How do milestone payments work?

We break the project into milestones during scoping, each tied to a specific, demonstrable piece of work rather than an arbitrary date on a calendar: discovery and design sign-off, core build complete on staging, integrations and testing complete, launch, that kind of structure.

Each milestone carries a payment, invoiced once it’s delivered and reviewed, not before. A typical structure is a deposit to begin, often in the 20 to 30 percent range, with the remainder spread across the following milestones and a final payment due at launch. For fixed-price work this also caps your risk: you’re never paying for more than what’s actually been delivered and accepted, and we’re never carrying the full cost of a large build with nothing paid until the very end.

For hourly or retainer work it’s simpler: invoiced monthly against logged hours, with time tracking you can actually see rather than a single total at the end of the month.