Quotes
Quotes
Purpose and when to use this record
Prepare a customer estimate, track its approval status, and convert accepted lines and totals into a sale.
At a glance
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Identify it by: Quote #, and Status.
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Check its business context: Customer, Salesperson, and Warehouse.
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Why care: Customer, warehouse, quantities, prices, tax, payment, and fulfillment represent different parts of the transaction. Review each before treating the sale as complete.
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Why care: Status communicates workflow progress to other staff. Change it only when the underlying work, approval, payment, or handoff has actually occurred.
Before you begin
You need the Brisk permission for the action you are taking on quotes. If a Create, Edit, or Delete control is absent, do not work around it with another user’s account; ask an administrator to review your role.
Have valid Customer records ready first. Those selections determine where this quote belongs and which later screens can find it.
Create a quote
Create a quote only after confirming that the source document or operational event has not already been entered.
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Select the business context first: Customer, Salesperson, and Warehouse.
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Enter the required identifying and operational values: Quote #, and Customer.
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Review Status, and Converted deliberately; these choices control availability or workflow rather than merely describing the record.
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Save the quote, then confirm Quote #, and Status on its detail page before continuing.
After saving: Send the estimate for approval and convert it only once; after conversion, use the resulting sale as the operational record.
Delete a quote
Delete this quote only when it was entered by mistake and no downstream history depends on it. Use a reversal, void, credit, counter-adjustment, or status correction for a real event that later changed.
Before confirming, check for related Quote Rows, Quoted Sales, Service Leads, and Service Orders. Brisk may refuse deletion when another record depends on this one; resolve the duplicate or use the supported correction workflow instead of breaking the trail.
On the confirmation page, verify Quote #, and Status. After confirmation, return to the Quotes list and make sure only the intended quote was removed.
Review quote details
Use the detail page as the shared record of what this quote currently means. Verify Status, Subtotal, Tax Total, and Total before relying on it for a decision.
Follow Customer, Salesperson, and Warehouse to determine whether the issue is on this quote or on one of those linked records.
Next check: Send the estimate for approval and convert it only once; after conversion, use the resulting sale as the operational record.
Edit an existing quote
Edit this quote to correct or complete the same source document or operational event; use the supported reversal or follow-up workflow when the business event itself changed.
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Open the detail page. Compare Customer, Salesperson, and Warehouse with the supporting document or approved request.
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Recheck Customer, Warehouse, Status, Customer Po #, Subtotal, and Tax Total, plus the remaining screen fields. These values are most likely to change customer totals, tax, payment, fulfillment, and receivables.
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Save the change, return to the list, and confirm that the quote now appears under the expected Status.
After the change: Send the estimate for approval and convert it only once; after conversion, use the resulting sale as the operational record.
Find and review quotes
Use the Quotes list to find the correct record before opening or changing it. Compare Quote #, and Status. Records with similar names or numbers can still belong to different Customer, Salesperson, and Warehouse.
Open the quote whose Quote #, and Status match the task. If it is missing, clear the list filters and recheck Status rather than creating a replacement immediately.
Fields and business rules
Brisk stores 11 user-relevant fields for this quote, including 3 linked-record selections and 1 controlled-choice field. Create and edit screens may hide calculated or workflow-managed values from this full reference.
| Field | Required | What it controls |
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| Quote # | Yes | A quote's friendly name, used to identify the transaction in lists, reports, and searches. |
| Customer | Yes | The customer that will be receiving this quote. |
| Salesperson | No | The salesperson assigned to this quote. |
| Warehouse | No | The physical location from which inventory items for this quote would be sourced. |
| Status | No | Current status of this quote. Available values: Draft, Out to Customer, Approved, Rejected. |
| Memo | No | An optional field to record notes and other information about this quote. |
| Customer Po # | No | An optional field to make note of the customer's purchase order number. |
| Subtotal | No | The total sales price of all line items before sales tax. |
| Tax Total | No | The total sales tax due for this sale. |
| Total | No | The total value recorded for this quote. |
| Converted | No | Marks this quote as conerted to an invoice and completed. |
What happens next
Send the estimate for approval and convert it only once; after conversion, use the resulting sale as the operational record.
Common mistakes and troubleshooting
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The record will not save: Recheck Quote #, and Customer and any message beside the field. A required related record may also be inactive or unavailable to your role.
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The record saved but is not available where expected: Recheck Status, then clear the filters on the destination list. A saved record can still be inactive, unpublished, locked, unapproved, or in the wrong workflow state.
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The values look right but the result is wrong: Open Customer, Salesperson, and Warehouse from the detail page. Correct the specific relationship that is wrong instead of forcing a total or status to compensate for it.