Re: Pricing


Couldn't agree more David, I use the comments I made to scare off the people
who don't understand how much bespoke software costs. If they balk at $5k
they certainly won't like the real estimate.


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Terry Kreft


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For any project you've got to take into acount that there is
always elements of analysis, design, specification, code writing,
testing, packaging, delivery and implementation.

You are talking a minimum of a day for analysis, design and
specification (assuming it's simple and the people doing the work
get it right first time).

You are talking a minimum of a day for testing, packaging,
delivery and implementation.

You then have to look at how much time will be spent coding;
looking at what you are asking for I would think a minimum of
three days assuming the data structures and the forms and reports
are fairly straightforward (this is probably an underestimate)..

That's a minimum of 5 days work for this. At the prices I charged
when I was doing govies that would be GBP1000 (about USD1800).

If you were to get this done commercially you would be looking at
GBP3000+ (about USD5400) for this work.

For an inventory application, I"d call this as *very* low estimate.

Inventory apps have to be rock-solid reliable. They often have to
interface in some way with an accounting system, either on a regular
basis or no a periodic basis. This introduces outside requirements
that can be more complex than the building of the inventory
application itself.

I'd say a $10K budget would be a starter budget, for the development
of a very basic app, and that you'd expect to invest at least that
much again in the first two years of use of the actual app (if not
even more).

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David W. Fenton http://www.dfenton.com/
usenet at dfenton dot com http://www.dfenton.com/DFA/


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