[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":151},["ShallowReactive",2],{"\u002Fglossary\u002Fwhat-is-fixed-price-app-development\u002F":3},{"id":4,"title":5,"author":6,"body":10,"category":126,"createdAt":127,"description":128,"extension":129,"meta":130,"navigation":136,"ogImage":137,"path":138,"relatedServices":139,"relatedTerms":142,"seo":146,"shortAnswer":147,"stem":148,"term":149,"updatedAt":127,"__hash__":150},"glossary\u002Fglossary\u002Fwhat-is-fixed-price-app-development.md","What is Fixed-Price App Development?",{"name":7,"social":8},"Simon Dziak",{"twitter":9},"@SzymonDziak",{"type":11,"value":12,"toc":118},"minimark",[13,25,30,36,42,45,49,52,56,90,94],[14,15,16,20,21,24],"p",{},[17,18,19],"strong",{},"Fixed-price app development"," means the developer and the client agree on what will be delivered and what it will cost before any work starts. The client pays that price whether the work takes fewer or more hours than expected. 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The client carries the risk of the work taking longer, so the total isn't known until the end.",[14,43,44],{},"Many projects use both: a fixed-price first step, such as an audit or a diagnosis, followed by a fixed quote for the work it finds.",[26,46,48],{"id":47},"when-a-fixed-price-works","When a Fixed Price Works",[14,50,51],{},"Our advice: a fixed price works best when the work can be described before it starts. Good examples are fixing one known bug, adding Stripe subscriptions, auditing Firebase security rules, or building a first version with a short, agreed feature list. It works badly for open-ended products where the features are still being discovered. There, a fixed price either gets padded to cover the unknowns or leads to arguments about what was included.",[26,53,55],{"id":54},"what-a-fixed-price-scope-should-spell-out","What a Fixed-Price Scope Should Spell Out",[57,58,59,66,72,78,84],"ul",{},[60,61,62,65],"li",{},[17,63,64],{},"What is delivered",", in terms you can check, such as \"subscriptions with a free trial, live in Stripe test mode\".",[60,67,68,71],{},[17,69,70],{},"What is not included",", so neither side assumes it is.",[60,73,74,77],{},[17,75,76],{},"What the developer needs from you",", such as access to the repository or the Stripe account, and when the clock starts.",[60,79,80,83],{},[17,81,82],{},"How extra work is handled",": quoted in writing first, and only billed after you agree.",[60,85,86,89],{},[17,87,88],{},"Who owns the result"," once it is paid for.",[26,91,93],{"id":92},"fixed-price-development-at-app369","Fixed-Price Development at App369",[14,95,96,97,102,103,107,108,112,113,117],{},"Each of App369's ",[98,99,101],"a",{"href":100},"\u002Ffixed-price\u002F","fixed-price services"," sets out its scope on the offer's page before you pay. 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How it compares with time and materials, when a fixed price works and when it does not, and what a fixed-price scope should spell out.","md",{"readingTimeStats":131},{"text":132,"minutes":133,"time":134,"words":135},"3 min read",2.155,129300,431,true,null,"\u002Fglossary\u002Fwhat-is-fixed-price-app-development",[140,141],"\u002Fservice\u002Fmvp-development\u002F","\u002Fservice\u002Fconsultations\u002F",[143,144,145],"what-is-mvp","what-is-an-app-rescue","what-is-agile-development",{"title":5,"description":128},"Fixed-price app development is a way of buying app work where the scope and the total price are agreed in writing before work starts, so the client pays the agreed amount no matter how many hours the work takes. Anything outside the agreed scope is quoted separately.","glossary\u002Fwhat-is-fixed-price-app-development","Fixed-Price App Development","yGY4-b1fG-yqGWsxQ0pQHC75AQUEAYxJoMxXJK3nJ80",1792810296063]