A quote answers a question someone already asked, so nearly everything in it needs to be a number, not an argument.
Quote 2041 — Storefront fit-out
Materials, labour and delivery for the ground floor, priced as one job. Anything outside this list is quoted separately.
Half on acceptance, half on delivery. The quote holds for thirty days; after that, materials are re-priced.
A quote exists to answer one question fast: what will this cost. Each line carries a quantity and a price, and they collapse into a single total, which only means something once it says how long that total stands. It is not the place to negotiate — it is an answer, not an opening move.
A single total, not a set of options
Each line carries a quantity and a price, and they collapse into one number at the foot of the document rather than several to choose between.
A price that names its own deadline
A quote states the day it stops holding, so neither side is left working from a figure that quietly went stale weeks ago.
One section, because one question was asked
There is no phase-by-phase breakdown here — a quote answers exactly what was asked, in the shape the question came in.
How many times it gets reopened before you hear back
You see how many times it was opened after you sent it, and when the most recent of those was — often the clearest signal before a reply arrives.
An example — not your document. Sections are the document’s own headings.
Most of their attention went to “Cover” — 2m 40s of 4m 00s.
Time each section spent on screen, counted only while the tab was in front and the reader was active. It shows what was in front of them, not what they read.
This page is about what a quote has to do. For the blocks the editor is built from — see the editor.
The template is the starting file. This page is about what a quote needs once it is sent — a total that adds up cleanly, an expiry date, and knowing how many times it gets reopened before you hear back.
No — the date is a plain line in the document, not something Quixli enforces. The number simply says, in writing, when it stops being the number.
Not on this page — a quote is one number for one ask. Offering a few options to choose between is a different kind of document.