The file left. The ping did not.
In 2026 the Slack after a ship is still “can you watch it for a week,” “just the bugs,” or “warranty, right?” Nobody reopened the brief. Nobody reserved next month. The site, film, or pack already left. The quote ended at delivery. What they want now is typed hours after that ship — patches, copy nits, a button that broke in Safari. Bill that clock at the hourly floor sitting on the hub — yearly keep, billable-week count, and any tax slice you entered over there. This page does not copy that tax slice, and it is not a 50-state filing table. $720 is 8 × 90 with a dollar sign so it is readable. Need a different currency on the invoice? Change it on the hub. If $90 is still a guess, begin on how to set a freelance rate.
Post-launch extra = hours you type × hourly floor. Count the sitting: first bug ticket to hang-up. Eight hours is 8 because you typed 8, not because this page minted a free warranty week or a 10% slice of the original quote. Sixteen hours is 16. Clear the 8 if the after-ship pile is a day. The product follows what you typed. This card will not invent “30 days complimentary,” “support is 10% of the project,” or an industry warranty package.
Worked USD: 8h × $90 = $720
Preset: 8 hours after ship. Floor $90. Extra: 8 × $90 = $720.
That $720 is you on bugs and tweaks after the delivery already left. It is not a month of reserved capacity. It is not a ringer left up in case they page. It is not a frozen brief. It is not a cancel. It is not extra screens while the job is still live. Collect it before you open the ticket pile. Do not wait for “the project already covered a warranty.” This page never put a week of fixes inside that closed quote.
Second preset: 16 hours after ship, same $90. Extra: 16 × $90 = $1,440. You typed the 16. This page did not. A thicker after-ship pile is still hours × floor, still billed because the quote ended at delivery, still not 30 days free and still not 10% of anything.
You were going to eat the week of fixes
Third preset: still 8h at $90. Extra is still $720. Eating the week does not make you easy to hire. It trains the next “it is still under warranty.” Name the extra or give those hours away on purpose — do not pretend a week of post-ship bugs was already inside a quote that ended when the file left.
Five neighboring clocks this card is not
They did not buy reserved capacity going forward. A monthly block of hours they can spend — included hours × this floor, plus an unused-hours buffer you type so idle calendar still pays — lives on the freelance retainer. That product is next month, on tap. This product is last week’s ship, plus typed hours for bugs. Do not hide a week of patches inside “we’ll just start a retainer,” and do not treat 20 included hours as a free warranty on a job that already closed. If they want you on tap every month, price the retainer there. If they want typed hours after this ship, stay here.
They did not ask you to leave the ringer up. Availability extra — days on call × hours of window you type × this floor × a share you type, plus actual call-out hours at the full floor — lives on the on-call card. Default 0.25 there is a quarter-rate example on a span that may stay silent, not 1.5×, not employment overtime. A silent phone is not a bug ticket. A bug ticket is labor after ship, billed at the floor, not at an availability share. Do not paste a reachable-window onto “watch the launch for a week,” and do not treat eight hours of patches as a silent on-call night. Window and share there. Typed hours after ship here.
They did not freeze a live job. A pause whose Tuesdays stay empty so they can restart — weeks × hours/week you would have billed × this floor × a keep-share you type — lives on pause-hold. Default 0.5 there is a half-keep example, not a 50% kill-vs-pause rule. A hold empties production slots on a job that is still alive. Post-launch starts after the job already shipped. Do not paste a hold onto a closed delivery, and do not treat after-ship bugs as a pause.
They did not cancel. Hours already worked versus the deposit already paid — keep, then the unpaid gap — lives on the kill-fee card. A cancel is a dead job. This card is a finished job plus a new pile of typed hours. Do not hide post-ship patches inside a kill sentence, and do not treat a week of fixes as a walk-away.
They did not add new scope while the job was still live. Extra hours they just asked for × this floor, new total = original quote + that product, lives on the change-order card. That ping lands mid-job: extra screens, extra round, same Friday. This ping lands after delivery: the quote already ended, and they still want bugs and tweaks. Do not launder after-ship hours into a live change order, and do not treat extra screens during the build as a warranty week. Mid-job extras there. After-ship hours here.
30 days free and 10% of the project are not on this card
A warranty blog will tell you to throw in 30 days of complimentary fixes, or to paste 10% of the original quote as a support slice. Neither number is a law, a tax table, or what this card computes. Eight hours at $90 is $720 because you typed 8 and 90. There is no official freelance post-launch percent here. There is no statutory 30-day warranty for contractors. Type 0 hours if you are giving the week away on purpose. Type the hours you will actually sit with the tickets if you are not. The card multiplies what you typed.
Hours 8, floor $90 → extra $720. Hours 0, same floor → extra $0 — you ate the week on purpose. Hours 16, same floor → extra $1,440. The hours are yours. Not a free month. Not 10% of the job.
Paste the line before you open the tickets
Name the hours you typed. Name the floor. Name $720 (or the product on the card). Name that the quote ended at delivery. Copy from the card so the dollars match. If $90 is still a guess, rebuild it on how to set a freelance rate first.
- 8h × $90. The quote ended at delivery. 8 hours after ship for bugs and tweaks at my $90.00/hr floor is $720.00. That is not a 30-day free warranty and not 10% of the project. Please confirm that post-launch extra before I open the tickets.
- 16h after ship. The quote ended at delivery. 16 hours after ship for bugs and tweaks at my $90.00/hr floor is $1,440.00. That is not a 30-day free warranty and not 10% of the project. Please confirm that post-launch extra before I open the tickets.
- Eat the week. The quote ended at delivery. 8 hours after ship for bugs and tweaks at my $90.00/hr floor is $720.00. If I eat the week of fixes, I still spend the 8 hours and I give away $720.00. That is not free. Please confirm $720.00 before I open the tickets.
Skip guilt, fake scarcity, and “everyone includes a warranty.” Those lines turn a closed quote into a lecture. There is no official 30-day complimentary window on this page, and no 10% support slice. If they will not confirm, do not open the pile. The original quote still ended at delivery. If the ask is actually reserved hours going forward, leave this card and use the retainer. If the ask is a reachable window, use on-call. If they paused a live job, use pause-hold. If they cancelled, use kill-fee. If they added scope while the job was still live, use change-order. If the $90 floor moved, go back to the hub and rebuild it before you name the week.
Planning math, not a warranty statute
Educational only — not legal, tax, or collections advice. We do not invent a required 30-day free warranty, a statutory 10% of the project, a complimentary bug week, marketplace support calendars, or a 50-state tax engine. Use the agreement you already have. A warranty a court will enforce is something a lawyer where you work drafts before you ship. Filling this card does not write that clause.
Inputs: hours you type after ship, hourly floor. Outputs: hours after ship, post-launch extra, one pasteable sentence. Dollars on this page; live currency and the tax slice live on the hub.
Rate calculator Reserved hours going forward Reachable even if silent New scope on a live job Set the hourly floor
If your billable-week count moved, set the hourly floor again on the hub before you price the week of fixes. Typed hours after a quote that already ended at delivery are named here — hours you type × floor, not 30 days free, not 10% of the project. Reserved capacity going forward lives on the retainer. A reachable window plus call-outs lives on on-call. Extra screens while the job is still live live on change-order. Still guessing at the floor? Start on how to set a freelance rate.
FAQ
How do I charge freelance post-launch hours after the quote already ended at delivery?
Post-launch extra is hours you type × your hourly floor. The quote ended when you shipped. Bugs, tweaks, and a week of fixes after that ship are typed hours on top of a closed delivery. Planning math, not a contract.
Is freelance post-launch 30 days free or 10% of the project?
Not on this page. There is no 30-day complimentary warranty here and no official 10% of the project as a support slice. 8 hours × a $90 floor is $720 because you typed 8 and 90. This card will not invent a free month after ship or a percent of the original quote.
Is post-launch the same as a retainer, on-call, pause-hold, kill-fee, or change-order?
No. A retainer is reserved capacity going forward — monthly included hours they can spend. On-call is an availability window plus actual call-outs, ringer up even if silent. Pause-hold is a live job they froze while slots stay blocked. A kill-fee is after they cancel: hours already worked versus the deposit. A change-order is new scope during a live job. This card is after ship: the quote already ended at delivery, and they still want typed hours for bugs and tweaks.
What if I was going to eat a week of post-launch fixes for free?
Eating the week still spends the hours you type. 8 hours × a $90 floor is still $720. Naming that extra is not a fight. Unpaid post-ship bugs train the next “it is still under warranty.”
Is this post-launch math a warranty statute, a 50-state tax engine, or a contract?
No. Educational planning only — not legal, tax, or collections advice. Dollar marks so 8 × $90 is readable. Currency and tax buffer live on the hub. This page is not a 50-state tax engine and does not write a warranty clause.