I am putting together a proposal for a large multinational company for our licenced solution. Problem is I've never put together something this big before and so I don't know what is acceptable. Ignoring hosting or support (or even the functionality of the app) for the moment and just concentrating the licence - do you think it's more u...
I'm currently working on a small web application for someone. They are on a relatively tight budget most of which is paying for the time that I'm spending developing the project for them. They are going to need some web space for the project. The site is small enough and will utilize a small amount of bandwidth so I don't mind setting ...
I charge my clients by the hour when building them websites. It's the only reasonable way for me to do it without either ripping them off, or ripping myself off. They always ask: "How many hours do you think it will take?" and I usually don't know what to tell them without stressing myself out by putting myself on a time line. What do yo...
I am sitting on a project with a client and have to sit there and discuss whether something is useful or not. Since I can't program while I am there I don't get paid since I get paid by the hour of programming. Should I raise my programming price or should I make consulting cost money? Its mostly stuff like I don't like the sidebar on th...
When selling a software package that requires hardware, typically dedicated hardware (could be a VM), the buyer typically has to buy the server it will run on. So the total cost of ownership (focusing on the capital expense) includes the hardware in addition to the software. For example, a $3000 bug tracking package might need a $1500 ...
I have written a small laptop battery meter utility for Windows that I have been selling for a low price ($7.50). I recently was contacted by a company that wants to purchase a very large number of licenses (nearly 1,000). They would like an unlimited site license to avoid having to manage the number of licenses. My questions is, what...
Hi, I have to following problem to solve. I have to calculate the bidding price from a total price. For example, a client wants to pay 2000$ as a total price, but from this price, there are added costs: -usage price which is 10% from the bidding price with a minimum of 10$ and a maximum of 50$ -seller price: 2% from bidding price -ad...
I'm amazed that Azure still hasn't released their pricing break down yet. Does anyone know what it is going to cost roughly? ...
We just finished a small project for a client (~35k), and the client would like to open a service contract with us to respond to any issues within 4 hours. The client would pay a monthly fee regardless of if there are any issues or not. Since this is a new product, it is likely that there will be issues, but we think that they would be...
In a few days I'll be meeting with the owner and a few others of a small business. At this meeting, I'll be discussing their website, specifically how I would plan to improve it. I have already had a few discussions with employees at this company, so I have a good idea about what they like/dislike about the site now, as well as a few k...
I have heard there has been some studies of the apple app store for the iphone. It was a comparison between having a free application supported by ad vs a .99 cent application. .99 cents seems to be the sweet spot for a lot of the smaller applications. Anyone know where those studies were done? Are people having better success with .99 ...
I am looking for a method to decide on the price for a J2EE project that we developed. I know of COCOMO model but dont know if there are any tools/plugins (preferably on eclipse) to calculate the cost. A very naive method of deciding the cost of development would be to associate a price to every Kilo Line of Code. If this is right, how m...
There is another post on here "How to quote project development cost" where user SpliFF commented: This is not a labor market, you are selling knowledge and solutions. Some solutions are better than others. 10 hours of failing is worth much less than 10 hours of building a killer app. You need to stop thinking about time...
i have been approached to build some websites for a few small businesses. They want a basic out of the box database driven website with some standard stuff (users, authentication, a few dynamic pages, etc). i am going to use asp.net mvc for this. they have asked me how much i charge for this. my question, is that i have no frame of r...
Someone has approached me to build a website for their small business. What is the protocol for laying out an offer for building a website in terms of pricing? Do I charge for number of pages? If they want advanced features (Flash, Ajax, etc.) is it just price per hour of development? What if I have no idea how long it will take? Are...
Hello. Lately I've been looking at force.com which happens to be SalesForce.com's cloud initiative. However, what I am unable to draw is its comparison with Amazon & Azure platforms. Force.com seems to be targeting Enterprises primarily, so I am not sure if as a small shop, I should be going that way. Mine is going to be a social network...
My app has been free since the beginning, I uploaded a new version and set it to Teir 1 pricing. People who updated got it for free for some reason, only new downloads by new users were charged. Did I miss something in my main bundle to ensure that upgrades are not free? ...
Note: if you are familiar with the Azure pricing model, just jump to the "question" section. Microsoft will begin to charge for the use of the Azure platform starting February 1, 2010. The monthly bill will be a function of bandwidth, storage, and others. Among the factors used to calculate the bill is compute time. This latter factor, ...
Hi there, I'm developing a price calculation engine. I've looked all over and there's nothing that really fits what we need. However, I'm now looking how to implement specific prices and/or discounts. I don't want to introduce a rule based engine to my end-users, because they won't get it. For example, when you order an ItemX the price ...
I have a small javascript pricing calculation that is not working on a friend's PC, but it works fine on my Mac. I'm guessing it's a semi-colon or something small that's not in the correct spot? Please help if you can?! The full page can be found @ http://procollage.com/pricing/photo-collage-pricing.html. Thank you all, again, in advance...