CISCO QUOTING SOFTWARE (PqW)
"No other Quoting software that we considered, fit the criteria we needed as an ICT VAR. They didn’t understand the ITC business and they didn’t speak our language."
PqW’s Quoting software supports all the functions you need, to guarantee accurate margin forecasting & easy to approve quotes in just a few clicks.
STEP 1 – IMPORT & INTEGRATE BoMs
With a few clicks, import and merge the BoMs you want to include in your quote, including large BoMs, file formats of various vendors, item data is automatically aligned. No need to adjust, copy and paste or develop your own solution.
Imports any 3rd party BoMs in Excel or PDF format, even those that aren’t ‘clean’
One consistent, formatted draft that walks you through the quoting process
Includes as many lines as you need (30,000+ lines)
Items by sections, not lumped together
For Cisco partners, 1-click import of CCW, CCW-R, Smartnet renewal maintenance
Handle more business and bigger deals, with ease
Create one workspace for your entire team, track edits and ownership of edits
Read more about our Integrations
STEP 2 – QUOTE EDITING & ASSEMBLING
Utilize PqW’s sophisticated yet easy-to-use calculating platform, designed uniquely to apply all functions and calculations needed when quoting items and services for ICT. Optimize your quotes, avoid mistakes, miscalculations, and much more.
Visualize various versions of your quote, with a couple of clicks
Headings and Sub-heads by category, items, etc. for all easy reference & maximum clarity on what is being quoted
Easily manipulate any pricing fields of specific items, item groups, and categories using advanced filters such as hardware, software & services, etc.
Set customer pricing based on margin, mark-up, discount of list price, service duration, credit, and more
What-if scenarios, add comments to your quote drafts and share with your teams, and track all editing, manage access to quote edits
Crunch the numbers quickly with your customers, in real time
For Cisco partners, VIP deals access to discounts, rebates from Cisco Commerce Workshops
STEP 3 – SHARE & SEND BEAUTIFUL QUOTES
Take on more business, enjoy highly effective meetings
Substantially reduce the number of quote-related meetings with your clients
Exceedingly simple to make quick revisions at your customers’ request
Simplify the quote-approval process for your customer
Present a sophisticated and professional document, that is easy to read and that impresses your client
Present your business as an even more high-end professional VAR, unlike most of your competitors
Sending customers a quote that requires many meetings, back and forth editing, tweaks and tracking, or even feeling embarrassed about a spreadsheet or document that’s hard to approve, can all cause a loss in business. Save expensive resources and be proud of the quotes you share with your customers.
Flexible Pricing
StrataVAR includes a powerful, flexible and agile pricing engine that enables you to:
Adjust flexible discounting based on discounts of list price, markup, margin, target customer price, and target cost
Create what-if scenarios of pricing that you can share with your teams
Track your team’s edits of pricing
Group your Quote Items
Customize your quote by grouping the items, so you can
Create a legible, easy to review layout that’s easy to scan
Group by many category options; professional services, sub-totals, total price, subscription and more
Create a beautifully laid out quote that's easy to approve
Grouping your quote creates beautiful, easy to read quotes that helps you iterate quickly, allows all stakeholders to be on the same page while processing the quote, from preparation to approval.
Easily Integrate your Vendor & Disti Quotes
With a few clicks, create a quote from multiple BoMs
Import large BoMs easily with StrataVARs’ Disti Import
Import any amount of Disti BoMs from any vendor, in any format
PqW maintains the structure of your original BoMs, even ‘non-organized’ spreadsheets
Consolidate all of your quoting items and services into one workspace for easy access to all items you’ve ever quoted
For Cisco Partners, import Cisco CCW
VIP Rebates
Cisco quoting software For Cisco partners
While creating your quote, get visibility into real time rebates
Get your automatically calculated Cisco VIP and other rebates, based on VAR’s eligibility, Part Number & other rules
Adapt your quote while accessing the latest rebates
Customized Quote Export Format Template
Custom, sophisticated quote format, well beyond what any other tool offers - Cisco quoting software
Export your quotes in PDF, CSV or Excel formats, customized export in JSON or XML
Break your quote down into different Excel tabs, categorized by topic and format of your choice
Brand and customize the format of your quote, with static and dynamic content / information
Control the visibility of columns, sections, decide which data you want your customers to see in the customer facing quote
Customizable, flexible subtotal calculations at any level of the quote
Apply customized modifications
Create a quote from multiple multi-currency BoMs, into one selected currency quote, using dated exchange rates
Signature integration
Product Catalog
Manage your own catalogue, from all quotes and BoMs that you import into the workspace.
Automatically create a comprehensive catalogue of easily accessible items for quickly creating future quote
Make your professional services quickly accessible to the quote
Classify and categorize every item according to vendor, item type, by storage, product family, etc for quick access
Pull items from the catalog, define specific default or customized rules about existing items or categories you'd like to apply for your quote
