Posts Tagged ‘profit’

Calcylator Update

I think it’s worth updating you, progress is slow, but I’m doing my best to be consistent, hopefully after the x-mas chaos, and with my health improving things will pick up again.

I’ve had a few issues with fee calculations, take a look at this:

Closing Fee over �600: (From: eBay.co.uk Fees)

5.25% of the initial �29.99 (�1.57), plus 3.25% of the initial �30.00 – �599.99 (�18.53), plus 1.75% of the remaining closing value balance

Have you ever looked at how complicated ebay fees can get ? I’ve had a bug reported that closing fee’s weren’t being calculated correctly, basically I typo’d a > rather than >= and this was causing the function to fail under certain circumstances, the up-shot, closing fee’s not being added to some transactions.

99p listing fees were also effected by a similar bug – DOH !

Anyway onto some good news, I shall be focusing on two new features (todo page updated), 1 improving the work flow so things feel quicker, the server and page response is excellent, but users just feel they are spending too much time typing stuff in; so I’m going to add a Sell Similar function – like what ebay do. The second will be fee variations, so shops & non-UK users can get involved !

The help section has also been updated with an link to us page so you can now share your favorite calculator with the world !
These are the graphics I’ve done so far, if you’re a paint wizard, please let me know.

Images removed

Bug Hunting Calcylator

Nearly 10days in, and the bug hunt is in full swing, to be honest life is slowing me down !

I’ve learnt an important lesson it is impossible to fully bug hunt your own app, I know this seems obvious, but the scale of this truth isn’t apparent until someone else starts pulling apart what you have done.

Feedback so far:

  • Many Pages: £ Signs were being formatted incorrectly – fixed
  • Profit Report: Needs simple funds in & out calculation at bottom – added
  • Edit sold page: Error – Cannot update postage type – removed
  • Edit sold page: Massive Bug – fees increment without updating any information – fixed
  • Sell Page: “please type description here” – reported as annoying – removed
  • Help Info: Paypal fees used not shown anywhere – Added paypal helpfile

As a permanent record of feedback received, but not yet implemented please see the project todo list.