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Fee to charge for building a website for someone?

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  • 11-10-2013 3:19pm
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    declan0872
    Registered Users Posts: 17 ✭


    Hi all,

    I have to build a website for a guy setting up his own company. He has asked me to build a website for him. The site is medium size with a store to buy products so there is a good bit of work on that.

    What do you think I should charge him for building the site?

    Cheers!


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    28064212
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    How many hours will it take? What's an hour of your time worth? A * B = C

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    Graham
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 17,642 Mod ✭✭✭✭Graham


    Lots and lots and lots of useful stuff already on this subject:

    http://www.boards.ie/search/submit/?subforums=1&forum=23&query=how+much+to+charge


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    KonFusion
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 2,588 Mod ✭✭✭✭KonFusion


    13574985.jpg

    http://www.abookapart.com/products/design-is-a-job


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    Freddio
    Registered Users Posts: 644 ✭✭✭Freddio


    If you are unsure what to charge then you are probably new to this (without being offensive).

    There are ways to stagnate delivery and development to ensure you don't get ripped off.

    Also be very mindful of scope creep, where the requests for changes seem never ending. Make sure you don't get hoodwinked by this.

    Is the client a friend or family?


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    biko
    Registered Users Posts: 81,223 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Does he have a plan for maintenance? Or is just a build and that's all? No later updates on products, images or such? Will he maintain it himself through some admin interface?

    Will you build from scratch or build around some off the shelf product?

    +1 on scope creep. Don't start coding until every little design bit is agreed upon on paper and signed off on by him.
    Any changes after sign off will have to be changed at a later second release (more money for you yay).
    Once specs are perfectly clear the coding is actually the quick bit.


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    ChRoMe
    Registered Users Posts: 2,021 ✭✭✭ChRoMe


    If you have to ask this question, the answer is "very little"


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    Fussgangerzone
    Registered Users Posts: 371 ✭✭Fussgangerzone


    declan0872 wrote: »
    I have to build a website for a guy setting up his own company. He has asked me to build a website for him. The site is medium size with a store to buy products so there is a good bit of work on that.

    Oh god. Did they ask for "a fairly standard website and add a shopping cart to it"? Because if they did, I have to warn you, e-commerce sites are a little bit more complicated than that and can suck up a lot of time, especially if it's your first time setting one up.

    Look into Shopify, it's $30 a month subscription, whatever that is in €, and gives you a fully-featured cart with custom design and takes 95% of the pain out of the process.

    Alternatively, you're looking at something like Magento, which is very good, but takes serious work to set up. Shopping sites take a lot of time.


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