Milling
Plates, brackets and prismatic parts. Material, setups, machine time and finishing on one quote, priced from your 3-axis and 5-axis rates.
- Material and stock
- Setup and run time
- Finishing
For whoever does the quoting.
For the CNC shop owner or estimator who moves between the shop floor, customer calls and the next price to send.
- The owner who still quotes
- Pick up where you left off after the next interruption, with every open check still waiting.
- The estimator building the price
- Your rates, last time’s price and the drawing’s own words, on one screen.
- The small team sharing the work
- One request, one record of what was checked, with the quote sent as the shop.
Milling, turning and short runs.
The same worksheet for each: what changes is what you price.
Turning and Swiss
Bar stock, cycle times and secondary operations, priced for each quantity from your lathe and Swiss rates.
- Bar stock
- Cycle time
- Secondary operations
Prototypes and short runs
A new part, another revision, several quantities. Setup spread across every break, and last time’s price shown when the part comes back.
- Setup across each break
- Quantity breaks
- Repeat parts
Where it fits, and where it doesn’t.
Where it fits
- Machined parts
- Milling, turning and Swiss work, including prototypes and short runs. Outside processing on a machined part can be included. Castings, forgings and customer-supplied material too: mark the blank and price the machining from your rates.
- You stay in control
- Every detail shows where on the drawing it came from. The optional starting price learns from the quotes you send, and by default fills in only once five of them have come within 30% of it. Nothing is sent until you approve it.
- Alongside your ERP
- QuoteSooner quotes. A won quote becomes an order with its PO number, a traveler PDF and an operations CSV, and your records export as CSV for the system that runs the job.
Not what it’s for (yet)
- Other trades
- Sheet metal, welding and fabrication, moulds and assembly estimating are outside the current scope.
- Shop management
- QuoteSooner is not an ERP: scheduling, purchasing and inventory stay in your existing systems, and there is no ERP connector. On Shop, a won quote posts to QuickBooks Online as an estimate or an invoice.
- Controlled work
- Defense-controlled and export-restricted drawings are outside the service’s scope.
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