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RFQ vs RFP: What manufacturers need to know
Understand the difference between RFQs and RFPs, when each makes sense, and how to respond without losing the deal
Read MoreQuotiq reads every RFQ from email, WhatsApp and phone, then prices it on your own rates.
v1.0 ships at launch and this is what your desk does from day one, whatever door the enquiry walks in through
Email, WhatsApp, Telegram, phone calls, and walk-ins all land in one queue, with duplicates caught before you quote twice
Part, material, grade, quantity, tolerance, finish, heat treatment, and testing, with a confidence score on every parse
Costing runs on your rate master with a nine-head breakdown, margin, and total, referencing your own past jobs
Business-hours SLA on every stage, reminder to urgent to escalation, so no enquiry is ever quoted late or forgotten
Day 2, 5, and 10 nudges go out automatically, with open tracking on email and WhatsApp delivery
Every cost-sheet change is audit-safe, and win or loss reasons are captured on every closed enquiry
The AI captures the data, reads the signals, and acts while your people manage, so your desk scales regardless of size
The clock starts when we receive your data, with your rate master, format, and WhatsApp number set up with you
The tools your team already uses every day, no new habits, no new software to learn
If you can use a smartphone you can use this, from sales to the shop floor
Bank-grade encryption, Indian servers, and an append-only audit trail on every action
Your price reduces or stays constant, it never increases for you, no per-user creep, no surprise revisions
NDA-backed from day one, security you can audit, and no-cost care before and after launch
Every client works under a signed NDA with their own database instance, your data is never shared, never reused, and never leaves your software
Bank-grade encryption across every quotation and workflow, role-based access, and an append-only audit trail on every action
Setup, migration, team training, and 15 days of free hypercare, all included at no cost before and after you go live
Start where you are and flex as you grow, your price reduces or stays constant, it never increases for you
Three versions, one sequence: v1 earns trust, v2 earns the desk, v3 earns the market
Goal: 25 paying shops, 3 documented ₹-recovered case studies, 15-day go-live
Goal: 200 shops, net revenue retention above 115%, Quotiq becomes the daily tool
Goal: 1,000+ shops, network transactions as the second revenue line, a moat no competitor can replicate
The sequence is the strategy: the network only works on top of a critical mass of v1 and v2 shops, so we ship the capture wedge first, and the margin guard is arithmetic on the rate feeds, near-zero marginal cost with maximum owner value
Get on the road earlyEvery enquiry that lands is money on the table, yet it sits scattered across inboxes, spreadsheets, and WhatsApp threads. The good ones get quoted late, the small ones get forgotten, and the one person holding it all together is you. Quotiq takes that weight off your desk, reads each request, prices it on your own rates, and keeps the clock, so the work moves without waiting on you.
Take quoting off your plate, and become the AI-Run Quoting Desk
Four real workflows and one quiet assistant, turning every email into a filed, priced, tracked quote with nobody retyping a thing
The email arrives and the details land in the system with nobody retyping a word
1 / 4scroll to explore each workflow
Feasibility 62 / 100. A similar RFQ from this client won last quarter, recommended for priority review
Create quotation draft with cost estimate?
Draft QUO-2241 ready, cost sheet v1 priced, SLA deadline tracked
Nothing lost, nothing retyped, everything logged
Teams are already quoting on Quotiq today, this is not a roadmap
Move the slider to your volume and the numbers tell the story
Slide to your monthly RFQ volume and watch the desk reclaim its time
Based on teams quoting 6 manual hours per RFQ today, dropping to about 2 hours with the AI desk - the rest is review, not retyping
Manufacturers who switched to Quotiq, in their own words
“Our quote turnaround dropped from days to hours. Clients noticed before we did.”
“My dependability on manual work has gone to zero. The AI reads everything now.”
“All the information is now available on the go. I review quotes from anywhere.”
“Quotiq helped us go paperless. Every decision is logged, every quote is traceable.”
“Our customer satisfaction improved by 45% by streamlining the whole quoting flow.”
“Quote errors are down 40% since we switched. The system catches what we used to miss.”
Quoting desks that run on Quotiq
Every one of these quotes from a drawing, a grade and a quantity. The rate master changes, the reading does not.
Grade, pattern, machining allowance and pour weight read straight off the enquiry, priced on your own metal rates
Long lead times and one-off builds, where the estimate is judgement and the quote still has to go out the same week
Tolerance, finish, setup and cycle time per operation, with your machine-hour rates applied line by line
Nesting, gauge, weld length and finish, so a drawing full of bends does not need an hour of manual take-off
Billet size, die life, and the treatment cycle costed in, instead of carried in one person's head
Tight-tolerance work where a feasibility read before you commit matters more than a fast number
Quoting something else off a drawing? The reading is the same. Talk to us.
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Understand the difference between RFQs and RFPs, when each makes sense, and how to respond without losing the deal
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Read MoreOne-time setup on every plan, then a flat monthly price that never moves
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Complete data migration, your material rate master built and verified with you, your branded quotation format, a dedicated WhatsApp Business number in your name, and team training with a supervised go-live. 60% to begin, 40% at go-live.
All prices exclusive of GST at 18%, full input tax credit available to registered businesses, so GST is a pass-through, not a cost