Okay, you have just finished a sales meeting with a prospective customer and committed him to deliver a quote.  So next you sit down on your desk, put in countless hours to prepare an accurate quote and send it across to the buyer, hoping to win the contract.  But imagine your quote being pushed down in the list of multiple quotations that have reached the customer before yours. Or what if you are asked to rework on the proposal due to mistakes in numbers/spellings or because the prices in suppliers catalog have changed?  Or may be customer wants the quote in HTML format but you sent him an excel file? Or perhaps you simply forgot the follow up date on the calendar! Any one or all of these situations can blow away your chances to get the order.  That’s where an automated and professional sales quoting solution can help you – it helps you to eliminate the risk of your quote getting eliminated before the final sales deal.

An effective quoting solution can transform your sales process from a challenging, complicated task to a simplified, methodical one.   Nowadays, quoting softwares come with high end, sophisticated technology configuration features and a rich user interface, thereby allowing VARs/MSPs/system integrators to offer customized or multiple version quotes in HTML/PDF formats to their customers. In fact you can generate quotes just at the click of button, trim down the error rates to almost zero, eliminate double entries, set automated follow up alerts and manage the entire quote to order cycle efficiently.

VARStreet’s Sales Quoting Module  doesn’t require an elaborate setup and hence it can become functional with your internal systems with a high degree of ease, simplicity and customization. Apart from the features mentioned above, it also offers your customers real time pricing and inventory from 18+ distributors along with rich content from eTilize. The powerful search engines ensure that your sales rep is able to search/add/compare products Aggregated/Custom catalog/Contract catalog and find the right product for the customer. Another reason that resellers prefer the quoting solution is because it integrates with all major CRM, ERP and Procurement systems for seamless transaction flow from one system to another. And if mobile web technology is your preferred way of working, then you will definitely love to download A2Q, VARStreet’s mobile quoting application for Android and iOS users.


With all the benefits that a quoting software provides, it is needless to say that it is a must have tool in every sales rep’s sales kit box to drive performance and deliver positive results!