Re: Pricing Advice Needed

There's several ways to look at this too. Currently I'm doing some work for a small/home business owner. She needed some work done with some shopping cart stuff, a little MySQL DB and some smart forms. Not a lot of work, but then some of the stuff I've not worked with before. We ended up agreeing on US$1000/flat. I was willing to go this route because being such a small business, I knew that money WOULD be an issue. Also, from my POV, you also benefit "intangibly" from every job you do... Keep a private portfolio of work you've done and hour many hours you've put into it. Seperate hours designing the code and hours making the code more efficient, et cetera. Now if a client wants something similar to what you've already done, you simply bill out for: (Development Hours of Code + (Code Modification Hours / 10) + (Code Customization Hours /2)) * Hourly Rate This is a good way to build work for yourself too, as once you have a good compiled library of code, you can take on several jobs at once based on pre-written code, and bill out cross hours as you customize a few pieces of code and get your months salary in a couple of hours ;-) Of course, that IS wishful thinking but still!!! Jesse Williams System Administrator DowNET VoIP Team Electronic Data Systems