How much would you guys charge for this

[pstylesss]

This seems like a pretty large programming project to me. Here is the RFP, can you let me know what you guys would charge?

Thanks!

THE CUSTOMER PROCESS:



1) People come to the website

2) There is clear link called: SCHEDULE AN APPOINTMENT

3) They click and up comes a login screen asking if they are an existing customer or a new customer

4) If they are an existing customer, they will have a login ID and PW which they will login with, to bring up the appointment calendar

5) If they are a NEW customer, they will click ?Register? and a form will come up to gather their pertinent data, once they fill out their info and click submit, a screen will come up giving them their customer login ID and PW (or it can come to their email)

6) Once a customer logs in they will be in a client section which will have a number of offerings such as their recent client history, product recommendations, ability to purchase their products or services online and ability to view the Open APPOINTMENT CALENDAR

7) In this section, they click on ?Open Appointment Calendar?

8) Up comes a Calendar (like in your Outlook). All the OPEN appointments are highlighted in a certain color according to what kind of opening it is: (like for hair, color, nails, facial etc)

9) The client types their name into the open slots they are scheduling for and clicks SUBMIT

10) A screen comes up thanking them and saying something like, ?we will see you on such and such a date for this that and the other ?? Or the screen can say, thank you, a confirmation will be sent to your email ?



ADMINISTRATOR PROCESS:



1) Administrator will have an Administrator login and password. They will go to the site, click on an admin link, put in your login and PW and up will come the Administrator Section.

2) Administrator will manage the CALENDAR by adding in the Open Appointments weekly, according to who is working and when. As you schedule appointments or as customers schedule appointments online, those OPEN slots will turn to a different color indicating BOOKED or FULL, (as you have Cancellations, you can Re-Input the Open Slots). This will happen in real-time as to avoid over-booking.

3) When customers arrive for their appointments, the administrator should be able to generate a page to print out for their stylist which includes all the details of the order that was booked online. This "order" description should include space for the administrator to add notes or change details of the order at the last minute

4) As customers conclude their appointments and pay, administrator will have a section to record this information so that it can be added to their CLIENT HISTORY, which they can view with their Client ID login and PW whenever customers want to view their account history. We need to determine what information you want them to be able to view, so we know what fields to add to this area. For instance: date and time of appointment, services rendered, payment received, recommended products and purchases, stylist notes etc. This section can also trigger a CARD or email to be mailed out, reminding them when it is time to schedule their NEXT APPT, in case they didn?t schedule it while they were there.

5) This section will include a way for administrator to track product sales from the website too, so administrator can add that to inventory data, a database of inventory may need to be set up online, which automatically updates when products are sold or replenished

 

[AntiFreze]

I would say easily $10k+, and get 3 months to complete it.

 

[pstylesss]

Originally posted by: AntiFreze
I would say easily $10k+, and get 3 months to complete it.

Thanks. Anyone else have any ideas?

 

[Drakkon]

Sounds pretty extensive...is the registration system already built? graphics needed?
I say $7500-10k with time and materials clauses in case of any changes - 3 months sounds like a good time frame though

 

[pstylesss]

Originally posted by: Drakkon
Sounds pretty extensive...is the registration system already built? graphics needed?
I say $7500-10k with time and materials clauses in case of any changes - 3 months sounds like a good time frame though

Nope, I would be building it all. I'm not doing the graphics though. I would be for basic things though, such as the calendar or simple things like that I would think.

 

[KLin]

Make sure it's just an estimate and not a fixed price in case they decide to change things. 😉

 

[pstylesss]

Looks like I didn't win the bid. Some guy came in under 5,000, says he is charging a discount... he normally charges 15/hr but is only charging 10 as a courtesy. LOL I wouldn't even think about it for 15... actually, I'd laugh in their face if they offered to pay me that.

 

[Hyperblaze]

Originally posted by: ZeroIQ
Looks like I didn't win the bid. Some guy came in under 5,000, says he is charging a discount... he normally charges 15/hr but is only charging 10 as a courtesy. LOL I wouldn't even think about it for 15... actually, I'd laugh in their face if they offered to pay me that.

he might be trying to make a name for himself

edit: for that kind of price, i doubt the code will be all that great.

they might end up paying him 5000 now, and someone else to fix it and clean it up

 

[CrazyLazy]

Originally posted by: Hyperblaze

Originally posted by: ZeroIQ
Looks like I didn't win the bid. Some guy came in under 5,000, says he is charging a discount... he normally charges 15/hr but is only charging 10 as a courtesy. LOL I wouldn't even think about it for 15... actually, I'd laugh in their face if they offered to pay me that.

he might be trying to make a name for himself

edit: for that kind of price, i doubt the code will be all that great.

they might end up paying him 5000 now, and someone else to fix it and clean it up

More likely it's some guy in India with no programming knowledge.

 

[Hyperblaze]

Originally posted by: CrazyLazy

Originally posted by: Hyperblaze

Originally posted by: ZeroIQ
Looks like I didn't win the bid. Some guy came in under 5,000, says he is charging a discount... he normally charges 15/hr but is only charging 10 as a courtesy. LOL I wouldn't even think about it for 15... actually, I'd laugh in their face if they offered to pay me that.

he might be trying to make a name for himself

edit: for that kind of price, i doubt the code will be all that great.

they might end up paying him 5000 now, and someone else to fix it and clean it up

More likely it's some guy in India with no programming knowledge.

very good possiblity.

you get what you pay for in any case.

 

[pstylesss]

Originally posted by: Hyperblaze

Originally posted by: CrazyLazy

Originally posted by: Hyperblaze

Originally posted by: ZeroIQ
Looks like I didn't win the bid. Some guy came in under 5,000, says he is charging a discount... he normally charges 15/hr but is only charging 10 as a courtesy. LOL I wouldn't even think about it for 15... actually, I'd laugh in their face if they offered to pay me that.

he might be trying to make a name for himself

edit: for that kind of price, i doubt the code will be all that great.

they might end up paying him 5000 now, and someone else to fix it and clean it up

More likely it's some guy in India with no programming knowledge.

very good possiblity.

you get what you pay for in any case.

That is exactly what it is. Some guy here locally outsources to people in India.

 

[aceO07]

I guess they would never have gone with what I was going to suggest.. 🙂 I suppose if they're a small business, they may not want to pay that much.

I think this is one of the times where cheapest is not always the way to go. It seems like there's still lots of things to be spec'd out. If it's outsourced, the communication will be slow and not be as good as directly one on one.

 

[presidentender]

Originally posted by: ZeroIQ
That is exactly what it is. Some guy here locally outsources to people in India.

I went looking for a job last summer. There was a "programming position" advertised at a local shop called iProgrammer. I was working site cleanup for a construction company, so I figured I could deal with the stupid name. Get to the interview and it turns out that they wanted programmers to apply... so that the candidate they hired could manage the Indians they had hired. Then they offered to pay me $8/hr. When I declined, they offered $10, then $15. I told them they couldn't pay me enough to do that.

 

[clamum]

Holy fuck, $10k? I'd do that project for less than a thousand.

 

[blahblah99]

10K is quite a bit. I would have charged around $3-5k. This is assuming backend and functionality only. No fancy CSS/html layouts except for basic html to demonstrate functionality.

This is assuming that you don't have to start from scratch, as in you have existing session handlers, authentication, cookie handling, etc etc.

I can probably whip up the basic functionality in a day and spend another week adding features to fulfill the requirements.

 

[brandonbull]

1 week to do that project? You must be a coding and data modeling machine.

 

[txrandom]

$10 an hour? My friend charges $150 an hour and still has a ton of projects lined up. He is doing more graphic design but still...

I don't think I'd trust $10 an hour programming.

 

[FP]

Yeah, $10/hour programming is way too cheap.

I would have charged $15k-$20k for a site like that. Built from scratch with a 1 year service agreement.

There will be so many cut corners on that site that it will inevitably fail or get hacked.

Shoot, half of the work would be coming up with a usable data model, application infrastructure and security. 3 things the winner bidder probably won't account for.

 

[blahblah99]

Originally posted by: brandonbull
1 week to do that project? You must be a coding and data modeling machine.

Like I said, if you already have the basic functionality that is common to any website, adding on a calender and appointment system isn't much more work along with other minor features requested in OP.

40 hours worth of programming MAX using an existing base infrastructure with secure session handling and authentication.