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Frequently asked questions

What people ask us before getting started: how payment works, whether it fits their country, what their customer sees and what happens to their data. If your question isn't here, write to us and we'll answer it —and then add it here.

What it is and who it's for

What is cotizaciónweb?

A cloud platform to create, send and track your company's quotes. It brings together your catalog with your prices, the editor that builds the PDF, sending by email, the link your customer opens and accepts online, and the profile with everything that has happened with each customer.

How is it different from quoting in Word or Excel?

A Word or Excel template gives you the document, but half-built: you fix cells and margins every time, the file shifts when opened on another computer and nobody knows which version is the latest. Above all, it tells you nothing after you send it. Here the document comes out finished, the customer gets a link they can accept in one click, you see whether they opened it and how long they looked, and the quote's status updates on its own. Your prices, taxes and text are already saved, so the next quote doesn't start from scratch.

What size of company is it for?

Small businesses and sales teams. It works the same for one person quoting alone as for a team with several sales reps: plans start with one user and you add as many as you need for $5 a month each.

Does it work if I sell services and not products?

Yes. The catalog stores services just like products, and each item has its own unit of measure, so quoting by the hour, by the visit or by the project works the same as quoting by the unit.

Is it a CRM?

It has one built in, focused on quote-based selling: the customer profile brings together their quotes, the log of what you discussed with them and the follow-up tasks. If your sales don't go through quotes, this isn't the tool for you.

Do I need someone from IT to install or set it up?

No. It runs in the browser and the initial setup is a three-step wizard that fills in the currency, tax and time zone for your country.

What language is it in?

English and Spanish. It was born in Latin America, and countries across the Americas and Spain come preconfigured with their currency, their tax and their tax ID.

Trying it and getting started

What do I need to create my account?

An email address and your company details. You create the account with a verification code sent to your email —or sign in directly with Google— and then a three-step wizard asks for your company details and your profile.

How long until my account is up and running?

Minutes. When you finish the wizard the account already has the base sales stages, your country's currency and tax and quote numbering ready; you can issue the first one right away.

Do I have to install anything?

No. Everything happens in the browser, so there's no software to install or update, and no server to maintain.

Can I use it from my phone?

Yes. Since it's a web platform, it opens in your phone's browser just like on a computer, with no app to download.

Do I need a credit card to try it?

No. The 14-day trial doesn't ask for a card.

Can I see what it looks like before creating an account?

Yes, two ways. The feature pages show real screens from the product, and the three free tools on this site let you generate a PDF document without signing up. If you'd rather have someone show it to you, write to us and we'll set up a demo.

Can I load my customers and products during the trial?

Yes. You can create them by hand from day one, and with the Pro plan load them all at once from an Excel spreadsheet using the template we provide.

Will you help us get set up?

Write to us at contacto@cotizacionweb.cl and we'll work through it with you based on how you quote today and what you need to bring over.

Pricing and payment

How does the 14-day trial work?

You create your account, pick the plan you want to try and use the full platform for 14 days. We don't ask for a credit card to start.

What happens when the 14 days are over?

You can sign up for the plan you were trying at any time, without waiting for the trial to end. If you need more time to decide, write to us and we'll work it out.

Do prices include taxes?

No. Prices are in US dollars and are net: they don't include VAT, sales tax or any other local tax.

How does the yearly discount work?

Paying the full year upfront gets you a 17% discount on the twelve months. It's a single charge at the start of the period: $199 on Basic and $299 on Pro.

How do I pay?

With PayPal, in US dollars: for now it's the only payment method. If you need to pay another way, write to contacto@cotizacionweb.cl and we'll work it out.

How much does it cost to add users?

Every plan includes one user. Each extra user costs $5 a month and you can add as many as you need.

Is sending from Gmail included in any plan?

No. Sending your quotes from your own Gmail, business or personal —instead of the system's no-reply address— is a separate add-on: $5 a month, on top of any of the three plans.

Can I change plans later?

Yes. You can move up a plan when your business needs it and the change is available in your account right away; the adjustment shows up on your billing.

When should I move to Pro?

When you stop quoting on your own. Pro unlocks the full CRM, the Kanban view, viewer tracking, the analytics dashboard and purchase and work orders.

What does Enterprise include and how do I get it?

Enterprise adds white-label on the viewer, the PDF and the links, custom integrations with your other tools, an audit log for the admin and dedicated 24/7 support. Custom development is quoted separately. It's put together case by case: write to us and we'll work it out.

Can I quote in my local currency?

Yes. The plan is billed in dollars, but your quotes go out in the currency you choose —or several at once— with automatic exchange rates. Your tax is set up once and applied on its own, and you can quote with or without it.

Can I cancel any time?

Yes. There's no minimum term: you can cancel your plan whenever you want from your account.

What the platform includes

What can I do with the platform?

Keep your catalog with prices and taxes, build the quote and its PDF, send it by email from the platform itself, share a link where the customer reviews and accepts it, keep each customer's profile with their history and see how the month is going on the metrics dashboard. Pro adds purchase orders and work orders.

Can I tell whether my customer opened the quote?

With Pro, yes: every opening of the link is recorded, along with how long they looked and whether they downloaded the PDF. On Basic you know it was sent and delivered, but not what the customer did with it.

Can my customer accept the quote online?

Yes, on every plan. They open the link without signing up or installing anything, accept in one click and can leave a comment; the quote moves to accepted on its own.

Does it issue purchase orders and work orders?

Yes, with the Pro plan. They're the two documents that follow an accepted quote: the purchase order formalizes the order with your supplier and the work order instructs the job, and they're issued with the same format and the same branding as the quote.

Does it have reports or statistics?

Every plan includes the home screen with the month's summary: how much you've quoted, how many were accepted and how much you convert. Pro adds the full dashboard, with the conversion funnel, the monthly trend, average deal size and the sales rep leaderboard.

What is the Kanban view?

A board where each quote is a card you drag between stages, instead of only seeing it in a list. It comes with the Pro plan; Basic uses the table view with filters.

Can I save my product list with its prices?

Yes, on every plan. Each product keeps its code, price, margin, maximum discount, taxes, unit and images, and goes into the quote with all of that already filled in.

Is there any AI?

Yes. The home screen uses AI to summarize how your sales are performing and suggest where to improve, based on your own statistics and not generic data.

What exactly is the difference between Basic and Pro?

Basic is for quoting well and letting the customer accept online. Pro is for managing: it adds tracking of what the customer does with the quote, the full CRM, the analytics dashboard, Kanban, purchase and work orders and bulk import from Excel. The pricing page has the feature-by-feature comparison.

My brand on the document

Does the PDF carry my logo?

Yes, two of them: one for the header and one for the footer, uploaded once in the company settings and applied to every document.

Does the cotizaciónweb brand appear on what my customer receives?

No. No plan puts a watermark on the document. With Enterprise, the viewer and the links your customer opens also carry your brand instead of ours.

Can I change the document's colors and design?

Basic includes one design template. Pro lets you create several, with their colors, and set one as the company default.

What email address does the quote reach my customer from?

By default it comes from the system email. If you'd rather it come from your own business Gmail or the sales rep's —so the customer sees your real address and replies land in your inbox— that's a separate add-on for $5 a month.

Can I save the text I always write?

Yes. Quote introductions and conclusions are saved as reusable templates, and so are the email subject and body, with variables that fill in the number, the customer and the expiry date on their own. Basic uses the predefined templates; Pro lets you create your own.

Can I use my own sales stages?

Yes. The stages a quote goes through can be created, renamed, reordered and given their own color. Basic allows up to ten; Pro has no limit.

My country, currency and taxes

Does it work in my country?

Most likely. Countries across Latin America, Spain and the United States come preconfigured, each with its currency, local tax, tax ID, time zone and regions. Anywhere else, you set the currency and tax rate once and quote normally.

Can I quote in dollars, euros or other currencies?

Yes. There are 21 currencies available, and the exchange rate updates daily from official sources, so a quote's amount isn't frozen at the rate on the day you created it.

How does it handle sales tax or VAT?

You set your tax rate once and it's applied automatically. You can issue tax-exempt quotes, and with Pro define your own taxes, several per item, and tax on tax.

What if my customer is in another country?

The tax ID field adapts to the country and the type of customer.

Does it issue invoices?

No. cotizaciónweb issues quotes, purchase orders and work orders, which aren't tax documents. We don't issue invoices or connect to tax authorities: you keep invoicing with the system you already use for that.

What currency are the plans priced in?

US dollars: $20 a month for Basic, with no local taxes included, paid with PayPal. That's independent of the currency you quote your customers in.

My team

How many users does the plan include?

One. Each extra user costs $5 a month, and you can add as many as you need; the platform keeps track of the licenses purchased, in use and available.

How do I add someone from my team?

You invite them by email from the platform, with their role already assigned. The invitation can be resent or canceled, and the person joins by creating an account or with one they already have.

What's the difference between an admin and a sales rep?

The admin is in control: company details, users, templates, stages, bulk deletions and the trash. The sales rep works the deals —quotes, serves customers, follows up— without being able to change the company settings.

What happens if someone leaves the company?

Their user is deactivated. Nothing they did is deleted: their quotes and history stay where they are, and the license is freed up for someone else.

Can each sales rep appear with their own name and email?

Yes. Each seat has its own sales identity —name, visible email and photo— which is what the customer sees on the document and in the email.

Can I see how each sales rep is doing?

With Pro, yes: the dashboard includes a leaderboard with each rep's quotes, total amount, accepted amount and conversion rate, and the charts can be filtered by rep.

Can I manage more than one company with the same account?

Yes. An account can belong to several companies and you switch between them from a selector, without signing out. Each company's data is kept completely separate.

Can I change someone's role later?

Yes, at any time, and you can also reactivate a deactivated user.

My data

Is my data mixed with other companies' data?

No. Each company has its own database, isolated from the rest: your customers, your prices and your quotes don't live alongside anyone else's.

What happens if I delete something by mistake?

When you delete from a list you have a few seconds to undo. And even once confirmed, it isn't lost: deleted customers, quotes, products and suppliers go to a trash the admin can restore them from.

Can I tell who did what in the account?

The platform logs activity on quotes, products and customers, and archiving, restoring and permanent deletion are audited with their author. Enterprise makes that log available to the admin.

Can the support team access my account?

Yes, so they can help you inside your account when you ask. Everything they do is attributed to the support agent in the audit log, never mixed up with what your team did.

How do you protect access?

The account is verified with a code sent by email, sign-in attempts are rate-limited, the links the system generates are signed and expire, and critical actions ask you to confirm your password again.

Can I get my data out whenever I want?

Yes. Customers, products and suppliers export to Excel from the platform itself, in full or filtered.

Bringing over what I already have

Can I load my customers and products from a spreadsheet?

Yes, with the Pro plan. Download the template, upload your Excel file and the import runs in the background with a progress bar; before it's applied it shows you what will happen so you can confirm, and if something goes wrong you can undo it.

What happens to rows with errors?

They don't stop the import. When it finishes you get a downloadable report with the errors row by row, and duplicates are skipped and reported instead of duplicating the record.

What if my data is in other software?

If that system exports to Excel, it works: match it to the template and upload it the same way. If you're not sure how to get it out, write to us at contacto@cotizacionweb.cl and we'll take a look.

Can I update prices across the whole catalog at once?

Yes, with Pro. There's an import mode designed to update products already loaded in bulk, instead of creating them again.

Can I bring over my old quotes?

Bulk import covers customers, products and suppliers, not quotes already issued. The usual approach is to start quoting on the platform from now on and leave the history where it is; if you need to recover something specific, it can be created by hand.

Integrations and what it doesn't do yet

What does it connect to today?

Google, so you can sign in without another password; Gmail, so quotes go out from your business email; Excel, to load and export your data; and Google's AI for the performance analysis.

Do you have an API?

Not a public one yet. It's on the roadmap, but until it exists we'd rather say so than announce a date.

Does it connect to my ERP or invoicing system?

Not out of the box. Enterprise includes custom-built integrations with the tools your team already uses; they're put together case by case and quoted separately.

Can I send quotes over WhatsApp?

There's no automatic WhatsApp sending. What you can do is share the viewer link or the PDF wherever you like, WhatsApp included, and link-open tracking works the same.

Is there a mobile app?

There's no app to install, and you don't need one: the platform opens in your phone's browser just like on a computer.

Support

How do I ask for help?

Through the chat on this site, which opens at the bottom right, or by writing to contacto@cotizacionweb.cl. If you're evaluating the platform for your company, the sales form is the fastest way.

Does support change by plan?

Yes. Basic has standard email support, Pro has priority support and Enterprise includes dedicated 24/7 support.

What languages do you support?

English and Spanish.

The free tools on this site

What are the free tools on this site?

Three generators that build a PDF document right in your browser: a quote, a purchase order and a work order. They get you through today and, along the way, show you the format the platform issues.

Do I have to sign up to use them?

No. Fill in the details, generate the PDF and download it. There's no account to create and no usage limit.

Do they carry a watermark?

No. The PDF comes out clean, with your details and none of our advertising.

Is my data stored on a server?

No. Everything happens in your browser: the details you type and the PDF that's generated aren't sent anywhere.

Where do they fall short of the platform?

They don't remember anything. Each document starts from scratch, there's no saved catalog or customers, you don't know whether your customer opened it and there's no way for them to accept it online. That starts with the Basic plan, from $20 a month.

Didn't find what you were looking for?

The chat on this page is answered by a person, and we reply at contacto@cotizacionweb.cl just the same. If what you want is to see the platform with your own numbers, our sales team can help.