The dog walker dream - Charging a flat monthly fee.

I know of a few daycares who charge a flat monthly fee for their services. You pay a set amount and you are promised x amount of walks, x amount of daycare time, etc. My dream is to be able to charge a set monthly fee and here are some of the benefits I see to it:

* You can schedule your spending around a budget

* Your employees can schedule their spending around a budget

* You will save at least 100 hours a year if not more in time not spent doing billing (and how much is 100 hours worth to you? Thousands of dollars!)

* Your clients will like knowing what their bills will be ahead of time so there are no surprises.

Of course some clients will balk at a flat fee especially while most of the country is still in a recession. But I do feel there is a lot of power to this idea and it would make all of our lives so much easier!

This post isn't meant to layout a solution to this billing method, just to raise the idea. I'll write another post in the future to try and address what I feel it would take to pull it off, thanks!

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