Plugins For Openx 2.8 Needed Please., Here is a list of What I need, What do you Charge for this? Options

[robert8450]

Hello, I am in need of several Plugins for 2.8. Here is a list of what I need, Please let me know what you would charge to help me fix my OpenX installation to be able to work with these...

.............#1, I need a plugin so that I can email my advertisers and publishers. I want to be able to be able to send emails to specific advertisers and publishers as well as "all advertisers" and "all publishers". I have some ideas about what I need and what it should look like and accomplish, but I am not qualified to attempt this for fear of breaking my openx installation. Here are some similar plugins that may work:

$80 Custom email messages to users
http://www.openxmods.com/openxmods/custom-.../prod_1330.html
$20 Email to advertisers with their info
http://www.openxmods.com/openxmods/email-t.../prod_1271.html
$30 Email to all Publishers
http://www.openxmods.com/openxmods/email-t.../prod_1383.html

If you can build something like this, please let me know your price. I think the prices listed on the above website are too high and I don't want to pay $130 for all 3 to find out that they don't work for me.

............#2, I need a plugin that will allow advertisers and publishers to sign themselves up to pay for ad space or choose the banners they want to run on their own websites in the case of publishers. Here are some modifications that look interesting, but I don't know which of these I need and which will work together. Take a look at the following plugins and let me know what you think it will cost to get a system that will do what the following plugins appear to be able to do:

$30 Client Registration
http://www.openxmods.com/openxmods/client-.../prod_1273.html
$80 Advanced Advertiser Sign Up (Paypal) With All Permissions
http://www.openxmods.com/openxmods/advance.../prod_1261.html
$130 Advertiser/Publisher Registration with/without paypal (all permissions)
http://www.openxmods.com/openxmods/adverti.../prod_1304.html
$100 Advertiser/Publisher Registration with/without paypal
http://www.openxmods.com/openxmods/adverti.../prod_1384.html
$99 Billing Module
http://www.openxmods.com/openxmods/billing...e/prod_608.html
$120 Billing System Integration (with Publisher payment UI)
http://www.openxmods.com/openxmods/billing.../prod_1269.html

If you can build something like this, please let me know your price. I think the prices listed on the above website are too high and I don't want to pay $500+ for all 6 to find out that they don't work for me.

If the programmer who wrote the above applications happens to see this topic here and you wish to review and revise your pricing, I may be willing to spend a couple hundred dollars for a system that can do all of the above, but I think $500-$600 as you have advertised on your website is way too much.

Your thoughts ?

[Ram Kumar]

Hi robert,

I am a full time freelancing consultant and would be able to help you with this.

https://www.scriptlance.com/cgi-bin/freelan...tyram&all=1

regards
Ram Kumar
Softyram.com
info@softyram.com

[robert8450]

ok, thank you for the response. How much will you charge to do this for me? The link to your scriptlance page does not appear to work for me

[Ram Kumar]

Hi robert,


You can send me your contact id to proceed further.

regards
Ram Kumar
Softyram.com
info@softyram.com

[robert8450]

...You can send me your contact id to proceed further....

You can also send me a private message with a quote or price for your services as well if you are interested. If you need help or don't know how to do that, simply click on my name to the left and "send message"

[robert8450]

Ok, since I have not received a satisfactory response from a programmer, I felt I needed to provide a better explanation for the above post... Basically, I need the following mods for my openx installation but the website that I am linking to above has serious problems and I am not very inspired to buy from them.

...Here are the above mentioned mods and my review of them as well as what I am looking for...

their mod titled, "Custom email messages to users (Advertisers & Publishers)"
#1. I need to be able to send custom messages / emails to all users.
#1a. I need to be able to email all users both advertisers and publishers
#1b. I need to be able to select whether I want to email individual users or all users.
#1c. I need to be able to select whether advertisers or publishers (or both) will receive the email
#1d. the mod needs to have a standard wysiwyg editor

I think $20-$30 is a fair price for this modification

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their mod titled, "Email to advertisers with their info"
#2. I think $20 is fair for this modification but it needs to be one email system, not 3 separate modifications.

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their mod titled, "Email to all Publishers"
#3. I think this appears to be a good mod, but I think it needs to be built into one email system as described above in item #1. I can't see where anyone would 2 separate mods (one for emailing advertisers and one for emailing publishers, but if it has to be done in two different mods, then it needs to be no more than $20-$30 in total price for both modifications.

>>>>>>>> I think all three of the above mods can and should be consolidated into one email modification. If that is not possible and they need to be separate mods, then the total price for all of the email mods to be able to do what I have explained should be no more than $20-$30 for an email system like this.

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their mod titled, "Client Registration"
#4a. the advertiser needs to be able to create their own account and pay a price (determined by administrator). This price should be a list of choices depending on what advertising package they want to select.
#4b. the advertiser must verify their email address and have log in details so they can log in and check on their account stats periodically or make changes to their account.
#4c. the advertiser should be able to contact the administrator, edit their campaigns, upload banners, etc.

I think the $30 price for this mod as listed is a fair price if it can do what I am suggesting. the website that sells this mod is not very explicit in what exactly the mod will and can do other then allow the client to create their own account.

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their mod titled, "Advanced Advertiser Sign Up (Paypal) With All Permissions"
#5a. this mod appears to be what I need on first glance, but when I play with the demo - it is not. A new advertiser can not create their campaigns but should be able to. Also, there was no charge, the advertiser was able to sign up without paying anything. In their account, the billing said $0 because there were no banners yet I could not create one because there was no campaign and it would not let the advertiser create their own. So over all, this mod is close, but not complete.

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their mod titled, "Advanced Advertiser Sign Up (Paypal) With All Permissions"
#6a. this appears to be exactly what I need for advertisers and publishers. The advertiser sign up page on the demo site looks great, but wouldn't you know it? it does not work and has been broken for at least 2 weeks so what does that tell me about the service and support from openxmods.com ? that does not convey a lot of confidence if you ask me. If it worked, I think $100 is fair.

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their mod titled, "Advertiser/Publisher Registration with/without paypal"
#7 this mod is totally worthless and so is the youtube video that was given to promote it. Why would you want your advertiser to signup and not be able to create campaigns or edit or upload banners?

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their mod titled, "Billing Module"

mod #8. the description on that page sounds interesting, but the 64 second video demo sucks. I think the idea of this billing module sounds good but it needs to be built into mod #6 above. I can not understand why they would be different or why you would want one and not the other. To me, if you want to have advertisers and you want to charge them for advertising, you need to have both, a billing module and a way for them to sign themselves up with full permissions. Together I think mod #6 and mod #8 need to be all in one and no more than $100 total to do this.
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on their "client page" http://www.openxmods.com/index.php?act=client they have many clients listed (sometimes duplicates) that have broken or non existent websites. That tells me that openxmods.com are not very concerned about the appearance of their website and if that is true, I don't believe I can depend on them for support or reliable products. Additionally, their affiliate link is broken at the bottom of their pages: http://www.openxmods.com/jamaffiliates/index.php so over all, I just don't have a lot of confidence in this company's ability as you can see.

If anyone out there can build similar mods as I am referencing or describing, please contact me, I am interested to hear from you.

In summary, I need an email system as explained in #1, #2, and #3 mods above and I want to pay a fair price as listed above. Additionally, I need an advertiser billing and signup system as described in #4, #6, and #8 above and I think $100-$120 would be fair for that modification.

Is this possible or am I from another planet?

[Ram Kumar]

ok, thank you for the response. How much will you charge to do this for me? The link to your scriptlance page does not appear to work for me

https://www.scriptlance.com/cgi-bin/freelan...rofile=softyram

Here is the link

scriptlance.com/cgi-bin/freelancers/freelancers.cgi?viewprofile=softyram

[Buckneri]

looking for the same here but i may just spend 45$ and go with http://www.softbizscripts.com/banner-excha...pt-features.php which is a complete ad management system with paypal integration self signup and ability to charge per click or per impression.... sorry openx the open source community is a bit tooo greedy for my taste as of late

ok, thank you for the response. How much will you charge to do this for me? The link to your scriptlance page does not appear to work for me

https://www.scriptlance.com/cgi-bin/freelan...rofile=softyram

Here is the link

scriptlance.com/cgi-bin/freelancers/freelancers.cgi?viewprofile=softyram

[robert8450]

looking for the same here but i may just spend 45$ and go with http://www.softbizscripts.com/banner-excha...pt-features.php which is a complete ad management system with paypal integration self signup and ability to charge per click or per impression.... sorry openx the open source community is a bit tooo greedy for my taste as of late

...exactly and I agree. I am getting quotes for $800-$1,200 which is insane for these modifications. I'd expect to pay $100-$200, but not $1,000 for a modification. I did get one quote for $300 but the guy doesn't speak good english and so I don't feel comfortable that I can trust the work they might do. I know that's probably not a reliable reason to dis-trust a programmer, but its how I feel about it. If I was asking for code in another language, then I absolutely would trust it - but not for an english platform

One helpful private message I got states,

...The market rates for developers seem to be in the $80-200/hr USD range for US or EU developers, and $15-50/hr USD range for India/China.

People may be reluctant to send you quotes when your overall budget equates to 3 hours of work. If you leave your budget out and get some ballpark quotes in you may be able to negotiate someone down closer to your range.

I agree with the person who sent me that and I think this person is accurate in their estimate as that appears to be the case, but I think these "programmers" are crazy for thinking they can charge that much. They would make so much more money by cutting their rates in half because they would have 10 times the amount of work. Not only that but as member named, "Buckneri" stated above, he is looking for a similar modification, so why can't a programmer build it and then sell it to many people for a reduced price? Why do they feel that they need to "re-invent the wheel" for each of us and rape all of us individually? They don't, they're just being ridiculous in my opinion.

Half the time, these guys from India don't even speak good English and I gotta tell you that it doesn't inspire me to do business with them or trust that I would get a quality product. Don't misunderstand, I don't have a problem with people from other countries or nationalities at all, but when it comes to trusting a product and its creator, I think it only fair that we can communicate - especially if I am "having to let them know what I need". If the communication isn't there, one can only guess what sort of arguments and disagreements await when checking out the final product - make sense?