Solutions · Makerspaces & universities
Instant quoting for makerspaces and universities
Members and departments rather than customers, cost codes rather than card payments, and a rate card somebody has to be able to justify.
What is actually hard about this.
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Your “customers” are members, students and departments, often on different rates.
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Somebody has to be able to explain the rate card to a finance office.
- 03
The people submitting jobs are learning, and their files show it.
How shops like yours set it up.
Price lists per member category
Students, members, staff, external - each signed in with a customer token, each seeing their own prices in the same widget.
Custom fields for cost codes and supervisors
Collected at quoting time, carried into the order and its webhook, so the recharge is not a monthly archaeology exercise.
DFM turned up
The checks are teaching material. A student who is told their wall is 0.4 mm learns something; one whose print fails silently does not.
The hosted quoting page
Most makerspaces do not want a web project. A link on the intranet is enough.
The short list.
- Customer price lists by category
- Custom fields on the quote
- Strict DFM with explanatory text
- Hosted quoting page
- Manual review for anything unusual
Not quite you?
Print farms
Dozens of near-identical machines, thin margins, and a queue that has to stay full. Quote in seconds and let the arithmetic be right at volume.
Read moreService bureaus
Several processes, real lead times and buyers who compare you against three other quotes. Answer first, and answer with a breakdown.
Read moreJob shops
Quoting is the bottleneck and the estimator is one person. Automate the parts that are arithmetic and keep the judgement.
Read moreInternal labs
A shop inside a company, charging other teams. The price has to be defensible internally, and the queue has to be visible.
Read moreBring a part you quoted by hand.
Price it on the free plan with your own machines and rates, and see where the engine agrees with you, and why it does not.
Free plan, no card. Paid plans by the month, cancel any time.