Contents
  1. Pricing is your catalogue, set once
  2. Add a recurring item
  3. Name it, price it, tag it
  4. One-off items, for the things that happen once
  5. Your line items
  6. Packages bundle the items
  7. Build a package
  8. What your price actually is
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Set your pricing

Build the reusable items and packages you charge clients, and understand how your fee sits on top of what DiscoverWorthy charges.

6 min readA catalogue of priced items and at least one package, ready to attach the next time you bring a client on.
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    Pricing is your catalogue, set once

    Everything you charge a client is built here, on the Pricing page, and reused rather than retyped. You are not pricing a specific client on this screen — you are building the menu you price them from.

    Two things live here: line items, which are single charges, and packages, which are named bundles of line items. Start with the items; packages are just collections of them.

    It opens empty, and that is the honest starting point. Nothing is required before you can add a client — you can price as you go — but a few items set up now saves retyping them on every invitation.

    Open PricingThe Pricing page with empty Line Items and Packages tabs.
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    Add a recurring item

    Recurring is for anything billed every month — a management retainer, a subscription you pass through, an ongoing service. It is charged again on each billing cycle for as long as the client is with you.

    The dialog shows a few examples to anchor the idea. Give it a plain description and a monthly amount; that is all it needs.

    The Add Recurring Item dialog with a Recurring/One-off toggle, examples, description and amount.
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    Name it, price it, tag it

    Description and amount are the whole requirement. Advanced options adds a SKU and a category if you want them — the SKU is your own reference code, and the category is what the filter at the top of the list groups by once you have a few items.

    Neither is needed to save. They earn their keep once your catalogue grows enough that you want to find things in it.

    The recurring item dialog filled in with a description, a monthly amount, and advanced SKU and category fields.
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    One-off items, for the things that happen once

    Same dialog, other mode. A one-off is charged a single time and never repeats — a setup fee, a migration, an audit, a piece of project work.

    The distinction matters because it decides what happens next month. A recurring item keeps billing; a one-off bills once and is done. Pick the mode that matches how you actually charge for the thing.

    The Add One-Off Item dialog with one-off examples.
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    Your line items

    They stack up as a simple list — monthly and one-off marked with a badge, the amount alongside, your SKU and category if you added them.

    You can switch an item to Inactive rather than deleting it, which keeps it out of new invitations without losing the record of it. Edit and delete are on each row.

    The Line Items list with a recurring retainer, recurring social management, and a one-off audit.
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    Packages bundle the items

    A package is a named set of line items you attach in one go — so instead of adding three items to every new client, you add "Growth Plan" once and they all come with it.

    This is the tab most freelancers end up living in. Build the two or three packages that match how you actually sell, and onboarding a client becomes a single choice.

    The empty Packages tab with a Create Package button.
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    Build a package

    Give it a name and, if you like, a short description. Then add its items — you can type them straight in here, or they mirror the line items you already built.

    The percentage toggle beside each amount is for charges that scale with something rather than being a flat figure. Leave it off for a normal dollar amount.

    The Create Package dialog with a name, description and two line items with amounts.
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    What your price actually is

    Your packages sit ready to attach the next time you invite a client, the same way a single fee did in the earlier guides.

    Worth being clear about what this fee is: it is yours, and it sits on top of the DiscoverWorthy plan the client pays for separately. The client's total is your fee plus the plan; your take-home is your fee. Setting prices here is setting your margin — the plan cost underneath does not come out of it.

    That take-home only shows as a real number once a client is actually being billed, which is why a brand-new client reads zero. That is the money side, and it is the next thing to understand.

    A package or item is a template. Attaching it to a client copies its values onto that client, so editing the template later does not silently change what an existing client pays.

    The Packages list showing the newly created Growth Plan.
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