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by markdown 2232 days ago
Looks great. Congratulations.

(Hopefully constructive) feedback:

1.) Why only four currencies? Now I can't use it. Netflix has helped normalize credit card usage all across the world, so your potential market is huge, but you've only targeted four countries. I don't get that.

2.) All price/currency fields have placeholders in the format 0.00. When I click on one of these fields, I expect it to go blank so that I can enter my own price. So I just click anywhere on that field and start typing. If I happen to have clicked after the decimal point, and try to type in 2000 (meaning $2000), the value I end up with is "0.200". This is unexpected behaviour for a form field, at least for me.

3.) In your quote entry form, you need to widen the tax % field. When I enter 0.09, the 9 is half cut off.

1 comments

Thanks for taking your time and the compliments. It means a lot!

1- The app is like in alpha/beta stage right now. I planned to put currencies in the database but it was too much work for an MVP so I literally typed them into the template lol. Which currency do you need? I can add it manually now and be sure to have it in the database when I make the transition.

2- Agreed. Number inputs are funky. Tried to have custom Javascript for the minimal asset size but I didn't do well. I'll use some 3rd party plugin for those.

3- Noted. One question though. Why do you type 0.09 in a percentage field? Is it just a test or do you really have 0.09% (9 in ten thousand) tax rate?

> Which currency do you need?

Oh don't trouble yourself on my account. I have no urgent use for it, so will just wait for it to be done properly.

And you're right about the percentage field. I didn't notice that 9% was correct for that field rather than 0.09.