Manufacturing Quoting and Estimating Software for Manufacturers
Cut the time it takes to send quotations to your customers with QuickWorks. Our manufacturing quoting software gives you the ability to produce professional customer quotes quickly and accurately, freeing up your time to improve and grow your business.
Easily generate professional looking quotes
Manufacturing quoting and estimating key features
- Create your estimates and quotations quickly
- Create Bill of Materials (material costs) and Routings (labour/process costs) to ensure your profit margins are acceptable
- Create your quotations based on detailed or budgetry estimates/costs
- Email your quotations directly to customers from QuickWorks
- Mark your quotations as won or lost
- Keep track of your previous quotations
- View and manage your live quotations at any time, using the dashboard
- Get going quickly, by converting your quotations into orders at the click of a button
What is manufacturing estimating software?
Manufacturing estimating software, sometimes known as quotation management software, manufacturing quoting software, manufacturing costing software, machine shop estimating software or production estimating software, helps you produce manufacturing estimates and, in most cases, customer quotations, so that your manufacturing jobs can be costed, before creating customer your quotations. The estimates are based on the cost of materials, labour, subcontract work, tooling and other costs.
The primary aim of manufacturing estimating software is to create estimates, ensuring your jobs are costed correctly. For those manufacturing estimating software packages that include customer quotations, the secondary aim is to create your quotations quickly and accurately, ensuring that they are profitable. Being able to store quotations in a single manufacturing estimating software system, makes it easy to retrieve your past quotations and convert them into orders.
What is manufacturing quoting software?
Manufacturing quoting software, sometimes known as quotation management software, manufacturing estimating software, machine shop estimating software or production estimating software, helps you produce manufacturing estimates and customer quotations, so that your manufacturing jobs can be costed before creating your customer quotations. The estimates are based on the cost of materials, labour, subcontract work, tooling, etc.
The aim of manufacturing quoting software is to create your quotations quickly and accurately, ensuring that they are profitable (i.e. they are based on accurate estimates and the correct margins). Being able to store quotations in a single manufacturing estimating software system, makes it easy to retrieve your past quotations and convert them into orders.
How are manufacturing estimates and quotations created?
The foundation for a customer quotation is the estimate. Estimates, which could be called costings, should include all your direct costs (i.e. material, labour, sub-contract work, tooling, consumables, etc) associated with a job. Where one off-costs are involved (e.g. set up time, tooling, CAD programming, etc), they should be amortised across the entire batch being produced (i.e. divide the cost by the number of parts being produced in a batch). To create estimates, most customer quoting software will collect the costs using a Bill of Materials (all purchased items) and a Routing (labour and process costs). Once your estimate is complete, a price can be determined by applying a margin. This margin needs to cover the overheads of the business and the profit you wish to make. The margin is typically added as a percentage of the cost. At this point, your customer quotation, which usually includes the payment terms, can be created and sent to your customer.
What is the best manufacturing quoting software for my business?
The best manufacturing quoting software for your business is the software that fits the characteristics and dynamics of your business. There is a trade-off between complexity and agility. Some businesses need highly configurable manufacturing quoting software, as they have very specific requirements. Some businesses have set processes that insist that all jobs are fully costed, before a customer quotation is produced. Other businesses, typically small responsive manufacturers, require a flexible and easy to use system that allows them to produce either fully costed or budgetry quotations quickly, depending on the needs of the customer.
How can QuickWorks's manufacturing quoting software help improve my business?
QuickWorks manufacturing quoting software will save you time, whilst producing professional looking quotations that can be emailed directly to your customers. QuickWorks, having been designed for small, dynamic manufacturers, will not only help you quote quickly, it will also allow you to produce either fully costed or budgetry quotations, depending on your needs at the time. Consequently, if you are looking for quotation software for small businesses, QuickWorks could be your answer.
How QuickWorks helps you run your manufacturing business
QuickWorks MRP provides all the functionality to run your day-to-day operations smoothly
Subcontract Management
Easily send and receive jobs for subcontract processing.
Quality Compliance
Provide complete traceability and produce certificates of conformity.
Accounts Integration
Integrate with Sage, Xero, QuickBooks and more
What people say about QuickWorks
"I’d thoroughly recommend QuickWorks to SME businesses seeking an easy-to-use MRP package that reduces manual data input, provides easy workflow and traceability from quote, to order, to route card to invoice. Great team and great product."
- Paul Ward, Partner, Belgrave & Powell Limited
Why has QuickWorks been developed?
QuickWorks has been developed by individuals who have over 30 years of experience working with small manufacturing businesses
"Without an effective manufacturing system many small businesses struggle to grow, as they find it impossible to migrate away from micro-management. Therefore, it is essential the system is not only easy to adopt, it must enable them to transfer task ownership and decision making."
- Tony Prouse, Co-Founder