Overview
What it does:
- Allows you to create detailed price quotes for customers, including items, quantities, discounts, and validity dates
- Enables emailing formatted PDF quotations directly to prospects
- Tracks quotation status (Draft, Submitted, Accepted, Rejected) and converts accepted quotes into sales orders
Prerequisites
- Items or services exist under
Stock > Item > Item List - Customers are defined under
Selling > Customer - Email settings are configured for sending quotations
1.0 Open the Quotation Form
- Navigate to
Selling > Quotation > New Quotation. - A blank Quotation form appears with header fields and an empty Items table.
1.2 Populate Header Details
- Customer: Select an existing customer or prospect.
- Quotation Date: Defaults to today; modify if needed.
- Valid Until: Enter the last date the quoted prices are effective.
- Company: Choose your legal entity (e.g., Charisma Industrial).
- Currency: Defaults to the customer’s currency; change if required.
- Sales Partner (optional): Select if tracking commission.
- Remarks (optional): Add any special notes or terms.
1.3 Add Line Items
- In the Items table, click Add Row.
- For each line:
- Item Code / Description: Start typing or scan barcode.
- Qty: Enter the quantity being quoted.
- UOM: Unit of measure (e.g., Nos, Kgs, Hours).
- Rate: Unit price (defaults from Item master).
- Discount (%): If offering any discount on that line.
- Amount: Auto-calculated as (Qty × Rate) – Discount.
- Repeat until all items are listed.
- If you need an overall discount or tax, expand Taxes and Charges and click Get from Customer (or select a template).
1.4 Save and Submit Quotation
- Click Save to draft the quotation—this assigns it a unique Quotation Number (e.g., QUO-2025-0001).
- Review totals, discounts, and expiry date.
- Click Submit to lock the quotation and change its status to Submitted.
1.5 Email the Quotation PDF
- From the Quotation header, click Email.
- The email composer opens with a pre-formatted template and attached PDF.
- Verify recipient address, add a personalized message, then click Send.
- Quotation status updates to Sent and logs the email in Communication Log.
1.6 Track and Update Quotation Status
- Open
Selling > Quotation > Quotation Listto view all quotations. - Check the Status column for each quote (Draft, Submitted, Sent, Accepted, Rejected).
- To accept a quotation (after customer confirmation), open the record and click
Actions > Submit > Accept.- Status changes to Accepted
- You can then click
Create > Sales Orderto convert it directly.
- To reject or withdraw, click
Actions > Rejector Cancel—logging the reason in Comments.