Hi,
OK guys, here’s a summary of the new projects that we’re understaking and
some outstanding questions regarding both.
1) Beat FM
Development of new website incorporating online advertising, some animation,
SMS integration and content management. This is a notably tricky site with
lots of custom CMS components. One idea for a service is responding with the
song name and artist when a user sends an SMS to a BEAT premium number. We
have to technically work out how this could be achieved. BEAT favours using
Phonovation’s gateway. I presume this is all webservice based but we’re
going to find out. This work wasn’t in the specced price and we’ll be adding
another 500 euro (minimum) onto the price for it.
2) DeCare Amazon & Froogle catalogue management using StoreFront. We’ve a
meeting next week with DeCare. They’re extremely good technically and could
generate a lot of business for us if we’re recommended as they’re
“preferred” shopping cart for smaller retailers. Essentially this work will
involve creating a module to enable a new catalogue (2 different CSV
formats) to be automagically created and FTP’d to amazon/froogle. It
shouldn’t kill us to do this but the bad news is that we won’t get paid
until we show that it works.
3) SAGE custom software development
Spec to be provided by EVROS. Perhaps they might even pay us within terms
this time! We’ll have to charge steeply for this. Spec has just been
received 🙂
4) CREST Rating service with WIT. This is another freebie but would enable
us to automatically bill customers on the Wireless Network for VoIP and
other traffic. The CREST rating service works so it only remains to create
charging schemes for the VOIP based on our flat rates (easy) and to
interface with National Irish Bank’s direct debit interface (a web service
of interdeterminate complexity). We’re meeting National Irish next week.
5) Launching the phone service. We’ve now got a CPS offering so we can sign
up anyone, even if they don’t have broadband. We make 4 times the margin on
the standard VoIP service so that’s best but 10% is better than nothing so
let’s get cracking.
Regards,
…shane
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