If you want to provide maintenance and repair services as part of your business, you'll need to develop a maintenance and repair contract. This is for your protection and the client's protection, so that you get paid, and your client gets what she's paying for. Developing a maintenance and repair contract is a process of figuring out precisely what you want to provide and what you want to get in return for the service.
Instructions
1. Write down the types of maintenance and repair work you'll provide. For example, if you're providing maintenance and repair services for computer systems, write down every possible part you'll maintain and repair along with what hours you'll work.
2. Write down what services your agreement won't cover or services that cost extra. In the computer system maintenance and repair example, you may not want to provide maintenance and repair coverage for laptop computers, unless the client's willing to pay you twice your normal rate.
3. Determine what rate you'll charge the client, and what the rate's based on. Your rate might be a flat rate, an hourly rate with a fixed minimum number of hours or a combination of these approaches. Ensure that you'll earn what your work is worth while providing a competitive rate to your client, so that she chooses you over a competitor.
4. Show your contract to your client, and determine if you need to negotiate or change anything. Depending on your experience level with negotiations, you may wish to bring in a third party, such as an attorney, to help in this type of negotiation.
5. Sign the final contract, and have your client sign it, as well. Once the contract is signed, you have a legal obligation to provide the services that you agreed to provide, and your client has an obligation to provide the payment that was agreed upon.
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