Most businesses that manufacture or distribute customized or highly engineered products initiate their sales process by using a quote request process. The idea is, simply, that a customer or prospect can view the various catalogs and products on the website (generally without prices showing) and then place specific items of interest into a shopping cart in order to request a price quote.
In this scenario, the subsequent checkout process is identical to an eCommerce transaction EXCEPT that there is no payment information requested or processed. Instead, a "zero dollar" or "free" order is processed and logged by the system, with order acknowledgements being sent to the inquiring customer, and quote order notifications being sent to the site owner. Another key requirement in this "quote request" scenario (that has already been promised for the initial rollout) are product options and variants.
I currently have a number of large manufacturing and distribution clients that have just such a "quote management" system, but they are built on Adobe's Business Catalyst and will need to be migrated (to Webflow??) prior to the announced end of life for that platform. The Webflow eCommerce offering is shaping up to be exactly what is needed. The only missing pieces seem to be the "skipping over" of the payment process and (in an ideal world) the addition of more flexible form submission notification options to route different types of order requests to the most appropriate individuals within the business.
Because this is more like an option "skip a step" than it is a request for new functionality, I am keeping my fingers crossed that a "quote request" option might still be feasible within the framework of the initial rollout...
Hey, a guy can hope, right? :-)
Bruce Dunnan
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Totally agree! This would really open the Webflow door to the countless manufacturing businesses out there.
The ability to configure variants (Shirt > grey > small> x10 ) and add them to the quote alongside other products would be of huge value.
Fingers crossed 🤞
Hopefully,
Jonny
wholeheartedly wish this were a feature also. Maybe "pop" the capacity to do this in the CMS plans if removing the requirement to sign up with a payment provider and negating the billing address in the ecommerce aren't an option.
Has anyone over the last four years found another solution for this seeing as Webflow refuses to address the problem?
Any news about this？
Browsing our customisable products really helps promote our manufacturing services, but it’s very rare that someone would buy one off-the-shelf without obtaining a quote first (to the point that we want to exclude that functionality).
I suppose we could use a form to request a quote for individual products, but not being able to list items together feels very limiting for both parties.
If a request a quote feature was introduced, I could move over all three websites for our business.
Fingers crossed!
This is over 85% of our business because of the custom work we do.
Oh please Webflow! It's been almost 4 YEARS since this request was made and still don't have any answer from you. :'(
We need this option ASAP please!!!
Any updates on this?
We have this need now as well. Client wants users to be able to request a quote before purchasing.
Yes, I need this also as items I sell are highly customized. Currently I have built this 'functionality' as a simple form that asks visitor some questions.
Is there any update on this?
need !
Yes, this is something I also need. I have a mix of items. Some have a specific cost and work well with e-commerce as is setup now in Webflow. But others will require a quote because they are customized.
This is a must have for sure
I would also really appreciate this function!!
Amen! Webflow where are you? We need this ASAP. I'm assuming this would be an easy addition the framework. I mean you could just allow us to delete the payment section from the checkout page builder.
I need this for a project now. Will have to look at Woo Commerce I think. Euuugh, WordPress :(
I desperately need this but with the option to display prices and total cost of order/s with discounts and mark ups/downs specific to the customer.
I need this asap! Is this option in planning and if so when can I work with it?
I really need this!