In its Seattle market, Pro.com currently generates quotes for about three to four percent of all projects and wins a high number of these, according to Williams.
Pro.com can generally generate quotes much faster than its competitors, for example, thanks to the company's use of technology and its analysis of local prices (and the plan is to introduce same-day/next-day quotes soon).
It also lets freight vendors integrate a customer-facing eCommerce solution on their own websites so customers can generate quotes online.
You can see the software in action at www.myaplus.com, where California Casualty policyholders can change coverage and pay bills online, salespeople generate quotes for new policies and public safety groups can get customized content.
In order to generate quotes, the company uses a combination of public data (public rate filings) and data provided by the insurers directly – the former being an attempt to reverse engineer auto insurance pricing for those companies The Zebra doesn't yet have a relationship with.
The Quartzy bidding platform automatically generates competitive quotes from multiple suppliers that will hopefully save labs money without wasting time getting those quotes.
You can generate a quote using Travauxlib and bill your clients directly on the platform.
The first step is generating a quote, which seems like it would be a simple matter, but as Krappe points out, some customers have elaborate product catalogues, making quoting a much more complex undertaking.
But once the sales process begins in earnest, the company would use software like Apttus to generate a quote, write the contract and collect the money after the sale.
It's directed to two big groups right now, so we've made one app that's directed at do-it-yourselfers and consumers (a floor plan app), and for our B2B customers we're doing a price quote app so that electricians or heating guys for instance can walk into a building, enter the price-per-feet of their systems and quickly generate a quote".
