No one has the ability to say if a suggestion will be implemented in the future.
Cosmic is our Managing Director, he can decide that a suggestion is something he really feels should be added to the product and can ask the developer of the mod to work on it, but he does not make update plans for every single product we have. It wouldn't be feasible to do for 75+ products
You seem to have contradicted yourself here.
You state no one has the ability, yet state Cosmic right after. Clearly Cosmic has the ability then.
It makes absolutely no sense for you to say no one...
In either case, I thought it would be like this:
If the coder who designed the product liked somebodys suggestion, they could ask Cosmic whether or not they're allowed to code for it. Hence the coder + Cosmic combined should have the power to decide what features they want added or not. If Cosmic wants to step in, he can ask the coder to add a feature.
Cosmic isn't the one who codes other peoples product, is he? So I'm not really sure why you needed to state that last sentence. I'm not asking you to add in every single feature. The coder who designed the product, if he wants to do a specific suggestion (assuming he isn't occupied doing something else), he can ask Cosmic. It shouldn't be more complicated than that.
I have absolutely no clue how you pay your coders, hence feel free to absolutely ignore this part (in size 1), as it is based entirely on assumptions:
It seems to me your company isn't particularly efficient at implementing suggestions, nor at hiring many html coders.
Most companies I know hire coders and monitor their activity. If the employee slack off not doing anything, they'll get a pay cut or get fired. Sure you don't have the luxury of firing your limited employees, but I do hope you only pay your coders if they're actually doing something.
Due to your custom work prices + reading other threads, I hope you aren't paying them on a hourly/daily basis. They should be getting a paid a percentage depending on the number of products sold. They can get bonuses for implementing suggestions/ doing bug fixes.
That's how I think you should do it, if you aren't already.
We would be happy to add a complimentary Pro version to the job in question
You completely misread or ignored what I said...
Would you add it into the LITE version? Yes or No?
Note: I'm not going to be asking for custom work due to the prices anyway, but it would be good to know.
Our rates start at $35/hr, and we most often only take on jobs if the cost of development is at least $500, otherwise it would simply not be worth our time to work out feature requirements and the inevitable feedback after the fact. $500 works out at roughly 2 days work, so on average we charge $250/day for custom work.
Any coder worth their salt would be charging similar fees, unless they are new to freelancing.
$35/hr is extraordinarily expensive. Normal jobs for html coders out of Uni (computer science degree) is around $15 per hour or less. For skilled coders, it's around $25. In any case, I know very few people who would charge such rates, for html coding.
Those prices are absolutely absurd in the context of the matter. Hence nobody should ever ask for custom work, if they just want a few (simple) features added to the product, it's far more feasible just asking somebody else.
If the product itself (PRO) cost $40, why on earth should anybody pay $500 just for a 'simple' feature to get added to the PRO version?
I'm not sure what Coders you've been talking to, but the coders I know (RL friends) do suggestions like mine in a couple of hours. I've never asked them to do DB Tech products because I wasn't sure if they were allowed or not. But now I know, I will be asking them. They will do it for $50 or less, so I'll just ask them to add onto the LITE version.
It doesn't take very long, if the coder knows what you're doing and are efficiently doing their task.
I'm not trying to sound rude, but asking for custom work for simple features to be added on, isn't something you should suggest to your customers without quoting your prices.
Only those who are rich/ have a serious business should ask for custom work.
I know most people complain about your PRO prices, but I personally think they're very good for it's worth (at least, most of them are).
Any coder worth their salt would be charging similar fees, unless they are new to freelancing.
That is extremely rude.
I know people within vbulletin.org who are aren't new to freelancing (been in the community for over 5 years), yet they'd make products for FREE or under $50 making an entire product OR added in all the suggestions the customer asked for.
Why do they do it? They mostly do it because it's a part of their hobby & have the time.
Any coder who has a decent job and isn't reliant on their vbulletin products, are far more flexible and far morè reasonable with their price.
The exact formula is (
baseCost1) + ((
cost2) -
existingCost3)) * 1.50
4))) * 0.5
For your DBSEO example (3 Months to Lifetime), the formula would be (69.95 + ((199.95 - 69.95) * 1.50)) * 0.5
Step by step resolution:
- (69.95 + (130 * 1.50)) * 0.5
- (69.95 + 195) * 0.5
- 264.95 * 0.5
- 132.475
The rounding works in such a way that this becomes the final price table:
3 Months: US $34.95
1 Years: US $57.45
Lifetime: US $132.45
1) The cost of a 3 Months licence for this product
2) The cost of the licence you wish to upgrade to, before discounts
3) The cost of the licence you already owned, before discounts
4) There's a 50% markup on the difference between the existing licence and the licence you wish to upgrade to, if the upgrade licence is of a higher cost
This formula was correct at the time of writing, and is subject to change. DragonByte Technologies reserves the right to change this formula or its component values at any point in the future.
Thanks for that
http://www.dragonbyte-tech.com/f10/discounts-dragonbyte-techs-products-addons-4479/
^ You really should update that thread.