Product · the engine

A price you can defend, line by line

Most instant quoting is volume times a number somebody guessed. Quotometry builds the price the way your estimator would: material, machine time, labour by activity, consumables, energy, adjustments, overhead and margin - each one a line, each line traceable to a setting you control.

Explainable

Two breakdowns, on purpose

What you see

Every line: material split into part, support and waste; machine time; labour by activity - file prep, plate prep, part removal, support removal, washing, curing, depowdering, blasting, QC and bagging; consumables by name; energy; complexity and size adjustments; surcharges; the option prices; formula results; quantity discounts; floors; overhead; margin; rounding.

When a price surprises you, the answer is on the screen, not in a support ticket.

What your buyer sees

A summary you choose the detail of: total only, or a few honest groups such as material and production. Rates, costs, overhead, margin and risk cannot appear in a buyer’s payload - not because we remembered to filter them, but because there is exactly one function that produces buyer-facing output and none of them travel through it.

Which means the widget on your page cannot leak your cost base, even if someone reads the network tab.

Configuration is data

Versioned, publishable, revertible

A configuration is a document: machines, materials, process settings, rates, floors, fees, quantity breaks, lead times, options and rules. You edit a draft and publish a version. Quotes reference the version that priced them, so a quote you sent in March still explains itself in November even if you have changed your rates twice since.

Publishing runs the checks first: a configuration that cannot produce a sane price is not publishable, and it tells you which setting is the problem.

Simulator

Change a rate, watch a real part re-price

Beside the editor is a sample part and a live price. Move your machine rate, add a material surcharge, change a quantity break, and the breakdown moves while you type. It is the same engine that answers buyers, with the same configuration you are editing - a draft, before anyone can be quoted from it.

You can pin golden parts - the jobs you know the right price for - and see what a change does to all of them at once before you publish it.

Calibration

Fit the model to your own machines

Nobody knows your printers’ real travel behaviour, your nester’s real packing efficiency, or how much resin really cures inside a support. So those are not constants: they are coefficients with sensible defaults and honest bounds, and the calibration tool fits them.

Give it three or more parts you have actually made, each with its real machine time or weight. It searches the coefficients that are allowed to move, tells you the error before and after, and shows you exactly which numbers it wants to change and by how much. You apply it to a draft, look at it, and publish it - or you do not.

It fits on relative error, so a two-minute part and a two-day part count equally. A model that is right about long jobs and wrong about short ones is a model that loses money on the jobs you get most of.
For example

What a shared build actually does to a price

An SLS part is a share of a build. Here is the same bracket at one and at ten, priced by the engine against the shipped SLS configuration.

1 × bracket SLS service bureau
Material€14.35
Production€24.20
Subtotal€38.55
Total incl. shipping and VAT €56.47
€56.47 each · 21 min machine time per part · 42.6 g
10 × bracket SLS service bureau
Material€134.85
Production€199.65
Subtotal€334.50
Total incl. shipping and VAT €400.44
€40.04 each · 18 min machine time per part · 42.6 g · ten parts share one build

This is the quantity break that a volume-times-a-number calculator cannot produce, and the reason shops quoting powder work by hand tend to be wrong in both directions at once.

Rules

Formulas, price lists and the awkward cases

Formulas

An expression language for the rule your shop has that nobody else does. Typed, sandboxed, and shown in the breakdown as its own line so it is never a mystery.

Price lists

Negotiated prices for the customers who have them. Sign a buyer in with a customer token and they see their prices, not your list prices.

Floors and minimums

Per part, per line, per order. A tiny part should not quote at eleven cents just because the arithmetic says so.

Manual review

Rules that route a quote to you instead of pricing it - over a size, over a value, a material you want to check. The buyer gets an answer from a person.

Tax and fees

Tax by country and region, small-order fees, payment fees, shipping - computed once and rounded once. Reverse charge on a validated EU VAT id is not built yet.

Money, done properly

Integer minor units end to end, and decimal arithmetic in between. There is no floating point in the money, so rounding is something you chose rather than something that happened.

Bring a part you have quoted by hand

The interesting part of a demo is where the engine disagrees with you - and whether it can say why.