Sample Project Agreements

Below are some sample Project Agreements for your reference. These samples just act as a common framework for reference only. Your Project Agreement should be built up at your own judgment to match your specific project.

  1. Sample One milestone project: Fix bugs in Virtuemart
  2. Sample Multi-milestone project: Standard Joomla template Design
  3. Sample Multi-milestone project: Building small furniture shop from scratch using Joomla CMS

Sample 1:

Project title:Fix bugs in Virtuemart
Description:A. Scope of work 1. Fix bugs in Virtuemart plugin Vmcchk parameter was still showing in URL (did not harm, just showing) Categories were not always properly translated when using Sort by feature (static $tree must be indexed on $mosConfig_lang)   B. General terms 2. Date of delivery Within 24 hours since approval of Project agreement 3. Installation Freelancer updates fixed edition to Buyer’s live site C. Payment terms 4. Payment method 100% bid amount via Safe Escrow Payment on Joomlancers 5. Payment schedule One milestone: escrow released after Buyer approves deliverables. D. Materials 6. Materials Buyer will furnish FTP account

Sample 2:

Project title:Standard Joomla template Design
Description:A. Specification 1. The number of templates: 01   Layout 2. Detailed layout with description on modules styles and positions As per drafted layout Buyer provided (Note: User 1, user 2, user 3 be displayed at different positions)   Color themes 3. Numbers of Color themes 01 4. Detailed color theme Overall color: lightly colored – a blue -colored feel of www.yahoo.com 
Background color: Soft, neutral
Other elements: at Freelancer’s discretion to match the overall style.   Features 5. Joomla version compatibility Joomla! 1.0.10 6. W3C standard compliance CSS: Yes – xHTML: Yes 7. Browsers compliance Firefox 1.5.x – IE 6.x.x – Nescape 8.0.x   The number of modules, components the template works with All default joomla modules and components   B. General terms 8. Date of delivery 15 Aug. 2006 (i.e 7 days after bidding end) 9. Draft 2 drafts.
– First draft: 3 days after adding escrow
– Second draft: 2 days after first draft 10. Progress reports Every two working days via email 11. Installation Buyer  manages themselves C. Payment terms 12. Payment method 100% bid amount via Safe Escrow Payment on Joomlancers 13. Payment schedule Released as per milestones: USD200: after Buyer receives first draft USD200: after Buyer receives second drafts USD200: after Buyer receives final deliverables D. Materials 13. Materials Buyer will furnish Logo in .PSD format
Banner in .PSD format
Drafted layout in JPG format

Sample 3:

Project title:Building small furniture shop from scratch using Joomla CMS
Description:A. Scope of work   A.1 Graphic Features   Layout 1. General theme: – Customize JoomLart template JA Rochea
– Detailed module positions: as per drafted layout Buyer provided
– Default resolution: 1024 x 768
– Default font size is bigger with default color “blue”
– Default color: green 2. Specific requirements – Horizontal menu: Replace background buttons. The buttons look like navigation of www.yahoo.com
– Ajax headline: refresh images every 2 seconds
– User 4: use glassy small icon
– Spotline module: add links + text + icon
– Main body: use light silver background color.
– Left and right modules: use transparent furniture photos as background. l
– Footer: sitename + glassy small icons (RSS, CSS, XHTML)   A.2 Functional Features 3. Default Joomla modules Login, Statistic, Poll, Search 4. Customized Joomla module Search:
– Quick search: keyword
– Advance search: Location + Manufacturer + Category 5. Integrated module Mosets Tree:
– Mosets Tree main menu: links to main categories in the directory.
– Main content of the directory: shows all top level and second level categories plus listings
– Enable features: Rating system, User reviews, Recommend to friend   A.3 Platform Requirements 6. Joomla version compatibility Joomla! 1.0.10 7. W3C standard compliance CSS: Yes – xHTML: Yes 8. Browsers compliance Firefox 1.5.x – IE 6.x.x – Nescape 8.0.x   B. General terms 9. Date of delivery Ready-to-run on 15 Aug. 2006 (i.e 9 days after bidding end) at Buyer’s server 10. Draft 3 drafts.
– First draft: 3 days after adding escrow
– Second draft: 3 days after first draft
– Third draft: 2 days after second draft 11. Progress reports Every two working days via email 12. Installation Freelancer completes installation at Buyer’s server 13. Support and fix bugs Free support within thirty days since final delivery. C. Payment terms 14. Payment method 100% bid amount via Safe Escrow Payment on Joomlancers 15 Payment schedule Released as per milestones: USD200: after Buyer receives first draft USD200: after Buyer receives second drafts USD200: after Buyer receives third deliverables USD200: after Buyer receives final deliverables D. Materials 16. Materials Buyer will furnish Logo in .PSD format
Banner in .PSD format
Drafted layout in JPG format
Mosets tree component
FTP account