Hourlie Add-on Enhancements
The new add-on feature for Hourlies is a great idea, but in my opinion it just needs a couple of tweaks as detailed here:
Allow individual Add-Ons to be paused
Currently, if a freelancer's workload prohibits the fulfillment of an Add-On, the only solution is to delete it from the Hourlie. Obviously, this is onerous if many Add-Ons are listed and need temporarily removing, just to be re-added at a later date - particularly when ordering is important.
Ideally, pausing an Add-On would keep it listed in the Hourlie but with the text "Temporarily unavailable" (or similar) in place of the option to add it
Description fields for each add-on created
At the moment, we can specify an add-on title, price and time-scale; but we cannot add any detail to it to further explain what is included (or excluded).
The general Hourlie description field is too small with it's 2000 character limit, to adequately describe the core service and each of the add-ons. In fact, I find the limit restrictive as it is.
Replace the "I can" prefix with "Add: "
Using the term "Add: " makes it much clearer that the listed items are in addition to the core service, and is less awkward when deciding how to phrase the add-on
Allow a full range of prices
I'd like to be able to charge at least in intervals of 25p, if this is to become a solid replacement for me asking for additional deposits for services that exceed the core Hourlie.
Allow for the purchase of multiple Add-ons
It would be useful for buyers to be able to add x number of the same add-on. One of your examples is "I can add an extra minute". If a buyer needs two extra minutes, then the option to specify two lots of that add-on would accommodate that requirement - in much the same way that buyers can purchase one to five lots of a core Hourlie.
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I agree with all of that, in particular the wording of "Add:", much clearer. And yes the ability to describe the add-on seems pretty obvious, not sure why that's not there. If you have a few add-ons makes more sense for the customer to be able to confirm they have the right one before buying without having to scroll back up to description again.
Also with regard to the time-scale of the add-on, from what I can gather from a recent rejection of an hourlie it seems that in total it can't add to more than 5 days! So if your hourlie takes 5 days in the first place you have to say that any add-ons will take no additional time. Currently still trying to get the hourlie approved so I'm not 100%, but I've read the email over and over and that seems to be the case, makes no sense to me.
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Also the maximum time is 5 days. If I am creating an hourlie that is a project kind of thing it can take more days. For example entire internet marketing task will take around 8-12 months.
There are hourlies that are every month sales, buyer wont have time to buy it again an again. Some option to handle this.
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The example in my last point of my OP was based on PPH's own examples in the email sent out announcing the Add-Ons - but, in my case, one of my Hourlies is for a transcription service in which I publish a rate per audio minute (e.g., 50p). The total cost to the buyer is then calculated based upon the duration of audio.
For the buyer to be able to add the required number of Add-Ons to be able to bring the total cost of the Hourlie to the correct value for the audio recording in question would be very useful.
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I'm new to PPH, and finding the experience overall "pretty, pretty... pretty good".
However, when editing my hourlie, I have noticed that the time frame for 'Express Delivery' automatically reverts back to 1 day. So I need to remember to set it back to 3 days everytime I edit.
Hope that's clear enough. Let me know if you need more explanation.
Travis, The Modern Designer
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Also,
Please make the add-ons editable, because title is not, and order is not. it would be nice if you can drag the orders and edit the titles as well. If you made a mistake naming those add-ons, or add new ones, you're gonna gonna have to delete and remake everything under them.
And yes, as Travis says, it reverts back to day 1. so I rather remove them, or wait for them to get fixed.
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