I haven't been told about what I need to specifically do but they told me the application would consist of 8 custom decent size forms (10-25 fields), user/pw for data inputters, an admin section that can add/delete user, change pw, and view reports of data generated. It would also include about 7-8 search functions (search by date, inputter, product name, client name , etc).

You haven't been given enough information to have any idea what the application will do. 80 to 200 form fields across 8 screens should be enough to implement a huge range of complex web applications! Hell, you could implement a reasonable subset of Krang within those limits. (Krang took 4 programmers around 7 months to complete.)

How much should I charge them?

From what you've said I think it's a fair bet that you're not experienced enough to make a fixed fee bid for a project this large. Instead I suggest you shoot for something based on the time it actually takes you to complete the project. Feel free to make an estimate but do yourself a favor and don't bet any money on it!

-sam

In reply to Re: How much is an web-based application worth? by samtregar
in thread How much is an web-based application worth? by perleager

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