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DeviantArt USD to Point Calculator Alpha version 1.6
THIS CALCULATOR USES UNITED STATES DOLLAR (USD) CURRENCY AND CONVERTS DOLLAR AMOUNT INTO DEVIANTART POINTS.
Created in Adobe Flash CS3 AS 2.0
Premium Content | Commission Widget Disclaimer
As of Jan 2013 DeviantArt introduced a way to generate earnings using either st.ash or uploading DA deviations as Premium Content. https://my.deviantart.com/art/Selling-on-the-Premium-Content-Platform-358249310 (This also applies to the Commission Widget ) This allows you to earn money by selling additional downloadable content or services. It can be withdrawn as real world currency or converted back to DA :points: It is important to know when uploading Premium content values you are only accounting for your "Gross Earnings" at the time of upload. This is the value before the 20% tax gets taken out. This calculator accounts for your "Net Earnings". Net (or Nett) refers to the amount left over after all tax deductions are made. If you are uploading Premium Content or offering Commissions please account for the 20% tax before you use this calculator.
100:points: = 1$ (is your Gross Earnings) only before the 20% tax gets taken out. After 80:points: = 1$ (is your Net Earnings).
Your Net Earnings is the actual value points are worth across DeviantArt. When you click on the "shops tab > Points Balance" it will show your net points total for your account.
Basically what you need to do is find out what you want to charge per transaction and add 20%. Mapped out here is the first $100 with the added 20% conversion. In other words if you want to make 5 dollars, you would actually charge 6.25 So on and so forth.
[ $what you want to make = $what you should charge ]
$1 = (Not listing, you should be charging more for your art )$5 = $6.25
$10 = $12.50
$15 = $18.75
$20 = $25
$25 = $31.25
$30 = $37.50
$35 = $43.75
$40 = $50
$45 = $56.25
$50 = $62.50
$55 = $68.75
$60 = $75
$65 = $81.25
$70 = $87.50
$75 = $93.75
$80 = $100
$85 = $106.25
$90 = $112.5
$95 = $118.75
$100 = $125
More on how to price your art,please read this journal:https://www.deviantart.com/dansyron/journal/YOUR-ART-HAS-VALUE-and-how-to-price-it-589455064
Artist Comments
Part of the reason why I've strayed away from doing point commissions on DA is because I'm really not good at math. Figuring out the conversion rate between USD amount into DA points takes me about 2-5 minutes per calculation. (I have to usually triple check my math ) Which is why this calculator was born! My husband did the coding for it and I designed the interface and how it functions. There is one other Deviant art point converter http://fav.me/d30haz0 but I wasn't happy with the drop down feature as its function wasn't really necessary. Important things to note, we tested this calculator on many of the items in the DA store. All the calculations came out correctly with out the round up feature.
When using this calculator you need to use the decimal to indicate cents. Using no decimal will indicate just the dollar amount.
If you find any bugs or anything wonky please comment or send me a note. This flash file is intended to also help other artists! Sharing is caring, but please credit the original source.
( Update Aug 2019 ) Unfortunately I had to turn off comments to this deviation due to a spam, people begging for points, self advertising and a high velocity of aggressive and attacking comments. Attacking me or anyone on my pages will grant you a instant block.
What are points?
► b0r3d13 did an excellent job breaking down the basics of points! so check it out! http://fav.me/d4aq13e
Regarding different country's currency's
:earth: Its been suggested by multiple people that there should be different currency's represented by this calculator. We actually planed to do this but hit a pretty major road block. Since the currency exchange rate changes daily, we would have to pull the numbers daily as well for the equation to work. Right we're now not sure how to do this or even if it is possible. So for now I suggest using Oanda currency converter http://www.oanda.com/currency/converter/ after using this point conversion calculator.
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Thank you for the DD and all the wonderful comments! Honestly it was a surprise. I just wanted to make an easy to use converter which has a simple to use interface with no buttons, drop down menus or fuss. I hope this will serve the Deviant Community well!
Credits and Special Thanks to:
DeviantArt Logo = n0M3n http://fav.me/dapiac
DeviantArt Point Logo = atti12 http://fav.me/d2qvmkf
Math Conversion Documentation = RenaKigakari https://renakigakari.deviantart.com/
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:points: Use this calculator often? Any donation is much appreciated for the long hours put into my free resources. See my DA homepage Thanks!
:bug: :bug: Version number and Bug Notes :bug: :bug:
v1.6 My previous versions had the entire thing working with numbers. When dealing with numbers, it makes adding a 0 behind a decimal somewhat difficult. I’m sure there are a thousand easier ways to do it but this was seems to be working with flying colors. Now it works using strings instead of numerical values. I converted the string into a number and run the math. Meanwhile, I have all these checks on the string to make sure the number fields look exactly how its intended to be used. I also changed the way it hunts for zeroes and decimals which makes it much more efficient.
In short re-wrote most of the engine for these fixes. Thanks to Tekarah, murisakii, oujinx, Dediggefedde, Elemental-Quest, and jujukittychick for the bug reports. If anything else seems wonky please let me know in the comments below.
v1.5 - Thanks for the DD! and with more eyes means more bugs to debunk!
Kodai-Az-Kite reported the over 9000 bug. To where if you typed in $112.52 it should = 9001 but instead gave you 9001.6. This was an easy fix, a rounding calculation was disabled in version 1.4 so we just re-enabled it.
cybertim reported the endless zero bug to where 00100 = 5120, while 100 = 8000. This was a bit more complex to fix. Not to say anyone would really need to put 000 before the number but if you did it broke it. So the fix was to convert the number into a string and put it back in. Hopefully this fixes the issue while not breaking anything else.
v1.4 - Allows for you to copy and paste the content. Didn't allow you too in older versions.
v1.3 - Fixed the crappy backspace to 0 issue. Now you can type in the field boxes without getting the hang up.
v1.2 - Made a edit if you want to know how much DA Points are worth in dollar amount you can type in the DA Point text field. Auto highlight in text field is now active. However this change is a little weird in that if you backspace the 0 the file can hang up a tad. If this happens click in the field to reactive it or ctrl+a to auto select.
v1.1 - Small bug, if you typed in a dollar amount with characters exceeding 13 spaces, DA point value showed decimal places. Quick fix this version limited how many characters you type in the USD field box. Bug reported by 10Sly10
V1.0 - DA Alpha launch original version