Do you need a calculator attached to a product to calcualte the correct amount of the product to meet the customers requirements.

We have designed and installed a number of custom calculators integrated into Actinic sites fo a number of applications

1/ Pond Liner Size, custoemr enters detaisl of the pond and the calcualtor gives the required size and the price of the liner using multiple liner products and a selectable underlay. Calculator also handles limits on size of relevant product.

2/ Quantity and colour of paint based on the area to be painted, taking account of the minimum quantity, coverage value for selected paint, size of containers to use. Includes a pop up colour selector that feeds the selected value back to the product page and includes the details in the order.

3/ Number of packs of wooden flooring based on required area taking account of pack size and price for selectable options displaying the number of packs to order and the price.

All calculators update automatically as values or selections are changed, and link directly into the ordering variables so the customer only needs to click 'Add to Cart' when satisfied.

Contact us at Tod Designs with your requirements

Engineers at Tod Designs have been working with database systems since the 1980's and have many years experience in dealing with customised links between databases and other systems such as spreadsheets or other database system. We have designed custom interfaces into the Actinic database for clients and use one in our Wish List Plugin.

We use a variety of software packages to interface to the Actinic database including PHP for inline code within the Actinic system and VB and C++.

We also produce a PHP based package that can import data from an Excel spreadsheet into Actinic, this uses a browser interface that runs on a PC providing a graphical user interface to the software instead of the more conventional command line interface to PHP.

PHP code is highly optimised for working with databases which allows us to quickly produce custom interfaces that will run on the GUI environment of a standard PC that people are used to using.

PHP will also run on other operating systems thus making the software transferable to a linux server environment..