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Hourly developers · Pay for the hours worked · USA and Canada
PromotEdge International lets businesses in the USA, Canada and other markets hire developers by the hour. You buy hours in blocks of 40 for your fixes, small features and support tasks, and the developer works in your tools, under your direction. Our delivery team is in India.
Development help when you need it, with no long lock-in for work that comes and goes.
In short
Hourly hiring suits work that comes in small, uneven pieces: a bug this week, a new form next month. You send the task, a developer from our team does it, and the time it took comes out of the hours you bought.
Small, clear tasks that your team can describe and check.
Broken pages, forms that stop sending, errors after an update.
A new page template, a field on a form, a change to how something works.
Plugin, theme and library updates, tested before they go live.
Lighter pages, fewer scripts and old code removed.
Connecting a form, CRM or payment tool to your site.
Extra hands while your own developer is away or busy.
Roles we staff by the hour: every role on our hire developers page, from React, Node.js, Python and PHP to WordPress, Shopify, design, testing and data.
Brands we have worked with
Work delivered from India. Results are shared one to one, under NDA.
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A rough note through the form on what you sell and what needs to change.
How people find you today, where inquiries get lost, then a call in your working day.
The work, who does it and how it is measured. Nothing starts until you approve it.
Our team in India does the work, with calls set in your working hours.
Every number we report shows its source and date range, and we travel to our clients every 3 to 4 months.
Typical situations, not results from a named client.
Small tasks grow when nobody watches the clock. An estimate before each task keeps it in check, and the block you bought is the cap unless you add hours in writing.
Explaining your site again for each task wastes hours. We try to keep the same developer on your work.
A task that is not clear turns into back-and-forth. We ask questions before starting, not after.
If hourly tasks fill most of the month, a dedicated developer usually costs less and knows your code better.
The rate, the overlap hours and how tasks are sent, in writing. Hours are bought in blocks of 40, with no long lock-in, and the first week is a paid trial on a real task.
Through your task board or by email, with what is wrong or what you want.
We say how long we expect it to take, and you approve it.
The developer does the task, a colleague reviews the code, and you check the result.
You are billed for the hours worked on the tasks you approved.
You see how many hours we expect before work starts, and we ask before going over.
Hours go into a shared weekly timesheet with notes for each task, and you approve it before we bill.
Work stops at the hours you bought for the month, unless you add more in writing.
Work happens in your repository under accounts you control. In the USA, a copyright transfer needs a signed writing, so the contract assigns the code and every deliverable to you once paid for. We keep no rights in it.
Your code and plans stay confidential, on your NDA template or ours.
You interview each developer and approve them before they start.
Your developer is online at least 4 hours a day inside US Eastern time, for questions and reviews.
Every developer passes four checks before you meet them: a technical test, a code review, a spoken interview in English and a reference check.
If a developer is not the right fit, we replace them within 10 business days at no extra cost.
Choose by how much work you have and how steady it is.
| Question | Hourly developer | Dedicated developer |
|---|---|---|
| Fits when | Work comes in small, uneven pieces | Work is steady, week after week |
| What you pay for | The hours worked, in blocks of 40 | About 160 hours a month, month to month |
| Same person each time | We aim for it | Yes |
| Watch out for | Tasks waiting when the block runs out | Paying for time when the backlog runs thin |
You buy hours in blocks of 40 and spend them on your tasks, month to month, with no long lock-in. It is the simplest way to start with us, and you can move to a dedicated developer if the work grows.
It works best when someone on your side can describe each task and check the result. For a whole project built to a fixed scope, see outsourced web development. All the ways to hire are on our hire developers page.
There is no public price list, because the cost follows the job.
You see the rate and the terms in writing before anything starts. Every engagement is covered by an NDA, and the contract assigns the code and every deliverable to you once paid for; we keep no rights in it.
Yes. You buy hours in blocks of 40 and use them on the tasks you approve, month to month, with no long lock-in.
One block of 40 hours, used on the tasks you approve. There is no long lock-in.
We aim to keep the same developer on your work, so you do not explain your site again for each task. If they are away, a colleague who can read the history steps in.
Every week you get a shared timesheet with the hours and a note for each task. You approve it before we bill.
When hourly tasks fill most of the month. A dedicated developer then usually costs less and knows your code better.
You do, once paid for, and the contract says so. We keep no rights in it. In the USA, a copyright transfer needs a signed writing, which is why we put it in the contract.
Yes. Part-time is 80 hours a month with the same developer, and full-time is about 160 hours a month. Both run month to month.
Yes. The first week is a paid trial on a real task from your backlog, so you can judge the developer before you go on.
Hourly work is bought in blocks of 40 hours; part-time is 80 hours a month and full-time about 160 hours a month, all month to month with no long lock-in. Every engagement is covered by an NDA, and the contract assigns the code and every deliverable to you once paid for; we keep no rights in it. You interview and approve every person before they start, and the first week is a paid trial on a real task. The people you hire are online at least 4 hours a day inside US Eastern time. If someone is not the right fit, we replace them within 10 business days at no extra cost. Every developer passes four checks: a technical test, a code review, a spoken interview in English and a reference check (for designers, a practical design test and a review of past work take the place of the first two). You get an estimate before work starts, hours go into a shared weekly timesheet that you approve before we bill, and the block you buy is your monthly cap unless you add hours in writing. Staff augmentation ends on 30 days' notice, with a handover.
Avijit Bhattacherjee, who leads our website coding team, front end and back end, oversees our developers. We are available round the clock, 24x7, as per your location, and we travel to our clients every 3 to 4 months.
A real person reads every message and replies.
Software developer hourly rates are quoted everywhere and explained almost nowhere. This guide starts from the public wage data for the USA and Canada, shows how a salary becomes a true hourly cost, lists what moves a contractor's or provider's rate up or down, and gives a way to compare quotes on what is inside them. It quotes no rate of ours, because ours depend on the work and are given in writing. It sits under our main guide on what staff augmentation is.
Four kinds of work. One plan.