What are Canvas Mode and Grid Mode in QuoteCloud?

They are the two document editing modes in QuoteCloud. Canvas Mode gives you a freeform design canvas where content blocks can be placed anywhere on the page. Grid Mode gives you a structured layout of rows and columns. Choose the mode that best suits the content, the audience and the outcome of each document.

How does Canvas Mode work?

Canvas Mode works like a visual design tool, similar to Canva or PowerPoint. Text, images, price tables, diagrams, shapes, videos, QR codes and other content blocks can be positioned freely, so you can create layered, highly customised layouts that look like a professional presentation, brochure or designed proposal.

What is Canvas Mode best for?

Canvas Mode is ideal when presentation, branding and visual impact matter: highly visual sales proposals, executive presentations, marketing documents, product showcases, destination presentations, designed cover pages, branded client-facing documents, one-page summaries and visual pitch documents.

How does Grid Mode work?

In Grid Mode you build documents from rows and columns. Each row acts as a container: choose how many columns it needs, adjust the width of each column, then place content blocks inside each column and stack them vertically. You get the control of a professional layout system while the document stays easy to edit, organise and maintain.

What is Grid Mode best for?

Grid Mode suits structured, repeatable documents: business proposals, quotes and pricing documents, statements of work, client reports, project plans, travel itineraries, internal documentation, structured sales templates and other repeatable document layouts.

Can I use price tables, diagrams and other content blocks in both modes?

Yes. Both modes are built on QuoteCloud content blocks. In Canvas Mode you position blocks such as text, images, price tables, diagrams, shapes, videos and QR codes anywhere on the page; in Grid Mode you place content blocks inside columns. QuoteCloud offers 18 content blocks, including price tables, spreadsheets, Gantt charts, forms and eSignatures.

Why use QuoteCloud instead of a traditional word processor?

A word processor gives you one rigid document flow. QuoteCloud's dual editing modes give you the best of both worlds: Canvas Mode for freeform design, creative layouts and precise visual positioning, and Grid Mode for structured rows, flexible columns and organised business document layouts, with pricing, interactive content and eSignatures in the same document.

How do I get started? Is there a free trial?

Start a free 14-day trial with no credit card required and build your first document in Canvas Mode or Grid Mode, or book a demo to see both editing modes in action.

Two powerful ways to build documents: Canvas & Grid

Some documents need the freedom of a design canvas. Others need rows and columns. QuoteCloud’s document editor gives you both.

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One page. Two ways to build it.

Follow one proposal from freeform design on a canvas to structured rows and columns.

01 Canvas Mode

Start on a blank canvas

Canvas Mode works like a visual design tool, much like Canva or PowerPoint. Pick the page size and orientation, show the grid and turn on snapping.
02 Canvas Mode

Place blocks anywhere

Drop text, images, price tables, QR codes and signatures exactly where you want them, free of a traditional document flow.
03 Canvas Mode

Drag, resize and snap

Pull a photo into place and resize it freely. Alignment guides and snap to grid keep every edge precise.
04 Canvas Mode

Rotate and layer

Tilt the price card and bring it forward over the photo. Layered layouts that read like a designed brochure.
05 Grid Mode

Build with rows instead

In Grid Mode every row is a container. Content blocks sit inside its columns and stack neatly, top to bottom.
06 Grid Mode

Set columns and widths

Choose how many columns each row needs and drag their widths. Structured, repeatable and easy to maintain.

Layers

Hero image
Price card
Title
Intro text
Highlights
QR code
eSignature
Lake image

Rows

Row 1
Row 2
Row 3
Row 4

Page

SizeA4 · 210 × 297 mm OrientationPortrait

The best of both worlds

Together, Canvas and Grid make QuoteCloud a document creation platform for teams that need more than a traditional word processor.

Canvas Mode Freeform design, creative layouts and precise visual positioning.

Grid Mode Structured rows, flexible columns and organised business document layouts.

The same content blocks in either mode

Explore all 18 content blocks

Text
Image
PDF
Video
Diagram
Form
Spreadsheet
Gantt chart
Travel itinerary
Shape
Divider
Button
QR code
Price table
Chart
Timeline
Map
eSignature

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Pick the mode that suits the document

Choose for the content, the audience and the outcome.

Canvas Mode is perfect for

Highly visual sales proposals
Executive presentations
Marketing documents
Product showcases
Destination presentations
Designed cover pages
Branded client-facing documents
One-page summaries
Visual pitch documents
Highly visual sales proposals
Executive presentations
Marketing documents
Product showcases
Destination presentations
Designed cover pages
Branded client-facing documents
One-page summaries
Visual pitch documents

Grid Mode is ideal for

Business proposals
Quotes and pricing documents
Statements of work
Client reports
Project plans
Travel itineraries
Internal documentation
Structured sales templates
Repeatable document layouts
Business proposals
Quotes and pricing documents
Statements of work
Client reports
Project plans
Travel itineraries
Internal documentation
Structured sales templates
Repeatable document layouts

See it in proposal software, quoting software, travel itineraries and ready-made templates.

One editor inside one platform

Designed or structured, every document can carry price tables and eSignatures, and QuoteCloud connects to the CRM, accounting and payment tools you already use.