Re: Billing client for studying documentation

On Sat, February 3, 2007 8:09 pm, Mike Mannakee wrote: > I have a php project I have been working on for several months. The > client's requirements have expanded to include interfacing to an > online > service using xml, which I was familiar with but have never worked > with > prior to this project. I have spent a good number of hours reading up > on > xml, and learning how to use it to integrate with this online service. > I > have also spent hours poring over hundreds of pages of documentation > for the > online service itself. > > My question is this - should I be billing the client for this time? > It is > needed to properly work with this framework, but it is not programming > time > in itself. Googling the topic has been useless. You should probably discuss it with the client... Actually, you should have discussed it before you started researching. :-v That said, you can probably safely invoice for a few hours of "XML research", but it shouldn't be big enough to be more than a line item in the whole project invoice. On the plus side, acquiring knowledge is always expensive, and almost always worth the expense. :-) -- Some people have a "gift" link here. Know what I want? I want you to buy a CD from some starving artist. http://cdbaby.com/browse/from/lynch Yeah, I get a buck. So?