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The carpentry quote, without losing your Sunday

A carpentry quote rarely fits on three lines: measurements, timber species, ironmongery, and a lead time that depends on your supplier. Here is what changes when you write it from the workshop instead of on Sunday evening.

  • Quotes to measure
  • Deposit for materials
  • Swiss QR-bill
QuoteRégie Grand-Pont SA
Solid oak landing doors, 90 × 204 cm6 units4'080.00
Full ironmongery, adjustable hinges6 units540.00
Removal and disposal of old doors6 units420.00
Fitting and adjustment on site14 h1'260.00
Total before VAT6'300.00 CHF

A long quote should not cost you an evening

Describe the job in one sentence, “six oak landing doors, fitting included”, and the line items fall into place with their quantities. You correct the measurements, adjust a species, send. The line-by-line breakdown is what stops a client arguing with the total.

The deposit that pays for the timber

In carpentry the material is ordered before the first shaving falls. A deposit on order, written on the quote and accepted with it, spares you fronting several thousand francs for a client you do not know. It comes off the balance automatically.

Your catalogue of species and ironmongery

Your prices per running metre, your timber species, your hinges: entered once, reused on every quote. No more digging through old files to find what you charged last time.

Workshop photos inside the document

A tricky fitting is hard to explain in writing. Photos go out from the phone that took them and sit next to the line they belong to, the client sees what they are buying, and signs faster.

Can I bring over my prices per running metre?

Yes. Your price catalogue is filled in once and reused on every quote, with your own prices and your own units.

Does the quote go out in German for a German-speaking client?

Yes. You stay in your language while the document goes out in German. French or Italian, not just the screen, but the quote they receive.

What if the job overruns the quote?

State from the outset whether your figure is an estimate or a fixed price: Swiss law separates the two, and it is the leading source of disputes.

Yours is not the only trade

Every page starts from a real sample quote and the constraints of that trade, not from a copied brochure.