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Instant quoting for job shops
Quoting is the bottleneck and the estimator is one person. Automate the parts that are arithmetic and keep the judgement.
What is actually hard about this.
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One person knows how to price, and everything queues behind them.
- 02
The quotes that take longest are often the smallest, and the small ones are most of the volume.
- 03
You do not want a robot quoting the jobs that need looking at.
How shops like yours set it up.
Instant prices below a threshold, review above it
The rule is yours: value, size, quantity, material. Below it the widget answers; above it the job arrives in your inbox already measured.
Floors that protect the small jobs
Per part, per line and per order, so a five-minute job never quotes at five minutes’ worth of machine.
Golden parts
Pin the jobs whose right price you know. Any change you make is checked against all of them before you publish it.
Formulas for the rule nobody else has
The surcharge, the batch rule, the customer-specific arrangement - written down once instead of remembered.
The short list.
- Review thresholds
- Part, line and order minimums
- Golden parts and the simulator
- Formula layer
- PDF quotes with your terms
Not quite you?
Print farms
Dozens of near-identical machines, thin margins, and a queue that has to stay full. Quote in seconds and let the arithmetic be right at volume.
Read moreService bureaus
Several processes, real lead times and buyers who compare you against three other quotes. Answer first, and answer with a breakdown.
Read moreMakerspaces & universities
Members and departments rather than customers, cost codes rather than card payments, and a rate card somebody has to be able to justify.
Read moreInternal labs
A shop inside a company, charging other teams. The price has to be defensible internally, and the queue has to be visible.
Read moreBring a part you quoted by hand.
Price it on the free plan with your own machines and rates, and see where the engine agrees with you, and why it does not.
Free plan, no card. Paid plans by the month, cancel any time.