Custom programming is expensive and may take many hours of troubleshooting before it works properly. After all, if large professional firms like Microsoft have to continually issue patches to their programs to make them work properly, what is the chance a less experienced programmer will develop a bug free program for you in the first attempt?
Here are some questions to ask your designer in this regard:• What custom programming will be done?
• How much will it cost?
• Why use this instead of an “off the shelf” option?
• How long will they continue to fix any bugs?
shopping cart system rather then using affordable, proven technology that is already developed and trouble free.
I highly recommend using proven tools as it is usually less expensive, has fewer bugs and has less potential ownership problems than programming from scratch.