ROI

What does quoting by hand cost you?

Put in your own numbers. We will not guess them for you. The formula is shown, the assumptions are yours, and the result updates as you move the sliders.

Quoting time
$1,300 / month

15 quotes × 20 minutes ÷ 60 × $60 × 4.33 weeks. Layers3D prices a measured part in seconds; the time you keep is the time you decide, not the time you type.

Hours a month spent quoting21.7 h
Quotes a month that never got a file16
If one in five of those closed, at your average job$1,137 / month

The second number is the one to be skeptical of. It assumes the file-chase recovers one in five of the quotes that today die unasked. Yours might be one in ten. It is still not zero.

Become a Founding Shop

The one real case study

The shop it was built in.

Layers3D runs a 3D printing and design business in Cambridge, Ontario: quoting, production, invoicing, customer tracking, every day. These are its measured numbers, not projections. Yours will be different, which is why the calculator above asks instead of telling.

  • Quote error fell from 46% to 15% once the pricing engine learned from completed jobs
  • Most inbound quote requests arrived without a file; the file-chase now asks for it automatically, and the owner approves each send
  • A wall tile once quoted 406 hours of print time from a literal read of its orientation; support material is now measured across six orientations
  • About six in ten of the shop's revenue came from repeat customers, which is what the tracking page and follow-ups are for
The internal quote calculator: technology, printer, material, volume in cubic centimetres, infill, finish and quantity tiers, with a material estimate of 101 grams and a print time estimate of 3 hours 40 minutes.

Run it on a real part.

Founding Shops get Professional at CA$119.20 a month for their first year. Upload something you priced last week and compare.

Become a Founding Shop