The Quotes plugin lets you generate and coordinate personalized quotes for a requested cart with registered customers of your Shopware online shop. Quotes can be created directly from the backend by the shop operator or requested by the customer in the frontend. Click one of the links below to learn more. Also check out the general notes at the end of the article.
Getting Started
Configuration
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Additional General Notes
The plugin supports the standard Responsive template of Shopware. Older template versions or customized templates may require additional adjustments (to be made by the shop operator).
The quote function is only available for registered customers with a customer account in the shop.
A quote is only valid for one subshop. When you create the quote, what matters is which subshop is stored in the customer account. When the customer requests a quote, what matters is which subshop the customer is logged into. If the customer later logs into a different subshop, they will not see the previously created quote and therefore will not be able to accept it.
The plugin functions for creating and accepting a quote are conceptually based on the Shopware cart. Accordingly, both putting together a quote and accepting a quote take place in the shop frontend. This approach offers the following advantages:
When putting together a quote, the price actually to be paid by the customer can be determined and saved as a reference price for later quote processing. In addition, the usual restrictions that apply when putting together a cart also apply when putting together a quote (e.g. only products that are released for the customer's customer group can be added to a quote).
The standard checkout process is fully available when accepting a quote, meaning the customer can freely choose the billing and shipping address as well as the payment and shipping method upon acceptance, unless you have specified a shipping method in the backend.
If Shopware is configured so that documents are stored in a remote file system, the Quotes plugin has taken this setting into account since version 2.5.0 and saves documents accordingly. If you have configured your shop with this special setting, please copy all existing quote documents to the configured file system so that the Quotes plugin can continue to find them. You can find more information on this here.