What a job shop with one or two estimators gets from VenturusEQ
If your estimator quotes a milled bracket, a laser-cut plate and a small weldment before lunch, VenturusEQ was built for your shop. Every package becomes a record, every line has one editor, saved views show what is due, and the part library makes the second quote for the same part a copy rather than a rebuild.
How a job shop's RFQs get quoted today
In a job shop the RFQs are small and constant. Twelve emails before nine, each with a print or two, some with a model, one with a spreadsheet of forty part numbers. The person quoting them also answers the phone, checks stock and walks the floor.
The work spreads across an inbox, a shared drive, a spreadsheet per quote and a whiteboard of what is due. The same bracket quoted in March is quoted again in June from scratch because the March file is somewhere in a folder named by customer, or by date, or by whoever was quoting then.
What is missing is a record: one place where the package, the reading, the numbers and the sent quote live together and can be found again.
The parts of VenturusEQ a job shop uses most
Saved views on the quote list
Eight statuses and saved views with typed criteria: overdue, expiring, priority, margin band, never viewed by the buyer, requote requested. Pin a default, share a view with the other estimator.
My Work and the review queue
My Work lists the lines assigned to you. Findings that need a decision are routed to estimating, engineering, quality or purchasing, with claim, release and a due day, so nothing waits in an inbox.
The part library and quote again
Every quoted part is kept with its history. Quote again carries breaks, costs, pricing, discounts, add-ons, expedites and welds into a new draft. Import historical work searches past lines into the quote you are on.
A public request form
Your customer submits name, company, email, notes and files on a link you control and gets an acknowledgment. The package is created with every file hashed and classified. Switched on per company.
Mixed processes in one quote
Fifteen system templates cover mill, turn, fabrication, sheet, assembly, purchased, outside work and tooling. Lines from different processes sit in the same grid and roll into one quote.
One search box across quotes, notes and file names
One box finds quote numbers, buyers, every quote and line note, RFQ numbers and package file names, fenced to your company. The March bracket is one search away.
How a morning's RFQs move through the product
Packages arrive
Some from the public form, some created by the estimator from an email dropped in as a file. Each gets its own number, and every file is hashed, given a role and scanned.
The list sorts itself
Due dates default from your time-to-quote setting. The overdue and due-soon views show what to open first; priority from one to ten breaks ties.
Lines come from the files
Drawings, models and the customer parts list become lines, pre-ticked, quantities carried. A spreadsheet block pasted in becomes up to 500 lines.
The print read and the measurement run in the background
The print is read and the model measured while the estimator works another line. Proposals wait for a confirm; nothing prices until it gets one.
The second estimator joins
Lines are assigned with an assignment email. One editor per line keeps edits from colliding, and a take-over is visible to both.
Quotes go out and come back
The digital quote link is sent from your own mailbox where that is switched on. The buyer picks a break and accepts, the acceptance freezes, and the outcome feeds win-loss by account and process.
Common questions
We quote milling, turning, sheet metal and the odd weldment. Do we need separate products?
No. One quote can carry lines from different processes. Fifteen system templates ship for mill, turn, fabrication, sheet, assembly, purchased parts, outside work and tooling, plus geometry-driven variants. You clone them and put your own rates in.
There are two of us quoting. How do we keep from stepping on each other?
Each line has one editor at a time. A line shows as free, mine, someone else's or taken from me, with a visible take-over and a timeout your company sets. My Work lists what is assigned to you, and the review queue shows what is waiting on whom.
Can our customers send RFQs without emailing us?
Yes. A public request form on a link you control takes name, company, email, notes and files, sends an acknowledgment, and creates the package with every file hashed and given a role. It is switched on per company. A monitored intake mailbox, where an email becomes an RFQ by itself, is on its way; today an email is added to the package as a file.
We quote the same parts for the same customers every few months. Does it remember?
Yes. Every quoted part is kept in the part library with its history. Quote again carries the breaks, costs, pricing, discounts, add-ons, expedites and welds into a new draft, and a search over past lines pulls earlier work into the quote you are on.
What does it cost for a small shop?
VenturusEQ is priced per shop, not per seat, so everyone who touches a quote can work in it. Every shop is priced for its own work. Contact sales for a written proposal.
See three of your own RFQs go through VenturusEQ
Send us three real packages. We run them through intake, the print read and both cost lines in your rates, live. If you would rather look first, the interactive demo is open, with no form in front of it.