Easily interact with customers regarding new best prices for products with Magento 2 Quote Extension. Make highly personalized purchasing offers and grow sales revenue by understanding buyers’ demands.
Let customers create quotes from any web store page
Auto approve quotes with the specified discount amount
Allow guest visitors to add products to quote
Hide prices for particular products and customer groups
Analyze customer demands and predict profitable prices
🚩 Challenge
In the modern, highly competitive e-commerce environment, merchants need an extremely flexible pricing approach to cover all the versatile demands of B2B and B2C customers. But how to accurately predict market dynamics? How to explore how much buyers are eager to pay and make equally beneficial purchasing offers for different types of customers?
💫 Solution
Magento 2 Quote is a solution that helps you to create accurately adjusted pricing offers for both B2B and B2C customers. Let buyers comfortably negotiate over the prices and create quotes in one click from any web store page. Promptly customize the offer based on customers’ type or order size, thus motivating them for new orders.
What benefits do you get for your store
🏹
Beat competitors by offering the most suitable pricing with one-click quotation
🎯
Build a profitable pricing strategy exactly knowing the needs of your buyers
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Enhance customer loyalty and grow revenue by letting users suggest best-suitable prices
Automate request a quote process to save time
With Magento 2 Request for Quote, buyers can add products to quote in one click from category and product pages as well as from the shopping cart. Let customers suggest new best-suited prices and add remarks to each quote item.
Request a quote from any page
Add any product to quote
Decrease cart abandonment rate
Provide buyers with a mini quote cart
Let customers suggest prices
NEW| Disable price suggestions
Request a quote from any page
With the flexible quote system for Magento 2, customers can easily add products to quote from category pages and comfortably continue their shopping. No need to adjust prices and quantities at once. Buyers can return to Magento quote items any time later.
Add any product to quote
If buyers need more details before adding items to quote, they can go straight to the product page, explore all product info and view images. Here they can also choose the required options and add the product to quote.
Decrease cart abandonment rate
What if your customers have already added some products to cart, but still have some doubts about the prices or questions? For example, they may want to know how the price will change depending on the order size. Motivate customers to make a purchase from your website by requesting a quote right from the shopping cart.
Provide buyers with a mini quote cart
Equip your web store with a handy mini quote cart, that can be viewed by customers from any web store page. Here the buyers can quickly look through the Magento 2 items added to quote before placing the order, edit the quantities or remove some of the products if needed.
Let customers suggest prices
With Magento 2 Request for Quote, a customer can suggest a new best-suited price and add remarks as to the whole quote, so per item. Moreover, if a product has a tier price and a customer suggests the price that is higher, the module will automatically suggest the best one for him.
Disable price suggestions
In many cases, customers may not know what price would be the best for some products, and they become confused when it comes to price suggestions. Now the extension allows you to disable price changes for customers so that they could easily ask for discounts without specific price offerings.
Involve potential buyers into pricing negotiations
Magento 2 Quotation extension also includes Hide Price package. So, what does it mean for you?
Now the extension allows you to disable ordering and hide product prices for specific products and for particular customer groups or guest visitors. You can hide prices, leaving the 'Add to Quote' button available. You may also replace the 'Add to cart' option with a custom button to encourage customers to specify their contact info or perform the action you need. This way you'll better understand customer demands and effectively adjust your pricing strategy.
Efficiently manage quote requests
With Magento 2 Quote Module, you can easily manage all quote requests from the backend. Check customers’ info and adjust prices. Automatically approve magento b2b quotes with the specified discount amount. Set expiry dates thus motivating them to make purchasing decisions faster. Let customers comfortably track their requests from the account and quickly move any quote to the shopping cart.
Efficiently manage from admin
Check customer information
Customize pricing offer
NEW| Adjust shipping options
Enable customers track their quotes
Let buyers quickly move quote to cart
Efficiently manage from admin
From the admin panel, you can conveniently view and manage all the quote requests in a grid. Accept or cancel a quote, filter by status or expiry date, create a new one on behalf of a customer. Access any quote to view details and edit.
Check customer information
Check customer info before making a decision regarding the quote submission: evaluate when the account was created and how much the customer spent during that time. Set the quote expiry date and a reminder to fasten the customer’s buying decision. You can convert a quote into the Magento 2 order right from the quote editing page. Also you can download the quote in PDF and auto attach it to the approved quote customer notification.
Customize pricing offer
Approve the prices asked by a customer or set your custom prices. View the product cost column to see the difference between requested price and product’s cost. Magento 2 Quote Extension also allows you to set an additional discount or surcharge, which will be applied to the whole quote. Complement the quote with your remarks to keep up a dialog with a customer.
Adjust shipping options
As an administrator, you can customize delivery options that will be applied to the quote products. It is possible to choose one of the customer shipping addresses or add a new one. Select shipping method or add a custom method with a particular fee. Moreover, you may disallow users to modify delivery options preselected by you.
Enable customers track their quotes
Customers can check their previous and current quotes under ‘My Quotes’ section in their accounts, where all the requests are listed with the status, proposal and expiry date. They can easily move submitted requests to the shopping cart, or access each quote to view proposal details.
Let buyers quickly move quote to cart
Allow customers to quickly convert a submitted quote into an order with Magento 2 Quote Module. Once the quote request is approved by the admin, the customer is able to move all products to the Shopping Cart or directly to the Checkout. Customers can also download the PDF copy of the quote if needed.
Increase your customers’ engagement with extra options
Add Magento 2 AJAX Shopping Cart and Magento 2 Custom Form to make your customers even more engaged. Display appealing popups, making the customers’ shopping experience more simple and flawless. Easily create custom quote request forms via a handy constructor and obtain more customer information.
Let buyers enjoy the shopping process
Get more customer request information
Let buyers enjoy the shopping process
Add Magento 2 AJAX Shopping Cart and enable customers to easily select configurable options and edit items in the pop-up without wasting time on page reloads. Show confirmation pop-ups with the product info, display related products pop-ups, enable flying effect for add-to-quote process, and many more.
Get more customer request information
Employ Magento 2 Custom Form to effectively collect additional customers’ data. Create quote request forms of various types, adding the phone number, company name, Google Maps or any other field. Therefore, you'll enrich your client database and obtain more information to create appealing offers for your customers.
More Features for Magento 2 Request a Quote module
Allow or disallow quotation for specific products or categories
Create and get Magento 2 quote from a customer's order
Download quotes in PDF both from backend and frontend
Auto-send reminders when quote proposal is about to expire
NEW | Set required fields to display for guest quotation
Install and enable the Magento 2 Request a Quote extension.
Go to Stores → Configuration → Amasty Extensions → Request a Quote.
In the General tab, enable the Add to Quote button on the product and category page, disable quotation for specific categories, and allow quote requests for certain customer groups.
Set the Allow to change Price in Quote Cart and Approve Quotes Automatically fields to Yes to enable auto-approve of quotes.
Then enter the discount amount in the “if Quote Discount is Less than (%)” field.
Choose the needed Cost Attribute and move to the Expiration & Reminder tab.
In the Quote Expiration field, set default quote lifetime.
Set the period after which the Magento 2 email reminder about quote expiration will be sent.
Set up Admin and Customer Notifications.
Save the changes.
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How to configure quote lifetime in Magento 2?
Log in to the admin panel and navigate to Stores → Settings → Configuration.
Open the Sales tab and click Checkout.
In the Shopping Cart section, find the Quote Lifetime (days) field and enter the needed value.
In the Use In Layered Navigation dropdown, choose between Filterable (with results) and Filterable (no results).
Save the changes.
What is the Magento 2 Quote?
Magento 2 quote is a tool that allows customers to negotiate a price with you by creating a quote. This allows you to quickly determine the price of the product depending on the type or size of the order and improve shopping experience.
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Fix placing quote order no longer triggers reminder email
Fix we fixed the issue with the missing quote button on the search results page
Fix we resolved the issue with PDF template scope
Fix now prefix and suffix fields are displayed according to the configuration
Fix we adjusted quote button styles
Fix we resolved the issue with the email confirmation link for guest customers
2.3.5 - Mar 29, 2021
Fix we fixed the visual issue with the quote mini cart
2.3.4 - Jan 21, 2021
Fix we corrected the quote PDF downloading on multistore instances
2.3.3 - Dec 21, 2020
New we covered the main plugin's features with MFTF tests. It will help to improve quality and stability of our extension
Compatibility we enhanced compatibility with Amasty Jet Theme
2.3.2 - Nov 20, 2020
Compatibility we implemented an integration with Advanced Reports extension and added a new report type, which allows you to monitor quotes overview by their status
2.3.1 - Nov 16, 2020
Fix we corrected the issue with a quote creation process from administrative panel for a new customer
2.3.0 - Sep 21, 2020
New now quotes can be downloaded in PDF format both from backend and frontend. In addition, you can automatically attach PDF to the Approved Quote customer notification and configure PDF content according to your needs on store view level
Improvement we significantly enhanced extension performance on large catalogs
Improvement now it is possible to set a product price higher than the original one while editing a quote from admin panel
Compatibility we improved the compatibility with Magento 2.2.x
Version 2.2.4
Last Update: Aug 13, 2020
2.2.4 - Aug 13, 2020
Improvement we corrected showing quote subtotal depend on Magento Tax configuration
Compatibility now the extension is compatible with Amasty Jet Theme
Fix we resolved issue with blank checkout page in some cases
2.2.3 - Jul 20, 2020
Fix we fixed the deletion of an item from shopping cart in case it was added after approved quote
Fix we corrected the display of enabled categories list in extension's configuration
Fix we resolved the issue with quote creation from backend if 2FA is used to login to the admin panel
2.2.2 - Jun 03, 2020
Fix we corrected the functioning of notifications and usage of shipping in quotes on Magento v. 2.3.0 and below
2.2.1 - May 11, 2020
Compatibility we reviewed and enhanced compatibility with split database performance solution
2.2.0 - Mar 31, 2020
New we added the ability to predefine shipping address and method from administrative panel (along with an option to restrict modifying the chosen address and method on checkout)
New besides default shipping methods it's possible to choose custom shipping method and apply custom fee
New ?reate New Customer option is now available on Quotes grid as well
Improvement we limited the approval of quotes created in backend without products to avoid confusion of customers on the storefront
Version 2.1.0
Last Update: Mar 24, 2020
2.1.0 - Mar 24, 2020
New now you can disable price changes in Quote Cart if necessary
New all required registration fields are now prompted to be filled in by not logged in users on Quote Cart (Magento Commerce admins can also configure additional Customer Attributes for displaying)
New from now extension takes tier pricing into account and automatically offers best price for your customers
New now it's possible to create quote in admin panel for customer from any store view (even if he/she doesn't belong to the corresponding website)
Improvement we rechecked and established correct dependency on jQuery UI library
Improvement now the customer notification about the quote created from administrative panel contains detailed information about the approved quote
Fix we resolved an issue with wrong Email Sender upon multistore configuration
Version 2.0.5
Last Update: Feb 18, 2020
2.0.5 - Feb 18, 2020
Compatibility compatibility with Amasty Hide Price was improved
Fix issue with taxes after customer login was resolved
Fix we corrected quote update date format
2.0.4 - Jan 28, 2020
Compatibility compatibility with Magento 2.3.4 was improved
2.0.3 - Oct 01, 2019
Compatibility we enhanced compatibility with Hide Price plugin even more. If the price is configured to be hidden, the customer will not see this price in quote cart as well
Compatibility now the module allows displaying Add To Quote button for custom product types
Fix incorrect behavior of Review Reminder on cron run was resolved
2.0.2 - Sep 20, 2019
Compatibility we improved the compatibility with AJAX Shopping Cart module
2.0.1 - Sep 09, 2019
Fix we fixed the issue with quote submission by a guest customer if required fields are not filled in
Fix we corrected the display of product input price on the quote cart page
2.0.0 - Sep 03, 2019
New we added Hide Price package to the extension. Now you are free to use all Hide Price benefits according to your needs: disable ordering, hide prices for particular products or customer groups, etc. which will provide even more involving of potential buyers into pricing negotiations
New now, the extension includes a new option that allows you to approve quotes automatically if the discount of the submitted quote is less than the specified percentage amount
New we added the new column ‘Cost’ to the request page in the backend. It will make the decision-making process easier because admin will see the difference between the requested price and the product’s cost. The setting to choose which attribute will be used as ‘Cost’ attribute is added as well
New we introduced a new option with the help of which you can add an additional % of discount/surcharge to the submitted quote. Now, there is no need to insert custom prices, you can just insert a % number of discount/surcharge which will be applied to the whole quote
Improvement we added several fields with information about customers right to the quote edit page. Now you can easily evaluate when the account was created and how much has the customer spent during that time, which may help to make a decision about quote approving quicker
Improvement we improved the quote view page in customer’s account: new columns (requested price, approved price, discount amount) were added to the table, which makes the data displayed more evident and convenient
Compatibility we enhanced the compatibility with AJAX Shopping Cart extension
Fix minor issues were resolved
Version 1.5.1
Last Update: Aug 20, 2019
1.5.1 - Aug 20, 2019
Fix issue with Request a Quote Grid sorting was resolved
1.5.0 - Aug 16, 2019
New we added an option that allows guests to add products to quote. Guest users are asked for an email address when submitting the quote request
New we added an option that allows admin to create a quote from the created order
New we added API methods that allow admin to connect quote requests and proposals to and from other systems such as ERP and CRM. The following endpoints have been added: Get Quote, Approve Quote, Expire Quote, Add Quote Comment and Add Quote Item Note
Improvement we added an option that allows admin to select whether to receive email reports for new quote requests instantly upon quote submission or with custom frequency, e.g. daily, weekly or monthly
Fix we have fixed an issue with Email Template for Submitted Quote
Version 1.4.4
Last Update: Jul 25, 2019
1.4.4 - Jul 25, 2019
Fix issue with displaying submitted data was resolved
1.4.3 - Jul 04, 2019
Fix minor issues were resolved
1.4.2 - Jun 26, 2019
Compatibility compatibility with Amasty Ajax Cart was improved
1.4.1 - Jun 21, 2019
Improvement we corrected the calculation and displaying of taxed prices in Quote Cart
Fix issue with not loadable Email Templates was fixed
1.4.0 - Jun 13, 2019
New ability to include tax in the requested price was added. It is useful for B2C when the store is set to use taxes (European VAT) and the 'Prices including tax' setting is enabled
Version 1.3.2
Last Update: May 20, 2019
1.3.2 - May 20, 2019
Fix issue with Quote view page was resolved
1.3.1 - May 01, 2019
Compatibility compatibility with Magento 2.1.5 was improved
1.3.0 - Apr 16, 2019
New ability to inform guests to log in for adding products to quote was added
New ability to move approved quote directly to checkout from the customer account was added
New ability to add bundle product to the quotation was added
New admin is able to create quotes in the back end and to send custom quotes to customers so they go ahead and convert it to order and pay for it via the standard checkout
Version 1.2.1
Last Update: Apr 05, 2019
1.2.1 - Apr 05, 2019
Fix an issue with expiry date was resolved
1.2.0 - Apr 02, 2019
New ability to send customers automatic reminder emails when quote proposal is about to expire was added. Admin can configure the global setting and set a number of days prior to expiry for each quote individually
New ability to set quote expiration date was added. Admin can configure the global setting and set a number of days prior to expiry for each quote individually
New ability to manage all existing cron tasks on a Cron Tasks List grid in the backend was added. Run cron tasks and generate their schedule by clicking the ‘Run Cron’ button. Also, delete tasks in bulk, apply filtering and sorting options when it is needed
Version 1.1.0
Last Update: Mar 19, 2019
1.1.0 - Mar 19, 2019
New admin daily email reports with all new Quote Requests was added
New ability to move items from the cart to quote request was added. 'Move to Quote' button is available at the Shopping Cart page now
New ability to enable/disable quotation for each product and category was added
New the tax support was added. The tax is calculated based on customer default shipping address
Compatibility compatibility with Amasty Hide Price extension allows to disable ordering and/or hide the product price leaving the 'Add to Quote' button available
Version 1.5.21
Last Update: Aug 18, 2021
1.5.21 - Aug 18, 2021
Compatibility we improved the compatibility with Amasty Advanced Search extension
Fix we corrected the display of configurable options in dropdown in case it’s the only dropdown on PDP
1.5.20 - Jan 13, 2021
Improvement we adjusted the extension functioning regarding Configurable Products
Fix we resolved the issue with hiding of tier prices for Bundle Product options
1.5.19 - Sep 30, 2020
Fix we synchronized the displayed time of Get a Quote Requests creation on the grid and on the view page
Fix we resolved the issue occurred upon item moving to Wishlist from Shopping Cart
1.5.18 - Aug 10, 2020
Compatibility ?ompatibility with Magento 2.4 was added
1.5.17 - Jul 14, 2020
Improvement now hiding of Add to Cart button is not only visual, but also restricts adding to cart from Wishlist page, Amasty Quick Order page, etc.
Compatibility compatibility with Amasty Quick Order and Amasty Elastic Search was improved
1.5.16 - Apr 24, 2020
Improvement now the extension use Laminas library instead of deprecated Zend to hide product prices
1.5.15 - Mar 17, 2020
Improvement we rechecked and established correct dependency on jQuery UI library
1.5.14 - Jan 31, 2020
Improvement we slightly improved email notification templates
1.5.13 - Nov 28, 2019
Improvement we enhanced the security level of the plugin regarding prevention of XSS injections
Fix we resolved the issue with hardcoded words in email templates - now they are available for translation
1.5.12 - Oct 01, 2019
Compatibility we enhanced compatibility with Request a Quote plugin even more. If the price is configured to be hidden, the customer will not see this price in quote cart as well
1.5.11 - Aug 20, 2019
Improvements minor improvements were implemented
1.5.10 - Aug 07, 2019
Fix minor issues were resolved
1.5.9 - Jul 11, 2019
Compatibility we improved compatibility with Custom Form extension
Fix we solved the issue with adding hided products from My Wish List page
1.5.8 - Jul 09, 2019
Fix issue with mass delete action was resolved
1.5.7 - Jun 10, 2019
Compatibility the compatibility with Amasty Request a Quote extension was improved
Fix the issue with Zend_Dom_Query package was resolved
1.5.6 - Apr 19, 2019
Improvement now it allows sending admin notifications for several users
1.5.5 - Mar 15, 2019
Improvement ability to close 'Call for price' popup by click on the top-right cross button was added
Compatibility compatibility with Amasty Request a Quote extension was added
1.5.4 - Jan 10, 2019
Fix an issue with Hide Price Text field XSS vulnerability was resolved
1.5.3 - Dec 21, 2018
Compatibility the compatibility with Magento 2.3.0 was added
1.5.2 - Dec 05, 2018
Fix the issue with configuration section was fixed
1.5.1 - Dec 04, 2018
Improvement minor improvements were made
1.5.0 - Dec 03, 2018
New ability to create custom 'Quote Request' form of various types to effectively collect customer info, e.g. to add the zip code or any other field, adjust Google Maps element or use fields dependency for the 'Call for price' pop-up was added. Amasty Custom Form extension is required for this feature
Version 1.4.1
Last Update: Nov 29, 2018
1.4.1 - Nov 29, 2018
Fix the issue with module config settings was fixed
1.4.0 - Nov 20, 2018
New allows hiding the product price for the specified custom stock status only. Amasty Custom Stock Status extension is required for this feature
Version 1.3.4
Last Update: Oct 31, 2018
1.3.4 - Oct 31, 2018
Fix the issue with hiding tier prices was fixed
1.3.3 - Oct 25, 2018
Fix an issue with a flat table for products was resolved
1.3.2 - Sep 06, 2018
Improvement the ability to hide the 'Add to Cart' button was enhanced
1.3.1 - Aug 30, 2018
Fix the problem with hiding the 'Add to Cart' button was resolved
1.3.0 - Aug 24, 2018
New the ability to replace the 'Add to Cart' button in the 'Request a Quote' popup was added
Compatibility the compatibility with the Amasty Color Swatches Pro extension was enhanced
Fix the problem with the wishlist and compare pages was resolved
Version 1.2.3
Last Update: Jul 19, 2018
1.2.3 - Jul 19, 2018
Fix minor issue was resolved
1.2.2 - Jul 19, 2018
Improvement minor code improvement was made
1.2.1 - Jul 13, 2018
Improvement minor enhancement in module configuration was made
1.2.0 - Jun 11, 2018
New the functionality to comply with the latest GDPR EU changes was added
Version 1.1.3
Last Update: May 21, 2018
1.1.3 - May 21, 2018
Improvement Information section is added. Now you can see the version of the installed extension, available updates, User Guide link, conflicts, and other useful data right on the module Configuration page
Fix an issue with encoding was resolved
1.1.2 - Mar 14, 2018
Improved the 'add to cart' selector form functionality
1.1.1 - Feb 28, 2018
Fixed an issue with conflict when using several fancyboxes on Magento store
1.1.0 - Feb 13, 2018
Added the 'Hide Price' settings to the 'Update attributes' on the product grid in backend
Version 1.0.6
Last Update: Jan 23, 2018
1.0.6 - Jan 23, 2018
Allows to show the price and hide the 'Add to cart' button
Compatibility with Amasty Quick View extension is added
The fancybox library is upgraded
1.0.5 - Dec 21, 2017
Fixed an issue with the Add to cart price button visible during the page load
1.0.4 - Sep 13, 2017
added an ability to select an empty value of category ID or customer group ID in the extension settings
