A fixed price starts with a clear scope.
You need to know what the project will cost before committing. A useful quote must make the deliverable just as clear as the price.
Know what the price buys
Cybercube offers fixed prices for an agreed scope. The purpose is to give you a clear commitment for the work you approve, rather than an open-ended bill for development hours.
That commitment needs a concrete description of the finished result. “A customer portal” is too broad. “Customers can view their own orders, submit a repeat order, and receive confirmation when the existing order system accepts it” is a starting point that can be reviewed and tested.
Early budget discussions help decide whether a project is worth exploring. They should be identified as preliminary until the scope and dependencies are understood and a fixed-price proposal is agreed.
Define completion in ordinary language
A useful proposal connects each deliverable to a result someone can check. For an illustrative reorder portal, acceptance criteria might cover customer-specific prices, unavailable items, duplicate submissions, and a failed connection to the stock system.
Review these points before approving the work:
- Included workflows: the people, screens, records, and actions the release supports.
- Acceptance criteria: what must work, including common exceptions.
- Dependencies: access, sample data, third-party systems, and decisions you need to provide.
- Deliverables: the agreed design, implementation, testing, deployment, and handover work.
- Exclusions and running costs: anything outside the build price, including hosting or external subscriptions where applicable.
Payment milestones and the acceptance process belong in the agreement too. A fixed number with an ambiguous deliverable gives neither side a useful plan.
Resolve uncertainty before committing to it
An integration described in a brochure may not support the records your business actually needs. Check access, permitted operations, data quality, and failure behavior early. If a limited discovery or technical trial is needed, agree its scope and price separately before proceeding.
Fixed pricing does not remove technical investigation. It makes the boundary of the commitment especially important. The project agreement should distinguish a defect against agreed requirements from a request to add or change functionality.
New ideas can still be useful. Record the proposed change, its effect on price and delivery, and get agreement before adding it. You can also defer it to a later release. A new request should never quietly turn into an unexpected invoice.
Compare the whole commitment
When comparing proposals, check whether they include the same migration, testing, launch, and handover responsibilities. A lower headline price may cover less work. Compare ongoing costs separately from the fixed build price.
Cybercube's approach is to make the first deliverable specific enough to agree and useful enough to stand on its own. Bring us the workflow you want to improve, or use Before you build to clarify the problem first. The next step is a scope you can review and a fixed price for that scope.