Quote Generator Help
Every Quote Generator guide, arranged the way the app is: one section for each entry in its left panel. Each line says what the page is for and links to the guide that explains every control on it.
Start Here
Section titled “Start Here”- From opportunity to signed proposal, step by step: one quote, start to finish, and who is told along the way
- Setting up Quote Generator: what an administrator sets up once, in Salesforce, NetSuite, Microsoft, the Integrations Hub and Quote Generator
- Creating quotes: the full guide for estimators
Dashboard
Section titled “Dashboard”Your quote workspace: Open, Awaiting customer and Won at a glance, each opening the matching list, the five newest quotes, View all, and + New quote. New here? See how a quote is built opens How it Works.
- Creating a quote: the start row in + New quote and what each start does
- Finding a Salesforce opportunity: Open Opportunity and Closed in Salesforce
Quotes
Section titled “Quotes”Every live quote, filtered by stage with the chips across the top (All, Open, your stages, Archived). Click a row to open the quote on its overview; click its customer to open the customer. Edit Quote opens the quote’s lines, and Overview, first in the header row on the lines, brings you back. On a quote, Ask about Quote {number} opens a chat about it, Comments holds your team’s notes, and Activity lists what changed and whether the customer has opened the proposal.
- The quote overview: the save indicator, undo, redo and history on each field, notes and @mentions in Comments, the customer’s opens and Send reminder in Activity, Proposal ▾ and Edit Quote, and a quote you can only view
- The quote header and Document Settings: Overview, Proposal ▾, Advance to…, Document Settings, the view switch, the people, who is told when the customer opens it, the Reference and the linked records
- Needs attention, the canvas and Tools ▾ and vendor quotes
- Quantity or lump sum: how a product is priced, and the minimum at signing
- Optional units and lines: Make optional
- Sending a quote for signature: Preview Proposal, Edit Proposal, Advance & seal, Send to customer, Send again, Delivery record; and a reminder with the same link
- What the customer sees when signing and after the customer signs
- Salesforce and NetSuite when a quote is won or lost: the banners a won quote shows
- Reading the AI Record, how a quote gets built and watching a quote build
- Who can do what: customer, estimator, Approver, admin, and the Edit quotes permission
Customers
Section titled “Customers”The companies you quote to, with + New Customer, + Bulk Import, Export CSV, search and the Archived chip. Open a customer to edit it, add contacts or upload its logo.
Vendors
Section titled “Vendors”For organisations that buy parts: the companies you buy from, with the same buttons as Customers. It is not in the left panel where quotes carry no vendor-priced lines.
How it Works
Section titled “How it Works”An example quote on the real quote screens, its overview and its lines, with made-up customer, people and prices; nothing on it is saved. Training, above it, opens your organisation’s steps and How does this work?: guided walks, each with a Training button. A walk has Back, Next, Skip and Go, and shrinks to a bar with Minimize.
My Send Message
Section titled “My Send Message”The subject and message your sends start from. Clear both and click Save to use your organisation’s default instead.
My Notifications
Section titled “My Notifications”Turn Bell, Teams or Email off for yourself, for Quote events and, separately, for @mentions. Each click saves at once. Use Quote Generator’s recommended settings turns everything back on. Where Teams cannot reach people at your organisation yet, it is greyed out and the page says why.
- Notifications: what you are told about a quote, and on which channel
For administrators. Search settings finds any setting by what you would call it. The boxes are Catalog, Products, Labor, Pricing, Presentation and Operations.
- Setting up Quote Generator: everything to set once, in order
- Tuning Quote Generator: catalog, products, labor, pricing and the admin map
- How Quote Generator is configured: the layers, how a value is worked out, and what you change versus what NXTC applies. By shape: parts and labor, catalog-priced services, distance-rated movements, and the cut-from-stock quote type
- Product families and their names
- Operations: People, proposal roles and who signs, Approvers, Outbound writes, Notifications
- Presentation: the Delivery tab and the templates, built in Template Builder (designing, page setup, images, section library, publishing)