Quote a print job while they're on the phone

No. Quoting and accepting never touch Stripe: a customer can accept with nothing connected, and the job and invoice happen anyway. Connect Stripe only when you want the online payment buttons, which is about five minutes of their onboarding.

Then they'll feel at home. With Stripe connected there's a Pay by Bank button next to the card one: they approve it in their banking app, no card number typed. Prefer a plain transfer? Fill in your bank details and they appear on the quote, the invoice, the PDF and the emails, with the document number as the reference. When the money lands you mark it paid, and cash, cheque and your own card terminal are recorded the same way.

A plain transfer is the fastest route: Faster Payments, straight into your account, usually in seconds. Card and Pay by Bank confirm instantly, then settle through your Stripe account, which pays out on its standard schedule, typically a couple of business days and a little longer for your first. Either way we're never holding it in between.

Yes. Choose “Deposit, then balance” on the quote and set the percentage. Confirming the order raises the deposit invoice and the balance together: the job sits waiting until the deposit is paid, then goes into production, and it can't be dispatched until the balance is settled too. Both are payable by the same routes as any other invoice.

It can draft it. Paste the email the customer sent, or type your own shorthand like “500 A5 flyers, 350 silk, double sided at £45”, and it lays the lines out against your own stocks, presses and finishes, flagging anything it had to assume. What it never does is invent a price: it isn't told what your rates are. Say what to change in a sentence and it redraws its own lines rather than making you start over.

Whichever you want, line by line. Type a price you already know, or switch the line to the configurator: pick the press, the stock and the finishing, and it works out how many pieces fit a sheet, what the job costs you, and the price at your margin, all shown on screen rather than taken on trust. Presses and papers are created the first time you need them, from inside the quote.

Covered. Add a large-format printer with its cost per square metre and your roll media, and the configurator prices wide-format work by area, the same way it prices sheet work by imposition, with your margin on top, on the same quote as the business cards.

Both, and on the same quote. Add a litho press with its plate price, its makeready (a flat press-up plus a rate per plate) and its spoilage sheets, and the configurator costs a litho line the way the pressroom does: plates for the colours, makeready, spoilage counted as the paper it actually is, then the run.

Tick a hand-typed line as outsourced and name who makes it, or name a supplier against a single extra, like foiling on cards you print yourself. What they charge is the cost, so your margin stays honest. Once the job is on, raise one purchase order per supplier, email it with the PDF attached, and mark it received when the work turns up. There is no portal for them to sign into: they reply to ordinary email.

Yes. Set a credit period on a quote, or a default for every new one, and once you've confirmed the order the invoice due date and the customer's copy both reflect it: pay within 30 days, by a date shown on the invoice, instead of on receipt. If they work to purchase orders, put their PO number on the quote and it follows onto the job and the invoice, and can be corrected later without voiding anything.

Usual at a trade account. Put an accounts inbox on the firm and the invoice goes there with whoever ordered copied in, so the buyer knows it has been billed without being the one chased for it. The firm carries its own billing address, and its people sit under it, so everything that firm has had from you reads in one place. The quote still goes to whoever asked. If someone else needs it, copy them in on that quote.

Open the finished job and press Duplicate: you get a fresh draft quote carrying the same lines, ready for the new quantity or date. The drafter knows the history too, so a repeat enquiry from a customer you have quoted before is drafted from what they have actually had.

Yes. Invite them by email and they can do all the quote work. Shop settings, Stripe and billing stay with owners.

Turn it off in settings and your quotes and invoices go out clean, with no VAT line and no VAT number. If you are registered, every line defaults to 20%, but you can zero-rate an individual item, or delivery, when the job calls for it.

Deliberately not. A sent quote is frozen so what your customer accepted is exactly what you sent. To revise, clone it: you get a fresh quote to edit and the original is marked superseded, so the trail stays honest.

Pause the job and record the change: a different quantity, a reprint, whatever it is. thintent looks at what's already been invoiced and paid, and once you approve the new price it raises a supplementary invoice, a credit note, or voids and reissues the original, whichever actually fits.

Either, and you choose per quote. Offer collection, UK delivery, international or any mix of them, price each one, and the customer picks as they accept. Work that needs none of it, like a design fee, offers nothing at all. A delivery address travels onto the customer's quote and the paperwork.

Neither. It doesn't sync with Xero, QuickBooks or Sage, and it isn't a catalogue or web-to-print storefront. It does one job: getting a price in front of a customer and getting you paid for it. Invoices and payments export to CSV for your accountant, and if you run production scheduling elsewhere, keep it. This sits in front of what you already have.

They don't. The link in the email is the quote: it opens straight onto the page where they can read it, download the PDF, accept and pay. No accounts, no portal, nothing to forget.