Quote Cost Comparison Matrix
Compare the cost advantage that CutQuote offers. Feel free to fill in the data with numbers relevant to your own business.
In today’s fast moving marketplace where speed is of the essence the first reasonably priced quote often wins the order. CutQuote is here to help make sure you win that order!
CutQuotedesigned for quotesreliable |
Rectangle based estimation subject to individual inputunreliable |
Internal nesting software high level of training costsoverkill for quotes |
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|---|---|---|---|
| Staff Involved | 0-1 | 1 | 1-2 |
| Software Required | CutQuote | AutoCad or similar Excel or similar Word or similar |
AutoCad or similar Excel or similar Word or similar TruTops/Bysoft/Sigmanest |
| Setup Costs | $0 | $1000-3000 | $7000-$30000 |
| Automatic Files Cleaning | – | Partial or none | |
| True Shape nesting | – | ||
| Customer SelfQuoting | – | – | |
| Control over profit margins | – | Partial subject to estimator input |
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| Secondary processes | – | – | |
| Staff Costs | $50000 | $50000 | $65000 |
| Quoting hours/year | 1680 | 1680 | 1680 |
| Line items per hour | 20 | 8 | 6 |
| Total Line items | 33600 | 13440 | 10080 |
| Cost per line item | $1.85 | $3.72 | $6.45 |
Quote Example – 8 parts (from complex CAD files), 35 off each, 1 secondary folding operation per part.
CutQuote |
Manual method |
Nesting Software |
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|---|---|---|---|
| Quote Turnaround Time | 24 minutes | 60 minutes | 80 minutes |
| Quote Preparation Cost | $12.40 | $30 | $52 |
| Estimated Material Required | 5.21 Sheets | About 6.5 Sheets | 5.15 Sheets |
| Estimated Cut Time | 1h 12m | About 45 minutes | 1h 14m 35s |
| Quote Price | $1512 | $1200-$2100 | $1475 |
| Target Net Profit | 25% | 25% | 25% |
| Net Profit in Quote | 25% | Unknown | 17% |
| Orders Won | >70% | <45% | 50-55% |
CutQuote allows your sales team to put together consistent, accurate and profitable quotations in the blink of an eye.
Not only can you use customer files for quoting without cleaning up and fixing in your CAD or production tools but you can also quote for secondary and subcontract operations in seconds. All of this while CutQuote automatically ensures that your profit targets are hit in every quote produced.
Then imagine the increase in your daily sales if your best customers could execute their own quotes online 24/7 using their own CAD drawings and all throughout your profitability was guaranteed!
Imagine no more! CutQuote also enables you to invite clients to self-generate quotes and place orders with you. These quotes are generated using the same costing parameters and profit margin targets as those you generate “in-house” giving you a sales office that stays open 24 hours a day. The matrix above does not account at all for the “bonus” factor that customer generated quotes brings.
Win orders the quick and easy way and let CutQuote take the strain in your daily quoting activities!
