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Manual Quoting
Businesses across trades and sales waste hours manually creating, revising, and chasing quotes that often never convert, causing lost jobs and margin leaks.
In their words
we are having an inflow of orders that is taking significant time for us to quote
a quote might take 30 to 60 mins to create but then sit 4 days waiting for pricing or approval
What should have been a quick approval turned into a 5 days of Slack messages and emails asking who is supposed to approve this and that.
Pricing lives within spreadsheets. Customer info is in crm. approvals happen in slack and we have to keep asking which version is correct.
Quoting takes time and you've hit the nail on the head - with a smaller business and fewer customers, you have time for faffing about with quotes.
we are having an inflow of orders that is taking significant time for us to quote
Twice this year a client has taken a quote I sent them, changed a number or a line item in it, and then argued that was the price we agreed on.
I look at the quote for 10 minutes and can immediately tell you we are going to go over budget and over hours.
for those 4 hours i could've literally been doing absolutely anything else
Generating quotes and datasheets took way too much of my time (about an hour to do 10 quotes).
I'd get the quote, show my boss/secretary, wait for approval, they wait for approval, get po, quote expired and redo the whole process again and again.
A potential buyer asks for pricing, product details, MOQ, lead time... Then I send the quote and suddenly... nothing.
Right now people just paste screenshots into a group chat and hope for the best.
What im trying to achive is an automation that based on customer information it gives me the list of materials.
Sales teams and tradespeople
Where they talk
- r/smallbusiness
- r/Machinists
- r/Handwerker
- r/Contractor
- r/estimators
- r/CommercialPrinting
- r/CNC
- r/manufacturing
Tools they use today
- Excel
- Salesforce
- Word
- QuickBooks
- CPQ
- Slack
- Claude
- HubSpot
Why those fall short
- PDF still editable; no proof of which version was sent
- quotes expire fast, prices swing 30% per quarter, no forecasting
- Sales staff misuse CAD licenses and no one checks quotes or scope changes
- no consistent quoting tool; customer functions don't work
- Pricing based on size, not operations; complex parts refused
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