How Much To Charge

[Basher]

Ok, I have been asked to develop a website for an international golf organisation, a branch of a big company just beginning.

The site will prob be fairly small to start with but will expand in the future. The site will incorporate an interactive feature enabling the registered users to add content to the site.

But how much do you think I should charge? I really don't have a clue as I havn't really charged for doing sites previously.

Thanks,

Basher

[Butuz]

Sounds like your bascially gonna be designing some sort of content managment system.

£2000 minimum, and increase the price as the features they require increase. Add another £2000 minimum for any B2b / e-commerce features.

Thats the minimum, the bigger the company the bigger your prices should be.

Butuz

[Shad]

Or, come to JK Internet and buy some of our software to make your life easier

[Butuz]

Yeah, you could always listen to our in house pimp daddy if your lazy and want to let others eat away at your profit

Shad your a big



Butuz

[Butuz]

Sorry for the spam but i just had to post that. Thats the only remaining photo of shad in existance!

Butuz

[DaBeeeenster]

Originally posted by Basher
Ok, I have been asked to develop a website for an international golf organisation, a branch of a big company just beginning.

The site will prob be fairly small to start with but will expand in the future. The site will incorporate an interactive feature enabling the registered users to add content to the site.

But how much do you think I should charge? I really don't have a clue as I havn't really charged for doing sites previously.

Thanks,

Basher

It depends entirely on the scope of the project. Sit down and write down EVERYTHING that will need doing for the site. EVERYTHING. Thought about hosting? Thought about support? Thought about testing? Thought about deployment? There are a lot of things that will take up your time, not just the development!

The most important thing to agree on with the client is whether they want it to be a fixed price project, or whether they are going to pay you on a hourly/daily basis. So either you work out a figure and that's what it will cost them, or you say you will work for a certain amount (my company charges between £40 and £60 per hour depending on the task). Some people will prefer the fixed cost, some prefer the variable one.

If it's a site designed by a professional creative designer (which you would also be charging for, or has that not been done yet?) containing a certain amount of backend functionality, I'd say a rough figure would be anything from £3000 up to maybe 6 or 7k, depending on the complexity of the site, functionality, design, hosting etc. etc.

How many pages will the site have? Calculating a cost per page is also a good way of doing things...

Oh, and Shad, I've never seen a more blatant pimping effort in my entire life, and I've been to New Orleans

[TiG]

surely you need to work out how long it will take you to do it and charge accordingly?, specification of the work and a project plan should help with that?

TiG

[Shad]

Well... guh, somebody's gotta pimp our software, our sales woman is on holiday for 2 weeks

What our software will save you in time spent on development of back-end and integration systems, is profit for you in the future

I'll stop now

[woody]

Overall Cost depends primarily on:
How much graphic design is required
The complexity of the backend
Aftersales support

the latter is particually important, if you support is poor you're unlikely to get more work from them...I work very closely with clients to ensure that they get what they want initially and continue to get what they want 12 months later.

as to pay, if you're freelance 'bout £20-£30 an hour depending on your location. do a good job, learn and charge more next time....