You have a conversation with your client that there will be an annual maintenance charge and then bill them before your bill is due.
Definitely a convo to have before agreeing to work.
Also, make sure they have a license for the plugins as they need full control plus they can claim these as a business expense.
It’s in their interest to purchase any licenses themselves.
Client buys the paid product to use.
Unless the product is specifically licensed for dev to build with and hand off, which I don’t think is super typical in WP space.
Our agency buys these plugins and themes on the “unlimited sites” per year plans. We just keep paying the renewal fees, and the client obviously benefits from that, even if they are no longer on our maintenance plan. But if a client chooses to end our maintenance plan, they are informed that these certain components “may” end up being removed from their sites at some point in the future, though so far, we’ve not had to do that.
Hey I am a website Developer Currently working in an agency, if the plugin is more like a general use, Like a page builder or a Theme , Our agency buys that and then provide that to client and its always free for him.
if the plugin is specific and out of the scope, then Client buys that plugin and then provides us the access.
You have a conversation with your client that there will be an annual maintenance charge and then bill them before your bill is due.
Definitely a convo to have before agreeing to work.
Also, make sure they have a license for the plugins as they need full control plus they can claim these as a business expense.
It’s in their interest to purchase any licenses themselves.
Client buys the paid product to use.
Unless the product is specifically licensed for dev to build with and hand off, which I don’t think is super typical in WP space.
Our agency buys these plugins and themes on the “unlimited sites” per year plans. We just keep paying the renewal fees, and the client obviously benefits from that, even if they are no longer on our maintenance plan. But if a client chooses to end our maintenance plan, they are informed that these certain components “may” end up being removed from their sites at some point in the future, though so far, we’ve not had to do that.
Hey I am a website Developer Currently working in an agency, if the plugin is more like a general use, Like a page builder or a Theme , Our agency buys that and then provide that to client and its always free for him.
if the plugin is specific and out of the scope, then Client buys that plugin and then provides us the access.
This is how things go around at my end 🙂