How can a print or promo shop send quotes in seconds instead of thirty minutes?

A quote on Brandfora is an editable cart with a store attached, built from your catalog in seconds instead of the 30 to 50 minutes a quote takes by hand.

You pick items from the master catalog while the customer is still on the phone. Pricing comes from the price list, so quantity tiers and size surcharges are already right, and the margin readout shows what each line makes before you send it. Artwork has already been checked against the print zones, so nothing on the quote is a maybe. The buyer opens a link, changes sizes and colors, watches the price move across the tiers, and pays on the same page. If procurement needs a PDF, it is the same quote with one click. If they want to keep ordering, the quote turns into a standing store on their own subdomain.

The hand-built version is a supplier site in one tab, a decorating cost sheet in another, a spreadsheet for the math and a document template for the layout. Call it 30 to 50 minutes. Then they ask about navy, and it is another 30. Most shops lose these deals to whoever answered first, not to whoever priced best.

This fits any print shop, decorator or promotional products distributor quoting all day, and reps working inside a network. The caveat: a quote is only as fast as your catalog and price list are complete. A one-off sourced item still needs sourcing and a call to a supplier. Everything you sell regularly prices itself, which is most of the volume.

See the quote cart, or how a quote becomes a store for reorders.