Free Quote Builder

Free Quote Builder: make a quote that wins the job

Make a professional quote in minutes: six designs, your logo, price breaks, Letter or A4, invoices made from quotes and a PDF. Free, private, no account.

What the Quote Builder does

  • Six quote designs, each shown with your own quote
  • Your logo, with the quote's colour matched to it
  • Any accent colour and a choice of eight typefaces
  • US Letter or A4 paper
  • Line items with quantity, unit price and amount, and a photo or drawing of the part
  • Quantity price breaks, worked out from your setup cost and cost per part
  • Discount and tax as percentages, worked out for you
  • Your own title, headings, detail rows and column headings
  • Optional notes, signature line and terms and conditions page, so a short quote can be one page
  • Every quote kept on your device and numbered for you, with revisions
  • Invoices and order confirmations made from a quote
  • Customers and line items you have used before, one click away
  • A backup file to keep your quotes safe or move them to another device
  • PDF download with selectable text, or share it straight from a phone
  • Takes the price from an MFG Calcs calculator
  • Prefilled links an AI assistant can write
  • Private: quotes are made and kept in your browser and are not uploaded
  • Free, with no account

How to make a quote

  • 1. Pick your look. Choose one of six designs, each shown with your own quote. Drop in your logo and the colour is matched to it, or pick any colour. Choose US Letter or A4, and change the fonts if you want something other than the design's own.
  • 2. Add your shop. Your company name, address, phone, email and website. They are kept on your device and carried to every new quote.
  • 3. Add your customer. Their name, company and address, or a customer you have quoted before. Then the number, the date, how long the price holds, lead time and payment terms.
  • 4. List what you are quoting. Each line with how many and the price each, and a photo of the part if you like, or the price at each quantity break. The total, discount and tax are worked out as you type.
  • 5. Add notes and terms, if you want them. Notes under the lines, a line for the customer to sign, and a terms and conditions page at the back. Each one is optional: leave the terms page off and a short quote is a single page.
  • 6. Download or share the PDF. Download the quote as a PDF, or share it from your phone. The file is written on your device, and the quote is kept in your browser, ready to revise or turn into an invoice.

What a manufacturing quote should include

  • Who the quote is from, with a phone number and email
  • Who it is for: the buyer's name and company
  • A quote number and the date
  • How long the price holds (a valid-until date)
  • What is being supplied: part, drawing and revision, material and finish
  • Quantity and unit price, or the price at each quantity break
  • One-time charges such as setup, tooling and first-article inspection
  • Lead time and how it ships
  • Payment terms
  • What the price assumes and what it leaves out
  • A line for the customer to sign and date

Frequently asked questions

  • Is the Quote Builder free? Yes. There is no charge, no account and no trial period. Every quote carries one small, faint line at the foot of the page that credits MFG Calcs.
  • Can MFG Calcs see my prices or my customers? No. Quotes are made and kept in your browser, and the PDF is written on your device. Nothing you type is sent to MFG Calcs, and neither is your logo or any photo. We count how many quotes are downloaded, never what is in them.
  • What should a manufacturing quote include? Who it is from and who it is for, a quote number and date, how long the price holds, what is being supplied (part, drawing revision, material and finish), the quantity and unit price or the price at each quantity break, any one-time charges such as setup or tooling, lead time, payment terms, what the price assumes, and a line for the customer to sign.
  • Can I quote one part at several quantities? Yes. Choose price breaks and each line becomes the price at that quantity, for example 500, 1,000 and 2,500 pieces. Type your setup cost, your cost to make one and your markup, and the price at every quantity is worked out for you. The quote prints no total, because the lines are alternatives rather than a sum.
  • Will my quotes still be there when I come back? Yes, in the same browser on the same device: every quote is kept and listed under My quotes, numbered for you. They are not in an account, so they will not appear on another device, and clearing your browser data removes them. Save a backup file from My quotes to keep them safe or to open them on another device.
  • Can I turn a quote into an invoice? Yes. Open the quote and choose Make the invoice, or Make the order confirmation. The new document gets its own number and today's date (an invoice on Net 30 terms gets its due date too), and the quote is kept as it was. You can also make a new revision of a quote, or copy it for another customer.
  • Can I use my own logo, colours and fonts? Yes. Add a logo as a PNG, JPG or SVG and the quote's colour is matched to it, or pick any colour yourself. There are six designs and eight typefaces, which you can set separately for headings and for text.
  • Can I use A4 paper? Yes. Choose US Letter or A4 under Your paper. The builder starts on the paper most used where your browser says you are, and every design is laid out for both.
  • Can I add terms and conditions? Yes, if you want them. Switch on the terms page under Notes & terms and they print on a page of their own at the back, and every new quote takes them with it. There are example terms to start from: a starting point to rewrite for your shop, not legal advice.
  • Can I keep a quote to one page? Yes. The notes, the signature line and the terms page are each optional, and the terms page is off until you switch it on. Without it, a quote is one page as long as what you put on it fits; a long list of lines runs onto a second page with the table heading repeated. The Download step says how many pages your PDF will be.
  • What do I get when I download? A PDF in US Letter or A4 with real text, so your customer can select, search and print it. A long quote runs onto further pages with the table heading repeated on each. On a phone you can share the PDF straight to email or a message instead.
  • Does it work for estimates and proposals? Yes. Call the document a quote, estimate, quotation or proposal, or use your own word. The column headings, the customer heading and the name of the total can be renamed too, to Hours and Rate for time-and-materials work, for example.
  • Can ChatGPT or another AI assistant fill in a quote for me? Yes. An assistant can write the quote into a link to this page, after a # sign, for example mfgcalcs.com/quote#customer=Acme%20Corp&line=Bracket|250|18.40. Opening the link fills in a new quote on your device, with your own shop details and logo kept. The part after # is never sent to a server, and the page takes it out of the address before anything else runs.

Prefilled quote links for AI assistants

  • To hand someone a filled-in quote, link to /quote with the quote written after a # sign as URL-encoded name=value fields. Opening the link makes a new quote on their device; the part after # is never sent to a server.
  • line: One line of the quote: description|quantity|unit price. Repeat for each line.
  • customer: The customer's company.
  • contact: The person the quote is for.
  • customer_address: The customer's address. Use %0A between lines.
  • title: What the document is called: Quote, Estimate, Quotation or Proposal.
  • number: The quote number. Left out, the builder gives the next free number.
  • valid: How many days the price holds, such as 30.
  • lead: Lead time, such as 3 weeks after order.
  • payment: Payment terms, such as Net 30.
  • notes: Notes printed under the lines.
  • breaks: 1 to price one part at several quantities: each line is a quantity break.
  • tax: Tax as a percentage, such as 8.25.
  • discount: Discount as a percentage.
  • currency: USD, CAD, EUR, GBP, AUD, MXN or INR.
  • shop: The name of the shop sending the quote, when it is not already filled in.
  • design: swiss, editorial, foundry, onyx, drawing or studio.
  • color: The quote's colour as a hex code, such as 0f766e.
  • paper: letter or a4.
  • Example: https://www.mfgcalcs.com/quote#customer=Acme%20Corp&contact=Jordan%20Lee&line=Bracket%2C%206061-T6%20aluminium%2C%20per%20drawing%20100-A%20rev%20C|250|18.40&line=Clear%20anodise%2C%20Type%20II|250|1.85&line=Setup%20and%20fixturing|1|450&lead=3%20weeks%20after%20order&payment=Net%2030&valid=30

Last reviewed 2026-11-12.