The first time one of our print shops asked us — "can I add a foiled-edge variant for the lawyer who keeps asking?", in late October — we told her: yes, but tell us by Wednesday and we'll have it for you Friday. She did not ask again. v0.5 is the version where she does not have to.
New in v0.5
- →Products page. Add and edit products in the browser. The next quote uses your changes.
- →Required vs optional fields. Choose what each product needs from the customer, and what's optional.
- →Cell mapping. Set which cell in your pricing sheet each field maps to. Change it any time.
- →Reply detection. The system stops processing its own draft replies as new quotes.
Products page
Open the products page. Add a product. Name its fields, decide what the customer needs to tell you (and what they don't), and point each field at the right cell in your pricing sheet. Save it. The next quote that comes in uses the new product.
Here is what a product looks like inside v0.5:
Product as configured in v0.5
Required fields are the ones the customer must tell you for the quote to make sense. Optional ones are nice-to-have — if the customer mentions them, the system will use them; if not, it falls back to your default. The output cell is the cell in your pricing sheet that holds the final price for that product. It's the one piece of information the system reads back to put in the reply.
Reply detection
Earlier, the system processed every email in the inbox — including its own draft replies, when those landed back in the inbox via the normal email loop. The customer's name would get pulled out of a draft reply, a fresh quote would be drafted for a job that didn't exist, and the shop owner would catch it on review. v0.5 won't make that mistake again. The pipeline now inspects every inbound message and skips anything that is a reply to mail we sent ourselves.
What gets processed · what doesn't
What this enables. No more phantom quote drafts for jobs that don't exist. No more wondering why the held-quotes queue has an entry that looks oddly familiar.
What comes next
v1.0 is the release that lets a print shop sign up at the website without us coming round to set the system up. That means a public sign-up page, a billing system, and a thorough security review of the whole pipeline. It also means Quotation AI gets a new name. The rebrand is coming with the public launch.
Until then, if you run a print shop and would like to try v0.5 on real enquiries, write to us.