Contract Clause Library
Revision limit clause
Caps the number of feedback-and-revision rounds included in the fee before additional rounds are billed separately.
Creative and design work in particular can absorb unlimited revision cycles if there's no stated cap, since "just one more small change" is easy to ask for and hard to refuse. This clause sets a specific number of included revision rounds per deliverable and states what happens (usually an hourly or per-round fee) once that limit is exceeded.
Sample wording
Sample language (illustrative, not legal advice)
Each deliverable includes up to 2 rounds of revisions based on consolidated feedback. Additional revision rounds beyond the included 2 will be billed at Vendor's standard hourly rate, with Client's approval obtained before additional revision work begins.
Red flags
- "Round" left undefined — does a single follow-up email asking for one more small tweak count as a full round, or not?
- No requirement to consolidate feedback, allowing revisions to trickle in indefinitely rather than in discrete, countable rounds
- No stated fee or approval process for revisions beyond the included limit, making the cap unenforceable in practice
How MarginFlow reads it
MarginFlow counts revision requests detected in email against this clause's stated limit per deliverable, flagging the moment a client crosses from included revisions into billable additional-round territory — one of the more common sources of quietly-absorbed scope creep this product targets directly.