The message holds three separate asks. All three are out of scope, and none is unclear.

Ask 1: Coffee subscriptions, a bag every two weeks, live for Christmas

Out of scope. The agreement names subscriptions as excluded:

"Not included: Subscriptions. We can add them in January once you see how one-off orders go."

Best option: paid addition, $900 (12 hours at $75), built after the shop goes live in Week 3. Why: they want subscriptions for Christmas, and the January phase in the agreement would miss it. A swap doesn't fit, because nothing in scope comes close to 12 hours that they could drop and still have a working shop. Building it after launch keeps every agreed date, and still lets them see some orders come in first, which was the reason for waiting.

Ask 2: Swap the homepage photos for new ones they will send

Out of scope. The agreed work is the shop:

"What we will do: Add a small shop to your current site, selling 6 of your beans by the bag, using the Square account you already have."

This isn't unclear. The "full redesign" exclusion doesn't settle it, since a photo swap is much smaller than a redesign. What settles it is that the agreed work is the shop, and the homepage photos are not part of it.

Best option: paid addition, $75 (1 hour), done in Week 3. Why: it is too small to be worth a later phase, and the only in scope item of a similar size is the hour on taking and shipping orders, which they need far more than new photos.

Ask 3: Tidy up the text on the About page

Out of scope, settled by the same line:

"What we will do: Add a small shop to your current site, selling 6 of your beans by the bag, using the Square account you already have."

Not unclear, for the same reason: the About page is not part of the shop.

Best option: paid addition, $150 (2 hours), done in Week 3. Why: it is small, fits alongside the Week 3 changes, and there is nothing in scope they would want to give up for it. I've called it a rewrite in the note so it matches your estimate of 2 hours, even though they said "tidy up".

Together: 15 hours and $1,125, taking the fixed price from $2,400 to $3,525.

Two things to settle before you send: fill in the subscriptions date wherever it says [ask: ...]. If you can't get subscriptions live before Christmas, switch that ask to the January phase instead. I've also placed the photos and About text in Week 3 so no agreed date moves; if your Week 3 is already full, change that line in the email and the note.

Change to the Northwind Coffee proposal signed 2 October 2026

Added

1. Coffee subscriptions, so customers can get a bag every two weeks: $900 (about 12 hours)
2. Your new photos swapped onto the homepage: $75 (about 1 hour)
3. The About page text rewritten: $150 (about 2 hours)

Cost

$1,125 in total, taking the fixed price from $2,400 to $3,525.

Dates

The shop dates stay as agreed. The photos and About text are done in Week 3, alongside your changes to the shop. The photos go up once you send them, and the shop launch doesn't wait on them. Subscriptions are built once the shop is live and go live by [ask: what date before Christmas can subscriptions go live?].

Stays the same

Everything else in the proposal: 6 of your beans sold by the bag; orders, stock and payments kept in your Square account; nationwide shipping; the Week 1 to Week 4 timeline; and the one hour on taking and shipping orders in Week 4.

Reply "yes" to approve all three, or reply with the numbers you want if you'd like only some.