Quote maker
A tidy, itemised quote with your logo, the totals and a date it runs out — as a PDF you can send today.
- It all happens here
- Every part runs in your browser. Nothing you type is uploaded, and it works with the internet off.
- No account, ever
- No sign-up, no email address, no trial that turns into a bill.
- Yours to use
- Nothing watermarked, nothing limited to a preview.
You
Kept on this device, so you only type it once.
If you are registered for VAT or sales tax, most authorities require it on the document.
Who it is for
Your customer’s details are deliberately not remembered.They are somebody else’s information, and this may not be your only computer.
Reference
Any format you like, as long as you can find it again when they accept.
Without one, a customer can accept a price you gave before your costs went up. Thirty days is the usual convention.
The work
More detail invites better questions. One line saying “kitchen refit” invites only one.
Money
Taken off before tax — tax is owed on what you actually charge.
The bottom of the page
The totals
- Subtotal
- $0.00
Needs your business name, who it is for, and at least one line with a description.
Roughly how it will look
Your business
QUOTE
Prepared for
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Quote number: Q-0001
Valid until: 2026-09-15
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The PDF is laid out properly with your logo, wrapped descriptions and the full addresses — this is just the shape of it.
What this is, if you have never had to think about it
Most people arrive here having been told they need one of these, without being told what it is. Nothing below assumes you already know.
A quote and an estimate are different promises
A quote is a fixed price: this is what it will cost. An estimate is a considered guess: this is roughly what it will cost, and it may move. In many places that distinction has legal weight, so the word you use matters. If the work might change once you have opened the wall, say estimate and say why.
Always put an expiry date on it
Without one, a quote is open indefinitely — and a customer can accept a price you gave before your supplier put their costs up. Thirty days is the usual convention. It also does something quieter and more useful: it gives a customer who has gone quiet an honest reason to be nudged, which is a much easier email to write than one that begins "just following up".
Itemise more than feels necessary
A single line reading "kitchen refit — $8,000" invites one question: why so much. The same work broken into materials, labour, disposal and finishing invites better questions, and lets a customer take something out rather than walking away from all of it. Detail also protects you later, when somebody remembers a thing being included that was never on the list.
Questions people ask
The quote you send is the easy half. The four you are waiting on are not.
Invoices keeps every quote in one list — sent, seen, accepted, gone quiet — and turns an accepted one into the actual bill without you retyping a single line.
