What Is a Revision Round?
A revision round is one consolidated batch of client-requested changes to an approved deliverable; standard contracts include 2 rounds, with additional rounds billed at $75–$200 each or hourly.
How revision round works
A revision round is one consolidated batch of client-requested changes to an approved deliverable, and standard contracts include 2 rounds before additional rounds bill at $75 to $200 each or at your hourly rate. The word "consolidated" carries the weight. One round equals one feedback document, not 12 separate emails arriving over three days. You collect all the client's comments, apply them together, and resubmit. This caps the back-and-forth and protects your effective hourly rate from death by a thousand tweaks. Revision rounds apply only after delivery of work that meets the agreed scope. They cover refinement, not redirection. Changing a headline color is a revision; changing the entire campaign direction is a new project or a change order. You define this boundary in your contract so a client cannot reframe a rewrite as a "small edit." The practical pricing implication is direct: cap your included rounds at 2 and price each additional round at a flat $75 to $200, or bill it hourly at your standard rate. Charging for extra rounds does two things at once. It recovers the real cost of unplanned labor, and it changes client behavior, because clients who pay per round consolidate their feedback and stop nitpicking. Freelancers who offer unlimited revisions routinely watch a $2,000 project collapse to a $40 effective hourly rate. Two rounds plus paid overflow keeps the project profitable and the timeline finite.
Example
Logo design with 2 included rounds
A freelance designer charges a $2,000 project fee for a logo, with 2 revision rounds included. She delivers three concepts. Round 1: the client requests a different font and a tighter icon. Round 2: the client asks to darken the blue and adjust spacing. Both rounds are covered by the $2,000 fee. After approval, the client returns wanting to test two new color schemes and a horizontal layout variation. This is a third round, billed at her flat rate of $150. The client then requests a fourth round to tweak the new variations, another $150. Total invoice: $2,000 + $150 + $150 = $2,300. Had she offered unlimited revisions, those final two rounds would have added roughly 5 unpaid hours, dropping her effective rate on the project from about $80/hour to $62/hour. The flat per-round fee recovered $300 and prompted the client to finalize feedback faster.
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