Revision rounds
The capped number of feedback-and-fix cycles your price covers, so 'just one more tweak' has an agreed stopping point.
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What it is
A revision round is one complete cycle: you deliver, the client sends consolidated feedback, you make the changes, you deliver again. The contract caps how many of those the fee covers, usually two or three. The cap is not about being stingy. It converts an open-ended stream of 'can we just try it in blue' into a countable unit that both sides can see, and it gives you a clean, unawkward moment to say the next one is billable.
The definition does the work, not the number. Write that a round means one consolidated set of feedback from the named approver, delivered within a stated window (say 5 business days), and that contradictory notes from different stakeholders count as one round only if they arrive together and already reconciled. Also state what a round is not: a new direction, a new page, or a brief change is a change order, not a revision.
The trap is drip-feed feedback. Three people emailing you separately over two weeks will burn your entire allowance without anyone feeling like they asked for much. Require feedback in one document or one thread, and stamp each delivery with 'this is round 1 of 2' so the count is never a surprise you spring on them at the end.
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Draft a revision rounds clause for a freelance design contract. Specify: two included rounds; a round is defined as one consolidated written set of feedback from the named approver, submitted within 5 business days of delivery, plus my resulting revisions; feedback arriving in separate messages from multiple stakeholders is consolidated by the client before submission; work that changes the agreed direction, adds deliverables, or contradicts a previously approved decision is handled as a change order, not a revision; additional rounds are billed at a stated hourly rate in half-hour increments with written approval before work starts; unused rounds expire 10 business days after final delivery and are not refundable. Write it in plain English a non-lawyer client can read without flinching, then add a short client-facing paragraph explaining why the cap exists.