Unlimited Revisions on Fiverr: How to Cap the Requests

Why "until you’re satisfied" never ends

Open-ended revision obligations mean unbounded free labor. "Until Client is satisfied" sets a finish line that only the client can see, because satisfaction is subjective: there is no objective point where the work is done, no breach you can point to when round nine arrives, and no version of the project that is definitively finished. The project just never ends.

The economics are what hurt. Every round of changes consumes hours you could bill to the next client, and a promise of unlimited revisions prices those hours at zero forever. A $300 logo that takes eleven rounds is an $11-per-hour logo.

The cap that holds: rounds, window, price

One sentence carries the whole protection: "Includes up to 2 rounds of revisions requested within 14 days of delivery. Additional rounds are billed at the standard hourly rate."

Each part does a job. The round count (two is the number many freelancers quote; one to three is the common industry range) defines what the buyer already paid for. The 14-day request window stops revision requests from surfacing months later, after the project has mentally closed on both sides. The hourly rate for extra rounds keeps you flexible — the client can still ask for more, and you get paid for saying yes instead of resenting saying no.

• Rounds — what is included in the price the buyer already paid.
• Request window — how long after delivery the included rounds can be requested.
• Extra-round rate — what changes cost once the included rounds are used.

Replace "satisfied" with an objective test

Revision caps work best paired with an acceptance clause. Tying payment to the client’s "sole discretion" or "satisfaction" gives them a legal escape hatch to never pay — courts read pure subjectivity clauses against enforcement of your invoice. The buyer who can define "satisfied" can also define it as never reached.

The objective replacement turns silence into acceptance: "Deliverables are deemed accepted if Client provides no written objection within 7 calendar days of delivery." Now the project has two finish lines — the revision cap for changes, and the acceptance window for payment — and both are dates on a calendar instead of a feeling in the buyer’s head.

When the client sits on feedback

Revision rounds have a second failure mode: the client who takes three weeks to respond, then expects the same delivery date. Hard delivery dates with no extension for client-side feedback or asset delays make you breach through no fault of your own — the client controls the inputs, and you carry the liability.

The counter-wording shifts the deadline day-for-day: "Delivery dates shift day-for-day for delays in Client feedback, materials, or approvals beyond the stated response windows." A buyer who sits on feedback for ten days has moved your deadline by ten days, in writing, before the first revision request even lands.

Fiverr specifics: where the cap lives

On a marketplace, the gig description and the order requirements are your contract surface — the buyer reads them before ordering, and a written round count in both places sets expectations while the buyer is still deciding. State the number, state the window, and state that additional rounds are a new order or a custom offer. Ambiguity at ordering time becomes unlimited revisions at delivery time.

When the buyer asks for "one more small change" after the included rounds are used, the answer is a quotation rather than a refusal: name the round you are on, point to the gig terms they ordered against, and send the custom offer for the additional work. The message stays friendly, and the paper trail stays specific. Buyers who are told the price of round eleven before round eleven starts rarely need round twelve.

Already promised unlimited? The way out

For the order you are in now, the exit is the same quotation move — the promise bound this order, not your next one. Keep delivering the agreed scope professionally, and price anything beyond it. Concepts and drafts from the stalled engagement stay yours: ownership of unpaid concepts, drafts, and proposals remains with the contractor, and the client obtains rights only to deliverables paid in full.

Before the next order, put the cap in writing at the top of the gig description and in the order requirements — and if a client sends a direct contract instead of ordering through your gig, scan it. "Unlimited revisions" buried in a client’s own terms is one of the clauses the review engine flags in about 60 seconds, with the replacement wording attached.

The clauses behind this playbook