Time-based Collaboration Guide
Thank you for being interested in working for us. We want every collaboration go off without a hitch. Please submit the consent form if you accept the terms laid out on this page.
Time-based collaboration guide
Applicants who haven't agreed to the terms before their first working day cannot do business with us.
General
Our clients receive reports from us that record who has done what, when. At the end of a month, the amount payable is calculated from that data, and the client is billed.
Report
We pay you for services recorded in the report. The service must have been requested and approved. A service is typically requested by email. A service is approved when you haven't heard from us for more than 72 hours after submitting the report.
The report is a RTF file that is kept in a text editor like Wordpad.
A line in the report consists of the date, the duration of the activity in multiples of five minutes, and the description of the service.
A typical line from a report:
Certain formatting rules apply:
- Use the font Arial, size 11 pt
- A line must not wrap
- Use tabs (not spaces) to separate the columns
- Trim blanks at the end of the line
- Remove empty lines from the end of the report
Feel free to combine several activities into a longer time segment. Use established descriptions over and over.
The smallest billable period is five minutes.
The file name of the report consists of a three-digit abbreviation of your name, a space character, and the month of creation. For the month, use a leading zero.
Examples: has 06.rtf, pmu 11.rtf
If you work on different projects, keep separate reports. One report for each project.
Enter all services in the report. If you do not charge for a service, mark it with "not charged".
Example: Installing program, not charged
Process
A typical timeline for a time-based collaboration:
A report covers one month. Send the report at the end of each working day.
Leave the body of the email blank, unless an explanation is required. Use the subject Report [Project Name]. Send multiple reports in separate emails.
Send your invoice at the beginning of a new month. Begin a new report for the new month.
A report is due within 48 hours after a working day.
Delay
Notified delays are acceptable. Unnotified delays aren't.
If you cannot send a report in time, please notify us in advance and suggest a date of delivery.
If your report is delayed more than 48 hours without prior notice, we will not pay you for the services in question.
Payment
We need an invoice from you. Certain rules apply.
We do not pay you during the month.
We do not make partial payments.
We need an invoice from you before we pay you. The invoice must contain the following information:
- Your full name
- Your street address
- Your country
- An invoice number
- A date
- A description of the service
- Our qualified address
Contributors from the European Union: Please add your value added tax identification number to the invoice.
Employed contributors are not subject to an invoice.
- Our qualified address:
- Schendera
Harald Schendera
Haendelstrasse 19
92637 Weiden
Germany - VAT Reg.No.: DE179636278
The invoice can be a PDF or DOC file. After having received a compliant invoice, we will pay you in a moment.
Consent Form
Please submit the consent form if you accept the terms laid out on this page and want to make business with us.