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Getting bigger pays off: fees for clients and new Terms & Conditions

Submitted by Your12designerTeam on 15.05.10, 11:00

Yup, that's right. There's always a point in life where you have to grow up and start taking things seriously. After a year online, being there for free, we have to step forward and show to the world that access to a valuable creative community worths a little spending.

We've thought quite for a long time about this. We're getting bigger every day. Not long ago, we always addressed to you as “designers". Because that’s how we started: just as a creative-crowdsourced, design-oriented platform. A small team of enthusiasts with an idea: to make possible design projects in a resolutive and creative way. We slowly started growing without noticing it, we wided our categories in order to a growing demand, and from just a few we went to thousands of users. Of course, that has been wonderful: equally wonderful and “issue-ful” ;-)

That’s why we’ve been working for many weeks in the shadows: to restructure our site and to introduce you a totally renewed 12designer, with even more features and guarantees for everyone. 

Big news are:

Fees

* From today onwards, 12designer adopts a fee-payment structure for publishing a project, which will be paid by clients. Publishing a 12plus project (with unlimited participation) will be subject to a 24€ net fee, and making it private, a 12€ supplement. With this proceeding we strive to assure absolute professionalism within the platform.

* Limited participation projects (known as 12basic from now on) will still be free of payment, but won’t be possible to guarantee them.

* We regulated clearly how it works after choosing a winner: now, client will have 7 days to send to the creative his adjustments (if any) that lead to the final design, and creative will have 7 days to work it out. Once final archives are ready, you’ll have to upload them to the “Project Administration” section of 12designer, and then send the invoice, which will be subject to payment from that moment onwards. So will the final process of uploading final archives and paying the invoice speed up. But, hey, be careful: in case of a creative ignoring those corrections, client will be entitled to reduce the project prize down to a 50% less.

* In short, Design Jury will be implemented too in French and Italian (such a great work from German and Spanish teams left us no other option... ;-) )

* And a scoop: we’re working our next big thing out, a new project type, 12premium. There may only take part 12designer’s best and most experienced creatives. We will generate a complicated algorithm that will measure each variable to categorize each user, so don’t get crazy submitting 50 proposals by project and wait our news ;-)

Therefore, we warmly recommend you to read carefully and print out our renewed Terms & Conditions, because, as long as legal points have changed, you have to read and accept them, and you have the right of cancelling your account -as stated legally- in case of disagreement, what we hope won't happen ;-) : all this work is implemented to ensure our common future, and to make sure that everybody behaves profesionally in the platform.

What do you reckon? Love it, or we're nuts? We're waiting to hear your feedback and suggestions, or criticism, or... :)

 

Yours faith-fee-ly,

Your 12designer Team

 

Discussion

Great deals - sign me up!
wall art
22.09.11, 13:10
Hi Dsign,

erm, no, we didn't mean that ;-) At a 12premium project, there will be a "selection" (if it could be called so), that will -probably- rank our users. With this idea, maybe 50% of creatives may take part: among them, creatives who won already a project, or best valued creatives, or... we're still working on it. It's something that will come in the next months, not now; and we will talk openly about all details ;)
17.05.10, 12:12
Hello! I have a question concerning 12premium type.
If I've understood you right, there only twelve designers (according to the results of measurement with your algorithm) will be able to participate in. But rating is a variable, so theoretically, it's possible that someone's rating could come lower then level requested while project going. What happens then?
Thanks in advance,
Alexander
15.05.10, 23:12