Your customers request a quote and order at the agreed price

A “Request a quote” button shows on the product page, next to the add to cart, with the combination and quantity the customer has chosen. In the cart, “Request a quote for this cart” takes all its lines. The request form shows them with their current price: the customer adjusts the quantities, removes a line, writes a message and can attach a file (drawing, specifications, photo).

Requests are kept to signed in customers, since an accepted quote becomes a cart of their account. A visitor is sent to the login page, then brought back to the form with the product, combination and quantity they had chosen. You receive an email, the customer an acknowledgement.

Requests arrive in Orders, LNK Quotes, filtered by status. For each quote you see the customer, their company, their message and their attachment. You set the quantity and unit price excluding tax of each line, prefilled with the price the customer saw, then the validity date (30 days by default, adjustable from 1 to 365) and a message. “Send the offer” emails the customer the lines, prices, total excluding tax and the link to their quote.

You can send a corrected proposal again as long as the customer has not accepted it, or refuse the request with a message. An accepted or closed quote becomes read only.

In their account, the customer finds “My quotes”: reference, date, amount excluding tax and status of each quote (sent, offer received, accepted, ordered, refused, expired). On the detail page, “Accept and order” creates their cart with the lines of the quote and opens the native PrestaShop checkout. They choose shipping and payment as usual; your taxes and carriers apply.

The quoted prices go through the native specific prices of PrestaShop, limited to this cart, this customer and this shop, from the proposed quantity. They serve no other order and no other customer. The validated order is linked to the quote, which becomes “ordered”, and you open it in one click from the quote.

The customer can also refuse the proposal. Once the validity date has passed, the quote becomes “expired” and its specific prices are removed, with no scheduled task to install: the module checks it each time quotes are viewed.

A “Quote only” switch in the Modules tab of the product page, saved as soon as you flip it. The product stays online, but the add to cart is disabled on its page and in product lists (the theme greys out or hides the button), and the quote button becomes the main button. The module does not change the product: turn the switch off or disable the module, and the add to cart comes back.

A server side safeguard removes this product from any cart that is not the cart of an accepted quote, whatever the way it was added (product page, list, quick order, another module). The customer sees a message inviting them to request a quote.

You can also show the quote button on these products only: setting “Request a quote button”.

A PDF or an image (JPEG, PNG, WebP), 5 MB at most. Images are checked then fully re-encoded, which wipes any hidden content; each file gets a random name. They are stored outside the module folder, in var/lnk_quote/, and only the back office downloads them. Under Apache, a .htaccess refuses any direct access. Nginx ignores .htaccess files: add the block given in the FAQ to your server configuration. The attachment can be turned off with a switch in the settings.

A deleted customer, by you or following a GDPR request, takes their quotes, their attachments and the specific prices of their quote cart with them. An order already placed keeps its record in PrestaShop.

Figures measured on the shipped module, gzip compressed (level 9). The script: 1.0 KB (997 bytes), loaded on product pages, the cart page and the quote request page. The stylesheet: 0.4 KB (428 bytes), loaded only on the quote request page. Nothing on the home page or categories; the “My quotes” pages and the detail of a quote add no stylesheet or script from the module. No library, no jQuery, no external resource: the theme styles the button and the pages.

Four visible settings, on the shared look of LNK modules: where to show the button (all products or quote only products), the default validity of a quote, the email that receives new requests (the shop's if left empty) and the attachment. Two rare settings are folded under “Advanced”. The module page, the customer pages and the emails read right to left in Arabic.

Theme contract lnk.quote.button/1, designed for the LNK B2B theme and usable by any theme:

• {hook h='displayLnkQuoteButton' product=$product context='product'} on the product page;
• {hook h='displayLnkQuoteButton' context='cart'} in the cart (nothing if the cart is empty);
• JavaScript events lnk:quote:added and lnk:quote:sent;
• templates of the button, the form, “My quotes” and the detail can be overridden in the theme.

Without the contract, the product page button shows in the native displayProductAdditionalInfo spot (classic, hummingbird, third party themes). The cart button needs the hook call in the cart template. A theme that places the button itself turns the native spot off in its theme.yml (LNK_QUOTE_NATIVE_HOOKS: 0), or from “Advanced”.

Each quote belongs to its shop: the customer only sees their own in the shop they are in, and the back office lists the quotes of the selected shops. Settings per shop, with the scope always shown; the “Quote only” switch applies to the selected shops. A deleted shop takes its quotes with it.

Package 1.9.0 was tried on PrestaShop 9.2 (classic theme): request, proposal, acceptance, order linked to the quote, expiry, quote only products. Package 1.1.0 was tried on PrestaShop 8.1. On 1.7.7, the add to cart button stays visible on a quote only product, and the server safeguard refuses the addition.