Transfer site plan and invoice

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Hello everyone,
someone who owns a website creation agency and who uses webflow told me that after creating the site he transfers it to the client. So I would like to know do I have to pay the first month to be able to design the website and then transfer it to the client? Knowing that I don’t know what it will be like if he holds possession of a site whose plan does not correspond.

I ask this question because if I continue to retain ownership of the client’s website, I am obliged to invoice them more than what webflow invoices because I have to pay taxes on my turnover.

Thank you for the time you will give me.

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Hello @Pablo_Letellier, welcome to the community!

You don’t have to pay for the first month in order to transfer the site to your client. This depends on what type of Workspace you have with Webflow, but typically if you are transferring a site to a client, the client has to pay for hosting on his/her own Workspace. Alternatively you could keep the site on your Workspace and use, the newly restored, Client Billing feature to charge your client for hosting directly. Now the best way to work with clients without worrying about this transferring and billing issues, is to request access to your client’s Workspace, that way you can just access their Workspace and do your work and they will take care of the rest. I hope this helps!

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To add to @Pablo_Cortes notes;

Today, most designers either;

  1. host the client site in their own workspace, and bill the client for hosting+taxes+maintenance.
  2. transfer the site to a client-owned workspace and setup hosting there, and

Scenario 1 can be done on a free workspace plan, but you’d need to establish a site plan as soon as you surpass the free-plan limits ( 2 static pages, etc. ).

Scenario 2 requires you to maintain at least a Freelancer workspace plan for as long as you want access to the client workspace ( or else do a shared login or something ).

If you’re a freelancer who build sites for people, definitely get a Freelancer workspace plan, it gives you flexibility.

If you’re building only one site ever, I’d create a separate workspace for the client, move it there, and then give them the login once they need to add hosting. That will happen fairly soon if the workspace plan is free, due to the design limits in free plans.

In the near future, Webflow is adding;

  • Client billing, where you can keep the site in your workspace but have the hosting billed to their credit card directly
  • Seamless transfers, where you can transfer a site and its hosting plan to a client workspace, with no interruption
  • Project payments… not sure what this will entail, but it’s likely the ability to “add on” an amount to monthly client billing for ongoing support and update purposes.
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