Set the number of rounds when you start. Your client always knows which one they are in. Unresolved comments carry into the next round, resolved ones stay behind, and everyone can see what changed.
Every agency contract says two or three rounds. Almost none of the tools agencies use know what a round is. So feedback arrives as one long, growing thread, the client cannot tell version one from version three, and round four happens without anyone noticing until the invoice.
HopBack treats a round as a real thing. It has a number. It has a start and a finish. It has a record. When a client asks for a fourth, that is a conversation, not a surprise.
Round 1 of 3 shows on the review. Your client sees the same number you do.
When you start round two, every comment you have not resolved comes with it. Everything you fixed stays in round one as proof that you fixed it.
Round one can be a flat PNG or PDF concept, round two the staging link, round three the final build. Same HopBack, same link. It matches the way most websites are actually presented.
The client switches to an earlier round from the same link. Nothing is hidden and nothing needs re-sending.
Put two rounds side by side and see exactly what changed. Studio and Agency.
Round four exists when you say it does. Add it, tell the client, bill it.
Round one's feedback, locked as it was when the client finished.
Which items were resolved, and in which round.
What the client approved, and when.
That record is what turns "you never fixed that" into "here is where we fixed it, in round two, on the 14th".
No. Rounds are optional. If you set a number, it shows on the review; if you do not, you can still add rounds as you go.
Any comment still marked unresolved. Resolved comments stay in the round where they were resolved.
Yes. Rounds can be different formats under the same link.
Yes, from the same link, at any time.
Yes. Add a round whenever the scope calls for it.
Starter includes up to three rounds per project. Studio and Agency are unlimited and include Compare.