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title: "WordPress quote and RFQ system: enquiries you can actually price"
description: "Replace “send me your best price” with a request that arrives carrying the products, the quantities, the specification and the drawing — so the first reply can be a number."
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dateModified: 2026-09-09
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# WordPress quote and RFQ system: enquiries you can actually price

> A quote or RFQ system is an enquiry path built for businesses that do not sell at a published price. Instead of a contact form, the visitor collects products and quantities, answers the few questions you need in order to quote, attaches a drawing or artwork, and sends one structured request. The point is not to collect more information. It is to collect the specific things without which nobody in your office can produce a number.

## Who this is for

You quote rather than sell from a price list: manufacturers, job shops, wholesalers, exporters. Your enquiry form is a name, an email and a message box, and every message it produces starts a conversation of four more emails.

## The problem

The enquiry says “please send me your best price for your products”. Your salesperson writes back asking which product, what quantity, what material, what tolerance, delivered where. Two of those questions get answered. By the time you can quote, a week has gone and the buyer has a number from someone else.

## What we do

1. Work out what your office actually needs before it can quote. It is usually three or four things, and they are different in every trade — that conversation is the first half of the job.
2. Build a quote cart: the visitor collects several products with different quantities and sends them as one request, instead of one form per product.
3. Ask for the specification as fields rather than as a paragraph — material, thickness, tolerance, finish, delivery destination — so the reply is comparable and the request is searchable later.
4. Accept the file: drawing, artwork, spreadsheet, photo of the old part. Most enquiries that cannot be quoted are missing a file, not a sentence.
5. Price on the page where a formula genuinely exists, and stay honest where it does not.
6. Deliver the request where your team will actually see it: an inbox that is watched, a CRM record, or both — and decide on purpose who it goes to when there is more than one candidate.

## Proof

Open the demo below: a laser cutting shop’s enquiry page. Drop in a DXF and the site reads the outline, the cut length and the holes straight out of the file, prices it against material and quantity, and fills the result into the form that was already there. Nothing is guessed and nothing is uploaded to a third party. Alongside it, the dealer portal demo shows the other half of the same problem: what happens when the price depends on who is asking.

## FAQ

### Is this a “request a quote” plugin?

The off-the-shelf plugins give you a quote cart, and if a quote cart is all you need, use one. What they do not do is ask for your trade’s specification, read a file, apply your rules, or put the result where your team works. That is the part we build.

### Do we have to hide our prices?

No, and mixing works well: a public list price with a quote path for quantity, or a catalogue that is public with pricing behind an account. What matters is that the visitor can always do something — a page with no price and no path is where enquiries go missing.

### Can it work with WooCommerce?

Yes, either alongside it or instead of it. If you take card payments for some products and quote for others, both paths can live in the same catalogue. If you never take payment on the site, WooCommerce is not required at all.

### Where do the enquiries end up?

Wherever your team already works — an inbox, a CRM, a spreadsheet, a notification. Deciding that properly matters more than the form itself, which is why we treat it as a business rule rather than a setting.