Short answer: The best quotation maker app lets you quote without retyping — ideally straight from an order — puts your branding and accurate prices on a clean PDF, and works from your phone. ScanPix turns a WhatsApp order into a branded quotation in one tap, then hands clean line items to your billing tool.
What to look for
- No retyping. The slow part of quoting is typing every item and rate. The best apps build the quotation from something you already have — ideally an order the buyer assembled.
- Your branding. A letterhead with your business name and logo makes the quotation look established and reduces disputes.
- Phone-first. Quotes get asked for while you're on the shop floor or with a customer — you should be able to make and send one from your phone, not only a desktop.
- Clean PDF quality. A crisp, vector PDF that reads well on a phone and prints sharp.
- Price accuracy. Line totals and a grand total calculated for you, with a clear way to flag items that are still "price on request".
Quotation apps vs GST billing suites
These are two different jobs, and picking the wrong category wastes money. A GST billing suite — the Vyapar-class tools — is built for invoicing and accounting: GST tax invoices, stock, ledgers, returns, payments. If your core need is compliant billing and books, use one of those. A quotation is a different, earlier document: a priced proposal, "here's what it would cost", sent before the sale to win it.
Many billing suites can also print a quotation, and many quotation tools don't do GST billing. So the honest question is where your pain is. If you're drowning in tax invoices and stock, get a billing suite. If your pain is turning a customer's enquiry into a professional priced document fast — without retyping — that's a quotation-maker job, and the two tools sit happily side by side.
Where ScanPix fits
ScanPix quotes from orders. A buyer browses your catalogue link, picks products and quantities, and sends the order into your Orders inbox. One tap turns that order into a branded quotation — your letterhead from the catalogue cover, every item with quantity and unit price, line totals and a grand total, with price-on-request lines flagged. Because the numbers come from the order, they're accurate and the maths is done. Build the range in catalogues; the full flow is in how to make a quotation on your phone.
ScanPix does not do GST invoicing or accounting, and doesn't pretend to. When the quotation is accepted and you need to bill it, its clean line items are exactly what you enter into your GST billing tool. Think of ScanPix as the front of the deal — catalogue, order, quotation — feeding the back of it.
Category-level guidance based on publicly available information (July 2026). Tools change — check current details before deciding. ScanPix doesn't claim feature-by-feature equivalence; the point is fit for quoting from orders.
Frequently asked questions
What is the best quotation maker app?
One that lets you quote without retyping — ideally from an order — puts your branding and accurate prices on a clean PDF, and works from your phone. ScanPix turns a WhatsApp order into a branded quotation in one tap and hands clean line items to your billing tool.
Is a quotation maker the same as a GST billing app?
No. A GST billing suite handles tax invoices, stock and accounting after the sale. A quotation maker produces a priced proposal before the sale. ScanPix makes quotations; for GST billing use a billing suite — the two work side by side.
Can I make a quotation without retyping the items?
Yes. With ScanPix, a buyer assembles the order from your catalogue link, and one tap turns that order — its items, quantities and prices — into a branded quotation PDF. No retyping, and the prices are accurate because they come from the order.
Does ScanPix do GST invoices?
No. ScanPix makes quotations, not GST tax invoices, and doesn't do accounting. When a quote is accepted, its clean line items give you exactly what to enter into your GST billing software to raise the invoice.
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