Solutions · Service bureaus
Instant quoting for service bureaus
Several processes, real lead times and buyers who compare you against three other quotes. Answer first, and answer with a breakdown.
What is actually hard about this.
- 01
You run more than one process, and the honest price for the same part differs wildly between them.
- 02
Your buyers are professional: they will ask why, and “that is what the system said” is not an answer.
- 03
Estimating is a senior person’s time, and it is spent on jobs that never land.
How shops like yours set it up.
A configuration per process, sharing a machine and material library
Machines and materials live once and are used by several configurations, so a resin price change is one edit.
Cheapest-process comparison
A part is analysed once and can be priced against every process you run, so the buyer can be shown the trade-off instead of guessing.
Manual-review rules on the jobs that deserve a person
Over a value, over a size, an unusual material: the rest quote themselves.
Customer price lists
Your negotiated accounts sign in and see their own prices, in the same widget.
The short list.
- Per-process configurations
- Shared library of machines and materials
- Review thresholds by value and size
- Lead-time tiers with a rush surcharge
- Customer tokens and price lists
Not quite you?
Print farms
Dozens of near-identical machines, thin margins, and a queue that has to stay full. Quote in seconds and let the arithmetic be right at volume.
Read moreJob shops
Quoting is the bottleneck and the estimator is one person. Automate the parts that are arithmetic and keep the judgement.
Read moreMakerspaces & universities
Members and departments rather than customers, cost codes rather than card payments, and a rate card somebody has to be able to justify.
Read moreInternal labs
A shop inside a company, charging other teams. The price has to be defensible internally, and the queue has to be visible.
Read moreBring a part you quoted by hand.
Price it on the free plan with your own machines and rates, and see where the engine agrees with you, and why it does not.
Free plan, no card. Paid plans by the month, cancel any time.