Client Appt tomorrow 300,000 products

[Matt]

Yes, I agree product input is painful, and I charge $15 per product.

That is more like it. A bit steep but it all depends on the work. If you are doing it yourself and guaranteeing quality, I think it is about in line. Would be nice to make $4.5M but that ain't gonna happen without proper infrastructure.

If you are doing 300k products, I have no clue how one person would enter that into the DB by hand, nor how anyone could afford to pay 1 dollar per product, yet still require an Open Source cart??

Sounds like you are getting low-balled or "felt out" for your operational capacity to me


They want a free cart that supports 300k products? If you enter that by hand, assuming an average of 5 mins per product and no typos are involved, that comes to 1,500,000 minutes.

25,000 hours

1041 days

2.83 years of non-stop data entry at a rapid pace.

Hopefully all the product info is already in a DB and all you need to do is modify it to work with your cart of choice, then slam it in a MySQL database for said cart.

If that is the case, charging 10 cents per product yields $3000 USD but even then I question if it is worth it with all the fixes that will need to be done with that DB.

There will be typos, random characters, and product descriptions that do not match product titles, dupes, etc.

Spend 40 hours on fixing that stuff and it boils down to $75/hour. Not bad, but not good and a best case scenario for a web developer given the details provided so far.

Given the details so far you'd be at it for a month at least! Now that $75/hour turns into $18.75 plus all the free things you have to do, not to mention the actual part which you specialize in, which is design...

We must be missing some important info here.

I don't buy that they have 300k products already typed up still and don't have an ecomm solution. You sure they are legit?