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Job terms set the price on every proposal from this template. Hourly jobs get a rate from one of three modes. Fixed-price jobs get a bid based on the client’s budget or on your own price.

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Hourly rate

Hourly rate is required in every mode, from $3 to $999. Smart and Flexible use it as the Default rate for jobs that state no hourly budget. Pick the mode by how much budgets vary in your niche:
  • Fixed (default): the same rate on every job. Pick it when you charge one rate everywhere.
  • Smart: your bid follows the client’s stated budget, inside your own range. Pick it when budgets swing and you want to land inside the client’s range.
  • Flexible: your own rule for each budget range. Pick it when you already have price tiers.
Switching modes keeps what you entered in the other modes. Auto-bidding sets a Smart or Flexible bid when it schedules a job, so a rate change applies to jobs scheduled after you save.

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Smart

  • Your min rate and Your max rate (required, $3 to $999): your bid never goes outside this range, and the minimum can’t be above the maximum. On your first switch to Smart, Vollna fills them from your hourly rate: 90% and 150%, rounded to $5.
  • Bid percentage (default 80%, from 0% to 100%): where your bid lands in the client’s budget range. 0% bids their minimum, 100% their maximum. At 80%, a $30–$50/hr job gets a $46/hr bid.
  • Default rate (required): your bid when the job states no hourly budget.
Keep the min and max apart. When they are equal, every bid is the same and the percentage does nothing.

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Flexible

  • Budget rules (required, one to five): each rule covers one range of the client’s hourly budget.
    • Budget from ($0 or more) and Budget to (higher than Budget from). Leave Budget to empty for no upper limit.
    • Your bid: a fixed rate from $3 to $999 with $, or a share of the client’s budget from 10% to 150% with %.
  • Default rate (required): your bid when the job states no budget or no rule matches it.
Vollna takes the top of the client’s budget range, or the only number when the job states one. It checks your rules from top to bottom, and the first match sets your bid. Order the rules from low to high budgets, with no overlap. The step shows “Budget rules must be in ascending order” or “Budget rules can’t overlap” until you fix them. On your first switch to Flexible, Vollna adds one rule: from $0, no upper limit, at your hourly rate. Add rule ends an open last rule $20 above its start and begins the new rule there. Adjust both.

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Check your bids

Smart and Flexible show How it works: sample client budgets and the bid each one gets. Hover a bid to see how Vollna got it. Enter a budget under Try a client budget to test a job you have in mind.

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Schedule a rate increase

Propose a rate increase with your proposal. If the client approves it, your rate goes up on its own during the contract. You can’t change this term after you accept an offer.
  • How often do you want a rate increase? (default Never): every 3, 6 or 12 months.
  • Rate Increase Amount (required with a frequency): 5%, 10%, 15%, or Custom from 1% to 99.9%.

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Fixed price

  • By Job Terms (default): Vollna bids the client’s budget.
    • Minimum Budget (optional, $5 to $1,000,000): your floor. A lower budget gets this amount.
    • How much of the client’s budget do you want to bid with? (default 100%, from 1% to 500%): at 115%, a $500 budget gets a $575 bid. The Minimum Budget still applies after this.
  • Fixed Project Price: Vollna bids your Project Price (required, $5 to $1,000,000) on every fixed-price job, whatever the client’s budget.
    • Use project job term price if it’s higher than your value (default off): a client budget above your Project Price wins. Tick it when your price is a floor, so a bigger budget gets a bigger bid.