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Scope

Write down what the project includes, and what it does not. Your client sees both lists in the portal, so you agree on the edges before anyone has to argue about them.

The Scope card on a project's Delivery tab, with a What's included list and a What's not included list
The Scope card. Included items have a green tick; excluded items a red cross.

How to

  1. Open the project and choose the Delivery tab.
  2. In the Scope card, open Add a scope item.
  3. Type the item, for example "Five-page website" or "Copywriting".
  4. Under Included?, choose What's included or What's NOT included.
  5. Click Add scope item. It appears in the matching list.

Two lists

What's included is the work you have agreed to do. What's not included is the work you have agreed not to do, unless it is quoted separately. Short, plain items work best: one thing per line.

To remove an item, click the cross beside it. It is removed straight away, with no confirmation. To move an item from one list to the other, remove it and add it again with the other choice.

Example

Included
  ✓ Five-page website
  ✓ Two rounds of revisions
  ✓ Basic on-page SEO

Not included
  ✗ Copywriting
  ✗ Hosting and domain

What your client sees

When the project has any scope items, the portal shows a Scope card with the same two lists side by side. The client can read them but cannot change them.

If a project has no scope items at all, the card is left out of the portal.

Scope from a proposal

If the project was created from an accepted proposal, its scope is filled in for you from the proposal's scope section. Each line becomes an item. A line that starts with "- ", or that mentions "not included" or "out of scope", goes into What's not included. Everything else goes into What's included.

Check the scope after a proposal converts. Lines are split exactly as they were written, so a heading or a stray line in the proposal can turn into an item you will want to remove. See Turn a proposal into a project.

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