rough quote for work

Robdav · 23 Apr 2006 at 21:23

Hi all,

I'm looking for some advice. I've been asked to provide a quote for the following work and although I have a figure in my head I was wondering if anyone here could suggest a price?

Work required:

* web site with custom CMS to allow clients to make changes etc.
* customised e-shop with payment gateway intergration for retail customers
* customised e-shop with payment gateway intergration, and invoice history/order information for trade customers.

notes: e-shop needs to have same look & feel as web site hence it needs customising.

many thanks

Robdav · 24 Apr 2006 at 09:43

thanks for the replies. the figure i have in mind is close to the £5k mark which i don't think is unreasonable considering the amount of work etc. it's also an ongoing relationship with the customer who will want more work done in the future.

thanks

Robdav · 24 Apr 2006 at 12:16

punky_munky said:
By custom CMS and custom e-commerce systems do you mean you'll be building them from the ground up? Big bucks if you are.

I will be writing the CMS from scratch, well using most of the stuff I've developed for other CMS work i've done. I've developed a basic "standard" cms that I can drop into a site and use so I'll just re-gig that to allow for the specific requirements from my client.

As for the e-commerce side I'm trying to find a shopping cart which I can modify to fit in with the look and feel of the site, which allows intergration with either 2checkout, worldpay, or protex, and keeps the visitors "on-site" while the processing is done in the background. If I can't find anything that does it then I'll write it myself but I'm not looking forward to doing that.

I was thinking of cubecart as a starting point as it does pretty much what I want above, but i'm not 100% sure if it'll be flexible enough to allow me to skin it to match the style of the site i'm developing. any one care to comment?

thanks

Robdav · 24 Apr 2006 at 14:51

Thanks bean..

what if i was to write the shopping cart myself, any thing i should keep in mind? the only worry i have is the shipping side of things...

Robdav · 24 Apr 2006 at 15:52

aint that the truth! thanks mate. sounds like you have some experience with this sort of thing. mind if I pick your brains occasionally??

Robdav · 24 Apr 2006 at 16:30

thanks mate. a little daunted by it all at the moment but i'm sure with the support of all you lot it shouldn't be too much of a problem.

cheers

Robdav · 24 Apr 2006 at 20:22

Don't worry I won't be asking anyone to write anything, I might ask for some pointers though

I take it that freak_boy was a problem then?

Robdav · 24 Apr 2006 at 21:10

lol ... and to think that manners cost nothing. oh well sounds like he deserved what he got.

Anyway thanks again.

Robdav · 24 Apr 2006 at 22:55

All good info guys. I will only start developing my own shopping cart if I cannot get a commercial (or semi-commercial) shopping cart to fall in line with the look and feel of my clients site. Hopefully I can avoid hair loss and sleepless nights. oh hang on i have a 1 year old son so there is no way I can get away from sleepless nights

I'm leaning towards cubecart + worldpay at the moment btw.