A quote is a price, a delivery, and a sentence
The quote composer now takes a delivery/freight amount and a note to the buyer. Both ride the quote email and the buyer's quote page, and both come back pre-filled when you re-quote.
By The BTAB Team
A quote for something that doesn't fit in a parcel is never just a price. It's a price, a delivery cost, and usually a sentence that explains both.
The quote composer now takes all three.
A box for the delivery cost
When you price up an enquiry in your dashboard, there's a new Delivery / freight $ field under the line prices. Fill it in and the buyer sees a Delivery / freight row itemised on their quote — in the email and on the quote page — with the total underneath it. Leave it empty and the quote is goods-only, exactly as before.
The number is typed rather than calculated, and that's the point. The reason a buyer enquires instead of adding to a cart is usually that the thing won't go in a parcel, and a parcel rate table can't price a truck to their address. You can. And it travels: when the buyer accepts, the freight lands on the order as itemised shipping, with the charge total reading goods plus delivery.
And a note to go with it
There's now a Note to the buyer box under the prices. Whatever you write lands on the quote itself — in the email, and on the quote page the buyer opens — as its own paragraph just below the totals. Line breaks are kept, so a short list stays a short list.
It's for the sentence that makes the number make sense:
Delivery price includes tail-lift and a two-person unload. Three to four weeks from order — we're waiting on stock until the 12th.
Two thousand characters, so there's room to be specific. Optional, so a straightforward quote stays clean.
Re-quoting no longer means retyping
Re-open a quote you've already sent and both fields come back pre-filled with what you last sent. Change the freight, tweak the note, leave the rest alone. Clearing a field clears it from the quote.
One fix on the buyer's side
The Send Enquiry button on storefront enquiry forms had been reaching for a style rule that sets a colour and nothing else — no padding, no rounded corners, no weight. It worked; it just didn't look like it would. It now has all three: full width on a phone, sized to its label on a desktop.
What the note is, and isn't
It's a field on the quote, not a conversation — one message, from you, at the moment you send it. And it stays with the quote it was written on: the freight carries forward onto the order, the note doesn't.