I don't know if this is the right section but...

[Piuc2020]

One of my friends wants me to create and update/maintain (basically be the webmaster) a new website for a brand of clothes he is importing. The website's style and complexity would be along the lines of something like A&F's website (Abercrombie & Fitch) or any other similar brand of clothes so it would be more than just HTML (flash, css, xml, etc)

However, I really don't know what would be a reasonable price to ask of him... it is a lot of work but I really don't know what the fair price would be, either for the creation of the website and the monthly payment for being the webmaster of such.

Any ideas? I really don't want to ask a price far too high, especially since it's my friend, but I don't want to be ripped off either.

 

[toekramp]

if you think he's going to be successful ask for a percentage of his gross. Otherwise I'd probably charge a friend somewhere around $400 bucks to set it up, and then something like $70 a month for minimal maintenance.

edit: and I'm figuring it'll take you 20 hours or so to configure what he needs... nothing built from scratch.

 

[Markbnj]

Abercrombie and Fitch likely paid well into the six-figure range for the initial development of their site.

 

[toekramp]

Originally posted by: Markbnj
Abercrombie and Fitch likely paid well into the six-figure range for the initial development of their site.

true. but if he uses something like Volusion as a base, it could be much easier. (note, I've never dealt with volusion, just did a search on clothing ecommerce)

 

[Hyperblaze]

All depends on what the functionality involved.

Are you building him a CMS? Are you simply using one already built and configuring it to his requirements?

 

[Markbnj]

Originally posted by: toekramp

Originally posted by: Markbnj
Abercrombie and Fitch likely paid well into the six-figure range for the initial development of their site.

true. but if he uses something like Volusion as a base, it could be much easier. (note, I've never dealt with volusion, just did a search on clothing ecommerce)

No doubt, but some expectation setting might still be useful here 🙂. Concepts like "level of complexity of A&Fs site" should not be tossed off casually. Could be 200-400 hours of work for one person laboring alone to come up with something that looks anywhere near that good. If it's pure marketing without any back-end data, and there is an artist and an existing design... maybe a quarter of that. Still not chump change.

So, yeah, ask for a piece of the net profits if he doesn't have at _least_ $10-15k to put on the table.

 

[toekramp]

Originally posted by: Markbnj

Originally posted by: toekramp

Originally posted by: Markbnj
Abercrombie and Fitch likely paid well into the six-figure range for the initial development of their site.

true. but if he uses something like Volusion as a base, it could be much easier. (note, I've never dealt with volusion, just did a search on clothing ecommerce)

No doubt, but some expectation setting might still be useful here 🙂. Concepts like "level of complexity of A&Fs site" should not be tossed off casually. Could be 200-400 hours of work for one person laboring alone to come up with something that looks anywhere near that good. If it's pure marketing without any back-end data, and there is an artist and an existing design... maybe a quarter of that. Still not chump change.

So, yeah, ask for a piece of the net profits if he doesn't have at _least_ $10-15k to put on the table.

fair enough 🙂