Many businesses want to develop their own mini programs, and what they are most concerned about is the cost of developing a mini program. When searching online, how much does it cost to develop a mini program, and there is a variety of information. Next, choose a company to develop small programs, and the quotations vary widely. They can do it for as little as a few hundred yuan, and as much as hundreds of thousands of dollars. This also makes many businesses who want to develop small programs confused.
To understand the actual cost of mini program development, you must first understand the process and configuration of mini program development, and then you can estimate the development cost of mini program.
How much does it cost to develop a small program? At present, there are three main types of small program development methods: customized development, purchasing source code, and templating. How much does it cost to develop a mini program?
Mini program custom development
As a systematic project, the human resources invested in mini program development include: product managers, testers, artists, front-end, and technical research and development. If the average monthly salary per person is 10,000, the project needs analysis to development completion can be completed within one month, and only salary is required. The investment is 50,000. It also depends on the complexity of functional requirements implementation, and the cost is also different.
In addition, the normal operation of the mini program requires infrastructure such as server configuration, domain name registration, and SMS services. This part is paid annually. If the user traffic is not large, the annual investment will be at least about 5,000.
In fact, small programs require a series of positions to provide support from development to online operation, such as operation and maintenance, after-sales customer service, art and operations, and this expenditure is long-term.
Calculated as a whole, the cost of custom development of small programs ranges from tens to hundreds of thousands.
Mini Program Purchase Source Code Development
As the name suggests, it refers to the source code of the program. The source code generally implements a buyout system, that is, you pay once for permanent use. Secondary development can be carried out based on the source code. The price is generally more than 10,000 yuan.
This also requires self-configuration of infrastructure such as servers, domain name registration, and SMS services. Operation, maintenance, and redevelopment will be required in the later stage. It is suitable for those with technical knowledge or small Internet companies.
Mini program template development
There are many software companies on the market that provide template development, and these are mainly targeted at businesses with no technical experience or excessive budgets.
Templating is a SaaS software model that requires no code development. In layman’s terms, it is a set of industry solutions developed by third-party mini program platforms and provides maintenance and after-sales services. Enterprises and merchants can use them by paying a low annual rental fee.
Merchants can simply drag and drop the design or use a theme template to generate a mini program with one click, which is quick to get started and easy to use. The cost ranges from several thousand to tens of thousands, and there are also service providers who offer free services, such as providing free mini program templates. This requires careful consideration. The operation of a company requires costs, and it is not doing charity.
In addition, software service providers provide infrastructure such as server configuration, domain name registration, and SMS services, as well as a series of supporting services such as operation and maintenance, after-sales, and operations. For corporate merchants, it is more worry-free and labor-saving to choose template development.
Summary: The price of small program development is only one of the considerations. You also need to comprehensively consider the company’s strength, technical team, etc., and whether the company is purely software sales or real services. Since mini program is a technical product, it will also involve upgrade and iteration issues in the later stage. Moreover, the development of Internet technology is changing with each passing day, and the mini program market is developing so rapidly. This also raises higher market sensitivity for software service providers. requirements.
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