New Quote
An Easy Quote is a Quote that can be quickly created with a Description of the items being quoted - to create an Easy Quote see Easy Quote.
This part of the help system shows how to create more complex Quotes with individual cost lines.
To do this
- Make sure you have set up a Quote Template - see Set Up Quote Template. A Quote Template is a predefined format for a Quote.
A Quote Template allows
- Products (effectively this is labor)
- Materials
- Additional Costs
- and the markups for these
- and the order that these are to be displayed
- and whether these should be visible or not in the Client's copy of the Quote
to be quickly retrieved, ensuring consistent formatting of Quotes.
- Make sure you have the appropriate costs set up. Costs can be labor related costs (use a Product for these), Material related costs or some other cost (use Additional Costs for these).
- see Set Up Products on how to set up Products and labor related costs
- see Set Up Suppliers on how to set up Materials and Material costs
- see Set Up Additional Costs on how to set up Additional (non labor or non Material costs)
- From the main menu select Quote > New Quote. You should see a page similar to
- Note that the Quote Template defaults to Description Only (highlighted above).
Select the Quote Template you wish to use - to add additional Quote Templates see Set Up Quote Templates
Once you have selected the appropriate Template, this will add various cost headings - see highlighted below as an example (this this will vary depending on the Quote Template you have set up and selected)
- Enter the
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Quote Number. Empower Quoting allows for automatic Quote Numbers - to allow this see Automatic Quote Numbers
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Customer
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Date and Job Name
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The Quote Required By date. This can be automatically populated - see Quote Settings
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The date the Quote is valid to. This can be automatically populated - see Quote Settings
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Additional Quote Information. Clicking on this displays additional Quote information
- Deposit Information. Clicking on this displays deposit related information
Your page should look similar to
- Now enter costs - for Products, Materials and Additional Costs
- Click on Save, to save the Quote
- Note that for Products it is possible to add Notes - see highlighted below.
Clicking on this will display something similar to
- To print or email the Quote click on Print Quote - for more information see Emailing a Quote.
- To Share a quote click on Share Quote - for more information see Share Quote.