Enhancement Credits
What is an Enhancement Credit?
A standardized unit Craft uses to size and manage improvements to existing Craft-built infrastructure.
Definition
Credits represent the whole delivery — not a price tag.
Credits represent
Credits do not represent a fixed dollar value, and are not simply developer hours.
For planning purposes
1 Enhancement Credit ≈ 1–2 hours of total development capacity.
Why it's more than coding
Every production enhancement is a full delivery.
A developer may make a change quickly, but every enhancement also requires some combination of these steps. Craft sizes the entire delivery requirement. Tap a step.
Step 3 of 7
Implement
We make the approved change inside the existing Craft-built infrastructure.
Writing the code is only one part of a production-ready delivery.
How Craft assigns credits
Five factors shape every assessment.
01
Delivery effort
How much total work is required from request through verified deployment?
02
Complexity
How technically difficult is the change?
03
System impact
How many components of the existing infrastructure are affected?
04
Testing
How much validation is required before release?
05
Risk
What happens if the change does not behave as expected?
Sizing framework
General sizing guide.
Credits are always whole numbers. Select a size to see examples.
1 credit
Quick Enhancement
Small, contained improvement. Typically about 1–2 hours of total delivery capacity.
- Small UI improvement
- Add a field
- Simple notification
- Minor report adjustment
- Contained prompt refinement
Remember
Three different jobs.
Credits size the work.
Capacity measures the work.
Pricing values the work.