Perfect for self employed people. Elfright User enters their home / work address. user sets a £ cost for mileage eg £0.54 per mile. They can add factors like 20 miles included for free. They can set different rates / conditions depending on how far. eg Over 100 miles, I want to also factor is £15 extra per 50 miles to cover travel time too. I have a HTML for this to aid the design team - I am not a coder and cannot easily edit this code to add the other factors I want to add.
The Widget User enters their post code. It calculates a total travel cost.
Sound intereasting, thanks for sharing your thoughts with us!
We can’t promise that a calculator with this functionality will be released. However, if more users get interested in this feature, we might consider it in the future updates
I have the code for this to fully function, if it would be helpful for your developers. Then, the user can just pick their coordinates using a map they can draw on to make an area that is covered, that can be put into the code (that’s the part you guys will need to do - a way to get the coordinates to paste into it, and I think you’d need a different API key for using map coordinates unless you can do that internally). My code currently has the option to automatically calculate approximate flight costs too when they type a country that’s abroad. There is a green (cost covered), amber (calculates travel fee), red (area not covered) system. So it can have different variables. You just change 1 number to change the £ per mile you want. I just really struggle with coding - it took about 100 hours of work to get to this point - I’m a musician, not a coder, and I love the CSS features of Elfsight which would help to make my Widgets look more on brand (which my version is currently lacking). Let me know if your team would ever be interested at taking a look at the code in its current format. Hopefully this will pick up interest!
The thing is that we have a set roadmap for our upcoming implementations. Integrating new ideas (even with ready code you have) there can be challenging, no matter how good they are.
Every feature has to go through a few stages first: design, then development, and finally testing to make sure everything works smoothly and doesn’t cause any unexpected issues. Since all of that takes time, we have to balance how popular a request is with how complex it is to implement.
If more people support your idea, it may be prioritized sooner — but for now, we unfortunately can’t make any promises.
