They asked for another round. Here’s the rework fee.

The file already left. They want it back open.

A revision blog will tell you “two rounds are included, then 25% of the fee.” That is not a law, not in this card, and not how 2026 hours leave the week. The quote already named a number of passes. Those passes happened. They now want the same deliverable touched again — bigger type on the mark, another pass on the same layout, the same screens with different copy. That is rework of this file, not a new one.

Extra-round fee = hours this extra round will take × hourly floor. The hourly floor is the one you already built on the hub calculator. This page does not clone that tax buffer and does not run a 50-state tax engine. Labels here are USD so the arithmetic stays readable. Switch currency on the hub if you invoice in something else.

Included rounds are whatever YOUR quote already said

Type how many included rounds they already used. That number lives in the agreement you already sent — one, two, four, zero. This card will not invent a guild default, an “industry standard of 2,” or a percent of the original fee. Included rounds are a budgeted pass count they already bought. This card prices the next one.

If you type 0, they may still be inside the included set. Then this extra-round fee is not due yet. Change the used number to match the quote, not a blog.

Worked example: 3 hours × $80 after the included set

Preset: same file, 3 more hours. Included rounds already used 2 — because that is what this quote said, not because two is a rule. Floor $80. Hours this extra round 3. 3 × $80 = $240. That $240 is the rework fee for reopening the same deliverable. It is not added as a new page, a new feature, or a new quote total on this card. It is the next pass.

Second preset: make the logo bigger. Same used count. 2 hours × $80 = $160. A two-word Slack ping still opens the file, still rereads the last round, still exports. Eating it trains the next “one more look.”

Third preset: included rounds not used yet. Used 0. The product is still 3 × $80 = $240, but the card flags that this fee is not due while they are still inside the included set. Type the used number when those rounds are actually gone.

New screens are a change order. Same file stays here.

If they asked for another landing page, a new checkout flow, extra features that were never in the brief — that is extra NEW hours on a live quote. Price it on the change-order card: extra hours × floor, new project total = original quote + that product. Do not launder new scope into “one more revision.”

If they asked to make the logo bigger, shift the headline, or take another pass on the same file after the included rounds are used, stay on this page. Same deliverable. Different week of hours. The original quote already paid for the included set. This pass is new money at the floor.

If they did not ask to reopen the same 16:9 — they asked for a 9:16 Stories/Reels cut of a master they already bought — that is extra aspect ratios, not this extra-round fee. Hours you type × floor on the social-cuts card. Worked 4h × $90 = $360. Not $50 a cut. Not 20% of the video. Same-file rework after included rounds stays here. A new ratio of the master goes there.

If they did not ask to recut the same file — they asked for a separate color-grade pass after the quote was the edit — that is a look, not this extra-round fee. Hours you type × floor on the color-grade card. Worked 4h × $90 = $360. Not 20% of the edit. Not a per-minute mill. Same-file rework after included rounds stays here. Sitting on the wheels of a locked cut goes there. Hunting a colorist you don’t do sits on specialist.

If they did not ask for another pass after the included set — they added legal, brand, or a VP to a quote that assumed one decision-maker — that is extra people you type × hours per extra person you type × this floor on the extra-approvers card. 2 × 2h × $90 = $360. Hours per extra person are whatever you type; this hub will not invent a 2-hour-per-stakeholder rule. Same-file rework after included rounds stays here. Extra inboxes go there.

Nothing cancelled. Hours already worked vs a deposit is the kill-fee keep / unpaid gap. Do not paste a cancel sentence onto a revision ping.

There is still a live job. A $40 inbound tweak with no quote is the minimum-fee card — max(their offer, N hours × floor). If they already hired you and the file already exists, that card is the wrong door.

If the brief actually changed shape, stop counting extra rounds and rebuild on quote a project. If you do not trust the hourly number yet, set it on how to set a freelance rate — income, billable hours, tax buffer you set — then come back and type the hours for this pass.

Send the sentence before you reopen the file

Name the included rounds they already used. Name the hours this extra round will take. Name the dollars. Copy from the card so the numbers match.

• Same file, 3 more hours. The 2 included revision rounds in the quote are already used. Another pass on the same deliverable is 3 hours at my $80.00/hr floor = $240.00. Please confirm that extra-round fee before I reopen the file.
• Logo bigger. The 2 included revision rounds in the quote are already used. Another pass on the same deliverable is 2 hours at my $80.00/hr floor = $160.00. Please confirm that extra-round fee before I reopen the file.
• Included not used yet. No included rounds marked as used yet. If they still have unused included rounds, this extra-round fee is not due. After those are used, another pass on the same deliverable is 3 hours at my $80.00/hr floor = $240.00.

Skip guilt, fake scarcity, and “everyone includes two rounds.” Those lines turn a used-count into a lecture. If they will not confirm, do not reopen the file. The original quote still covers only the included set. If the ask is actually new screens, leave this card and use change-order. If there was never a job, use minimum-fee.

This is planning math, not a contract

Educational only — not legal, tax, or collections advice. We do not invent a required included-round count, a statutory rework percent, marketplace revision rules, or a 50-state tax engine. Confirm live terms in whatever agreement you already use. Typing numbers here does not create a revision clause and does not make a free pass out of a used set.

The math is: included rounds already used (from YOUR quote), hours this extra round will take, hourly floor, extra-round fee = hours × floor, one email-sized sentence. USD labels on this page; currency and tax buffer live on the hub.

Rate calculator New screens — change order 9:16 cutdowns, not this pass Look pass after the edit, not this recut Extra people on the chain Quote a project Tiny job, no live quote Set the hourly floor If they cancelled instead

Rebuild the floor on the hub if billable weeks moved. Another pass on the same file after the included set gets a name on this card. Extra aspect ratios of a master they already bought go to social-cuts. A separate look after the quote was the edit goes to color-grade — 4h × $90 = $360, not 20% of the edit, not a per-minute mill. New features go to change-order. Extra people on a one-signer quote go to extra-approvers. A cancel keeps hours vs deposit on kill-fee. A $40 inbound ping with no job still wants a minimum-fee max(). A real new brief still wants a project quote.

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