Pricing for website translation
Thread poster: Stella Pietri
Stella Pietri
Stella Pietri
United Kingdom
English to French
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Apr 9, 2021

Hello!

I've just started as a freelance translator and I have now my first potential client for a website translation. Trying to quote it but I'm at a bit of a loss, it is so difficult to find info on what you can charge... I mean, I know what I want to charge per word. I'm in discussion with the client at the moment, who's gonna get back to me after she's had a chat with her webmaster. So I don't know yet if I'm gonna work directly from the CMS or if they're gonna send me the html
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Hello!

I've just started as a freelance translator and I have now my first potential client for a website translation. Trying to quote it but I'm at a bit of a loss, it is so difficult to find info on what you can charge... I mean, I know what I want to charge per word. I'm in discussion with the client at the moment, who's gonna get back to me after she's had a chat with her webmaster. So I don't know yet if I'm gonna work directly from the CMS or if they're gonna send me the html file to translate.
I guess my question is: given that doing it from the CMS would take quite a bit more time, how much more would you charge for it? How to quote it?

Thanks a lot

Stella
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Gerard de Noord
Gerard de Noord  Identity Verified
France
Local time: 17:13
Member (2003)
English to Dutch
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Great website Apr 9, 2021

Judging by your website, I would charge between 12 and 15 cents per source word. Webmasters can always export and import texts to facilitate translation.

Cheers,
Gerard


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