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I am trying to build a "Simple" site with Front Page. The site is to help people find refunds due them. In these economic times this site should be a hit.

What I would like to do is be able to put a search feature on the site where people could put their name in and see if a refund exists for them.

#1 How can I make this search happen?

I was charging a percent based on the amount of refund due people. (It was usually 20% of the refund) I was also doing it manually. Which took a lot more time. Most of the refunds I have been processing for people run from about $600 -1,500.00. If the site works as I hope it will, I would like to go to a flat fee of between $75.00 -$150.00.

Upon payment the site would reveal who the refund was from, the proper forms to claim the refund, and all other details necessary to receive the refund. These are "Guaranteed Refunds". This is about a $100.00 savings from what I was charging doing it manually.

The second questions being...Would you be willing to pay up to $150.00 to get money that you never knew was out there and all the forms and details on how to receive it?

One last item. These refunds take up to 120 days for processing.
#assistance #money #refunds #savings #us government
  • Profile picture of the author Ethan Evans
    About the search part. One way to make it work is if you get a programmer to put all of the names in a database. Then when someone does a search, the website will check what was entered against whats in the database. I would recommend just using a simple MYSQL database. You could try reading about how to do this yourself, there is a lot of info about how to do things like this. You could also just see if you can hire someone. It might be faster and easier if someone who already knows what to do just does it for you.
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  • Profile picture of the author mymoney5243
    I will look into it ...Any suggestions on who might be willing to do this. I am using Front Page to build this site but it requires access for a data base..Which I have never used. So if you know someone who could help I would appreciate the info.

    Thanks
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  • well, not really. Thanks by the way. Haha.
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    • Profile picture of the author Bruce Hearder
      As you haven't used databases before I would suggest you do as one of the previous poster suggest and use GetAFreelNacer.com, RentACoder.com to get your site made.

      Once you spec out exactly what you want the site to do (and I mean exactly) and how you want it to took, I'm sure you could get someone on RentACoder.com to create the whole site for you a 'handfull of dollars".

      Plus they most probably will have the site up and running for you within 14-20 days, whereas if you had to do it yourself, you will be lucky if you had it up and running by Christmas (No insult intended, just that most newby webdesign take a lot longer to implement that ever anticipated).
      You may think that you can't afford to get the site put together by someone on RentACoder.com, but think what if you never managed to get this site off the ground because of your lack of database skills..

      Hope this helps

      Bruce
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      • Profile picture of the author mymoney5243
        I don't mind paying but I want quality work.. This is very important I must be able to manage the data base once it is set up. The reason is I have millions of refunds due people and only three states are in right now. I will have to add the other 47.
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  • Profile picture of the author mymoney5243
    If anyone is interested I just found out that OpenOffice.org has a Base processor (for free) that works with front page. Plus is very simple to use. I am going to check at the same time I am looking into having a free lancer do this. Thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author Alibaba
    mymoney,

    dont mean to be rude, but you say you want quality work but are willing to design a site yourself with frontpage?
    that just doesnt add up.

    my suggestion is you research WHAT is already avaible first before you post for freelance service...otherwise it will end up being a bad experience as your expecation and they delivery will be way off.
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  • Profile picture of the author d3sign3r
    I agree with Alibaba,

    You need to step to the next level, because the kind of site you're talking about will be using PHP at-least. And like others said, you gotta post this as a project and select someone to do it for you.
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  • Profile picture of the author racky
    Dear Sir,

    Your Refund Requirement is very Easy .

    We can provide you complete support for it.

    But We have various queries. How you going to define who is having refund.

    What i mean database of refunded people.

    Do you add that data manually or Want to Copy from Excel sheet or something.

    Another Query.

    Please provide how the people would contact you.

    via Phone or Feedback form.

    Tell Me the details, We can provide you the solution in 5 days.

    Best regards,
    Er. Vinod Verma

    Yahoo ID: donivamrev

    Contact us We are just One Click away.........
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