Questions web studios ask about QuoteCloud
Straight answers about proposals, payments, change requests, care plans, SEO retainers and integrations.
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Common questions from web studios, developers and SEO specialists: how to price a site by page and phase, whether the Gantt is included (Business), how deposits and milestones work, how change requests and revision rounds are handled, how care plans and retainers renew (never automatically), what connects through Zapier or the API, and what QuoteCloud doesn't do (rankings, analytics, hosting, billing).
Proposals and pricing
What is QuoteCloud for web developers and SEO specialists?
QuoteCloud is proposal software. Web studios, developers and SEO specialists use it to send website, app and SEO proposals, care plans and milestone sign-offs that clients open in a browser, choose options in, sign and, where you take money on signing, pay through Stripe or PayPal.
Can I price a website by page and by phase?
Yes. Put each phase (discovery, design, build, launch) as a section of the price table with its own subtotal, and use pages, page templates or hours as the quantity on a line. Change the quantity and the totals, tax and deposit update. Price tables are on Essentials and up.
Can clients choose features and add-ons?
Yes. Make features such as an online shop or bookings, and add-ons such as copywriting, optional items. The client ticks what they want before signing and the total follows. Single-choice groups suit tiers, such as care plan levels.
Can I quote time and materials instead of a fixed fee?
Yes. Put hours by role as the quantity at your hourly rate and label the total as an estimate. Your terms explain how you invoice actual hours. QuoteCloud doesn't track time.
Can I show the project timeline in the proposal?
Yes, on the Business plan. A Gantt chart in the proposal shows phases and milestones, such as discovery, design, build and launch over 14 weeks, so the client signs the plan with the price.
Payments and milestones
Can clients pay a deposit when they sign?
Yes, on Essentials and up, with your own Stripe or PayPal account. Set the payment on signing as a percentage, such as 40%, or a fixed amount, or ask for the full amount. The money goes to your account.
Does QuoteCloud invoice the later milestones?
No. Write the milestones into the proposal, such as 30% at design sign-off and 30% at launch, and invoice them from your accounting system. QuoteCloud takes the payment on signing only: no instalments, automatic billing or reminders.
Can two people sign the proposal?
Yes. Add several signers, such as both business owners, each with their own signature. No account is needed to sign, and the signed document carries a certificate of authenticity and audit trail.
Changes and sign-off
How do I handle change requests and scope creep?
Put your scope and revision rounds in the proposal, locked on Business. When the client asks for more, use Revise Last Version to create a new version with the change and its price, and the client signs it before you start. Version history is on the Business plan.
Can the client sign off each milestone?
Yes. Send a sign-off document for each milestone, for example from the Project Customer Acceptance Form template, listing what was delivered. The client signs it online and you invoice the milestone from your own accounts.
Can my team edit a proposal at the same time?
Your team and the client can leave comments and replies on a document. Real-time co-editing isn't a QuoteCloud feature, so agree who edits a proposal at a time.
Care plans and SEO retainers
Can I sell care plans and SEO retainers as monthly charges?
Yes. Show them as repeating charges with a term, monthly or annual, in the agreement, apart from any one-off fee. QuoteCloud shows the charges and can take a first payment on signing; your studio invoices the rest.
Do care plans and retainers renew automatically?
No. Each agreement has an expiry date and the Expiring Soon filter lists those ending soon. Send each client a new agreement, one at a time or with bulk send on Essentials and up, and it continues when they sign.
Will QuoteCloud show my SEO results or rankings?
No. QuoteCloud doesn't connect to analytics or Search Console and doesn't track rankings. Any result in an SEO proposal is your studio's own estimate, labelled as such, and you report results with your own tools.
Integrations
Does QuoteCloud connect with Jira, Asana, monday.com, Trello or GitHub?
Jira, Asana, monday.com and Trello connect through Zapier or the QuoteCloud API on Essentials and up, so a signed proposal can create a project or a card. There is no GitHub or code-repository integration.
Does QuoteCloud work with Xero, QuickBooks, Pipedrive and HubSpot?
Xero, QuickBooks and Pipedrive are native on the Business plan; on other plans Xero and QuickBooks connect through Zapier. HubSpot and Zoho connect through Zapier.
Is there a fee for documents created through Zapier or the API?
Yes. Documents created through the API or Zapier cost US$2.00 each for 1 to 1,000 a month, US$1.80 for 1,001 to 5,000 and US$1.60 above 5,000. No fee is stated for Make.
What QuoteCloud doesn't do
Clear limits, so you know what stays with your own tools and services.
Rankings and traffic
No rank tracking, analytics or Search Console features, and no SEO guarantees. Results in a proposal are your own estimate.
Hosting and uptime
No hosting, uptime, monitoring or backup features. Those are your studio's services with your own providers.
Billing after signing
No automatic or recurring billing, instalments or payment reminders. A deposit or full payment is taken on signing; you invoice the rest.
Auto-renewal
Agreements end on their expiry date. Renewals are new agreements, sent one by one or in bulk, that the client signs.
Code integrations
No GitHub or repository integration. Jira, Asana, monday.com and Trello connect through Zapier or the API.
Editing at the same time
No real-time co-editing. Your team and the client leave comments and replies on the document.
Which plan a studio needs
Prices in US dollars per user a month. Essentials and Business start with a 14-day free trial, no credit card.
Starter, $14.95
eSignatures (on every plan, including Free), image and gallery blocks, and PDF export.
Essentials, $39
Price tables, the catalogue, templates, the content library, payments on signing, tracking, expiry dates, bulk send, and Zapier, Make and the API.
Business, $59
Adds the Gantt chart, content locking, version history, approvals, the Forms block, the AI Co-Worker and native Pipedrive, Xero and QuickBooks.
Try it with your next proposal
Free for 14 days, no credit card required. Send us your current proposal and we'll convert one template for you during the trial.
Every job, its own page
Each page shows the job in a sample document from a fictional studio.
Win the work
Website proposals, app proposals, features & add-ons and fixed fee or hourly.
Deliver it
Milestones & sign-off, change requests, discovery and case studies.
Keep the client
Run the studio
Every page for web studios
Every page of the QuoteCloud web developers & SEO microsite, with a sample document for each job.
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Website build proposalsDiscovery, design, build and launch as phases on a Gantt, pages as quantities and a deposit paid when the client signs.Explore
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Scope, revision rounds & change requestsLocked scope and revision-round terms, and every change request priced and signed as a revised version before work starts.Explore
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Hosting, maintenance & support plansCare plan tiers as packages, monthly or annual charges in the agreement, expiry dates and renewals bulk-sent for signing.Explore
- App & software development proposalsiOS, Android and web app estimates by feature and sprint, with the hours, the options and the client's sign-off in one document.
- Optional features & add-onsE-commerce, bookings, a second language and integrations as optional items the client ticks, with the total and deposit following.
- Fixed fee or time & materials estimatesOffer a fixed fee and a time-and-materials estimate side by side, so the client chooses how they'd rather pay.
- Deposits, milestones & client sign-offA deposit on signing, later milestones set out in the contract and a separate sign-off document for each milestone.
- Discovery questionnairesThe questions you ask before you quote, answered inside a document with the Forms block, then carried into the proposal.
- Portfolio & case studiesYour best work, team bios and process as content library blocks, dropped into every proposal and kept up to date in one place.
- SEO proposals & retainersAudit, technical fixes, content and link building as monthly charges in the agreement, with results only ever your own estimate.
- Project tools, CRM & accounting connectionsSigned proposals to Jira, Asana, monday.com or Trello through Zapier or the API, Pipedrive directly, and Xero or QuickBooks.
- Web, SEO & app templatesReal QuoteCloud templates for website development, redesigns, SEO, maintenance and app projects, ready to make your own.
- QuoteCloud implementation for studiosYour proposal templates converted, your rates in the catalogue, Stripe connected and your project tools linked.
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