → Profile. During onboarding it pre-fills your clients’ hourly rate. After that a gig always gets its hourly rate from the client, not from your profile, so set the hourly rate on every client who pays by the hour.