White-label RFQ intake for custom spring manufacturers

RFQs arrive messy. Estimators shouldn’t.

RFQ/Front gives customers a branded way to send drawings, specifications, quantities, and revisions—then prepares one source-linked handoff for your estimating team.

Book an RFQ workflow review Inspect the handoff

Uses your brand and terminology Preserves supplied files and revisions Your team owns every quote decision

Illustrative intake packet

Compression spring / Rev C

READY TO REVIEW

drawing_rev_c.pdf customer_email.eml qty_breaks.xlsx

Material supplied17-7 PH stainless steel

drawing · note 4

Quantity requested1,000 / 5,000 / 10,000

spreadsheet · B8:B10

Revision relationshipRev C supersedes the attached Rev B

email · 10:42 AM

Review flag: free length differs between the drawing and email. Confirm before pricing.

The intake model

One front door. Evidence all the way through.

RFQ/Front sits before estimating. It organizes what the customer supplied, makes gaps and conflicts visible, and hands the packet to the people qualified to decide.

01 / BRANDED INTAKE

Ask in the language your customers know.

Use your logo, field names, spring categories, file requirements, and routing rules. Customers stay in your experience.

02 / SOURCE MAP

Keep every answer attached to its origin.

A field can point back to an email, drawing note, spreadsheet cell, image, or revision instead of becoming an unsupported summary.

03 / ESTIMATOR HANDOFF

Review what matters before pricing begins.

See supplied values, missing inputs, conflicts, and revision relationships in one packet. Your estimator decides what happens next.

A deliberate boundary

The software prepares. Your people judge.

Spring requirements are specification-heavy. RFQ/Front is designed to support review—not replace the expertise that protects the quote.

Capture supplied requirements and filesRFQ/Front

Surface missing or conflicting supplied informationRFQ/Front

Choose spring design or materialYour team

Approve manufacturabilityYour team

Calculate cost and issue final pricingYour team

Useful before a software decision

Start with the workflow, not a sales demo.

A focused review maps how an RFQ enters, where customer evidence separates from the estimate, and which handoffs deserve a clearer operating contract.

Bring

Your current blank quote form, a sanitized historical request, or the path an RFQ follows from website to estimator.

Compare

Fields, files, revision handling, clarification ownership, estimator entry criteria, and the systems already in the path.

Leave with

A concise intake map, the highest-risk handoff, and a grounded recommendation for what to preserve, change, or test.

Field notes

Make the intake easier to inspect.

Two practical references for teams reviewing a spring quote path.

Spring RFQ input checklist →

A structured list of the customer-supplied information that commonly belongs in a quote request.

White-label intake model →

Where a branded intake layer fits—and where it should stop—inside the quote process.