What is the best way to pay independant contractors of my new web development company?
Seems to be a pretty good consensus here about most of the issues. Really, I would say the best advice is simply to have a clearly agreed upon contract with all of your subcontractors. As long as everyone knows in advance what’s happening and it OK with it, you can choose the business practices that you’re most comfortable with. According to industry standards, subcontractors should be paid for all of their work (not just what the client chooses) and paid in a timely fashion regardless of what your arrangement with the client is. I wasn’t clear from your question, but I would definitely recommend against sending the same design brief to multiple subcontractors. I would say pick one and if the client doesn’t like the comps, then you can pay that designer for their time and try someone else. Putting your subcontractors in competition with each other seems like an unwise business practice. If I were creating this kind of setup, I would try to make a decision about the designer before you
