Reply To: Thoughts on design agencies using premium themes for clients

[shaneisme]

I would feel it’s perfectly acceptable if that’s what the client needs.

Figuring out what the client actually needs requires a lot of research and time spent iterating. You also need to know how much money the client can spend on their project.

If you want to do a full copper repipe, and the client can only afford the plastic pipe patch, you give them the plastic pipe patch.

I don’t think charging $2k for this is a problem, but that’s about what I would charge to do that myself. I wouldn’t just be setting up a site with a theme, I’d be helping them with the full spectrum of what they need to do to get a website up and running.