By default, at least in v1.3.2.4, Magento doesn't have an option for products that are sold as sets. e.g. Product A sold as 4 units per order. So I created an Attribute called product_set and assigned a default value of 1. Any product that is sold by more than one unit, I consequently updated that said product. The reasoning behind this...
We're using S3, SimpleDB and SQS on quite a complicated project. I'd like to be able to automatically track their usage, to be sure we don't suddenly spend large amounts of money when we didn't intend to (perhaps because of a bug). Is there a way of reading the usage figures of all Amazon Web Services and/or the current real time dolla...
Hi all, I have a personal project I'm planning and I came to a small hurdle. I want to have an item with price that will be the default for all clients/users. However, in my business I have some clients that are grandfathered in to some special pricing. In the case of these grandfathered in cases, I'll manually plug their special price...
Hi there, A conversion question relating to prices in oscommerce: I am needing for a custom currency conversion to round the USD prices up to the nearest 5$ to avoid prices being displayed at silly prices such as $263. I am trying to convert to an int and round the following line : $curr->display_price($listing['products_price'], te...
Hi guys! A friend of mine asked me to build a Magento site for him. I've done some standard things before with Magento, but never really undestood how it worked inside. He sells his products across the country with different prices by city. So, he wants: a Welcome screen where the user could pick his city and then show the user the pr...
I have been a software developer for a while but was not interested in the above topics, currently I am put in the position of wanting to learn more about them but don't have a clue where to begin. I have done task estimations and I can do decent ones, but have little/none experience in the field of budget/product pricing and would want...
Normally when I do a system for a customer, I do design sessions on an hourly rate and then come out with a fixed price quotation for the full system development. Now this customer has thrown me a curveball: he doesn't want an hourly rate for design, either - he wants me to quote a fixed price to do all the design, too! Not that he's t...
Hi. I am a freelance programmer working on a php project which I estimate will take me and my team of another 2 programmers around 2 months to complete. This does not include time needed for testing and bug fixing, which I estimate will take between 15 - 30 days. How much do you think I should charge for this project? ...
I always had trouble with estimating cost/price of finished software (or programming work), so here are two questions about it. question 1: You're asked to write a piece of code for cash (all rights to the code belongs to buyer once you're done). You know approximate number of hours it will take (+-25%), and approximate complexity (i....
What i decided: I decided to reject the project for the main reason of the fact the ground me and my girlfriend were on was getting extremely uneasy and i didnt want to loose a cheerleader GF. How often does a programming geek (and proud) get a cheerleader girlfriend haha. Heres the situation: Its my first actual freelance project I...
Hi everybody, We've all seen that stores have nice-looking pricing on their products; "1.99", "209.90" and so on. That's easily done as well if you enter prices manually, but l et's say that we would have a database which stores prices, that are daily updated according to currency changes. Prices are therefore automatically calculated...
I know you can set tier prices per group in the admin, but I require six groups with the same tier prices and one with non. So this would require creating seven sets of tier prices for each product. So what i hope to do is hack the function that checks to see if a product has any tier prices associated with it - so it returns a negative...
We have 2 sets of prices, $ and £'s. How best can I handle this. Should I have a folder with the US site in so when users click on the US flag they go to mydomain.com/us and then navigate from there. Or is there something simpler I can do? The HTML site passes users over to our client system when ordering so currency conversion etc i...
Hi. I'm thinking about making some apps for phones. For the sake of this discussion say it's a generic Yet Another Zombie Shooter game, for Android, iPhone, Blackberry, or OVI Market. It is a kind of casual game that the customer would fire up while in boring class in school or waiting for a bus to come in. Let's also say that the game b...
Hi all, I have an idea of new software product but have no time to develop it myself. I have a bad experience in partnership with other person 50/50 (he fooled me in a while and stole my idea with source code) so I think about outsourcing the project. I have a fear that outsource product will be not as good as I expect and price will no...
I'm tring to make a price list like http://www.squarespace.com/pricing/ or like http://github.com/plans. Do you know if I can have that already built for programmer/webmaster ? Thank you! ...
I have got an app which is currently Tier 5 priced. I want to drop price for my app from Nov-01 till Nov-05 (both including) to Tier 1 and then one day (Nov-06) to Free and then come back to the original Tier 5 pricing. What exact dates should I put for each time period? First I tried to put 2 new date periods: from Nov-01 to Nov-05 (...