Web maintainence charge?

How much would you charge for maintaining a basic company website that you have designed?

This depends on many things, the complexity of the maintenence, the length of time needed, and how much you believe your time is worth.
I am no expert in this field but I guess you could ask for a set rate for the maintenence, maybe $50 once a month, or however much it needs to be done.

If its $50/month I hope you're only needing to do a couple hours of work that month though.

I would probably charge hourly, however -- cheap clients would definately prefer paying monthly, especially if they want to milk a lot of free work out of you... Hell if your charging $50+/hour then maintenance would get expensive for sure.

Im curious what other people charge as well.. I was thinking of maybe charging a couple hundred bucks a month for clients who need smallscale routine maintenance done but im not sure how well it would work, especially if they ended up asking for 30 hours of work, then I definately screwed myself...

I used to be friends with a guy that charged, either it was $200 a month or $200 a week. For this he had designed the site and also managed it, which would be the same thing as maintanance. He updated their site and made sure everything worked.

I charge £35 (UK) per hour which converts to about 60USD.

Most of the sites I've built are product catalogue sites (non e-commerce) so the changes are usually only price adjustments, sometimes I need to add or remove a product but that's about all.

I believe honesty is the best policy, so for smaller changes I charge £20 for half the hour.

I've never charged my customers a monthly fee, I just send a polite email every so often asking them if they need any updating work carried out (they usually do).

Fixed rates are $75-$100, this includes very minor site changes and very minimal time spent correcting, adding or removing text.

It does not include site amends (structure, additional pages etc)

Hourly rate is $100 for site amends or sometimes clients want to go with the hourly rate.

Sometimes a client on the fixed rate gets more than their worth some months and sometimes they dont. It all balances out in the end though.

Most of my work is done for independent bands, so I generally do maintenence for really cheap, payment based on drinks at shows and free t-shirts.

I'd avoid using my business model unless you have a 'day job' to pay the bills.

How much would you charge for maintaining a basic company website that you have designed?

It depends on the type of maintenance you're talking about. If the site was very complicated, and included a mysql backend and needed updates to the php or what not then I would probably charge on a per hour basis.

$50 as mentioned in this thread a month would only apply to something very trivial, such as updating text content on a few pages, uploading a new banner or change a link here and there.

I would personally charge per hour, probably around £15, $30. Otherwise you could be taken for a ride with the amount of work the owners get you to do!

Do you guys offer this as a service listed on your company website or so you just wait until someone says they need maintenance?

I include it as an option in the contract. I consider it a service all by itself, so I don't offer it seperately.