Proposals for makers, workshops & studios

Proposals your clients can actually approve

Say goodbye to PDF quotes that vanish into inboxes. QuoteCarta turns a proposal into stages your client can see, approve, and sign. One link, no account needed.

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PROPOSAL P-2026-0031

Bespoke oak kitchen

Prepared for Anna & Tom Whitfield
Total€28,650.00
Est. completion23 Sep 2026
Progress2 of 7 stages

Site measurement

Completed 12 Aug

Materials approval

€4,800.00 · work finished 12 Aug
Your approval needed

Production

€18,400.00 · projected 23 Sep
Not yet reached
Why QuoteCarta

A proposal is a project, not a PDF

Bespoke work gets approved in steps: brief, drawings, site visit, moodboard, sign-off. QuoteCarta is built around that reality, so nothing stalls in silence.

The one thing that matters

Your client always knows whose move it is

Every stage shows its state at arm's length: done, in progress on your side, or waiting on the client, highlighted so it cannot be missed. When they act, the next stage unlocks by itself.

Try the client portal Live demo, no sign-up. Approve a stage, sign it, watch the next one unlock.

Materials approval

Waiting on the client since Tuesday

Production starts

Unlocks on approval · lead time 30 days
And it speaks your client's language English · Polski · Deutsch · Français · Español · Italiano · Português · Suomi · Dansk

Stage workflows

Linear or branching: one stage can unlock two, and two can gate one. You decide the path.

Visual flow editor

Draw the sequence by connecting stages on a canvas. No configuration screens.

E-signature built in

Approval means signing, drawn on screen or on a phone via QR code. Stored with the record.

Refuse with a reason

Clients can request changes instead of approving. The reason lands in your inbox and the thread.

Honest dates

Per-stage lead times project the completion date, and it visibly slides while a client sits on an approval.

Files on every stage

Drawings, offers, photos: attach PDFs, spreadsheets and images where they belong.

Messages on the record

One thread per proposal, shared with the client. No more decisions buried in WhatsApp.

Full history

Every change, approval, and signature: who, what, when. An audit trail you can stand behind.

Duplicate in one click

Repeat projects share a shape. Clone a proposal with its stages and flow, and start from there.

Clients & contacts

A lightweight client book with contacts, notes and search. Proposals attach to real records.

Roles & permissions

Admins, managers, users, each with view or manage access per area. People see what they should.

Know the moment

An email lands when a client approves or refuses, sent instantly, not queued for later.

Sent from your address

Connect your own SMTP and every proposal email goes out from your domain, in your name. Replies land with whoever runs the proposal.

One-off or repeating

A stage can bill once, monthly, or every few months. The total shows the split, to you and to the client.

Private by design

Every link is unguessable, the client confirms their email, and you can require an access code. No client accounts, nothing indexed.

The flow editor

Draw the workflow, don't configure it

Connect stages with your mouse. Splits and joins come free: finish the survey and the moodboard in parallel, and production waits for both.

Site measurementSettled
Materials approvalAwaiting client
ProductionNot reached
Signed, sealed, recorded

Approval means a signature, not a shrug

Clients sign on screen, or scan a QR code and sign on their phone while the desktop updates itself. The signature is stored with the stage and shown in the history, forever.

Try the client portal Sign a stage yourself on the demo. Nothing is saved.
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Pricing

Everything you need to win the work, free

The full product on every plan: stages, portal, signatures, messages, history. Start free, upgrade when your volume or brand asks for it.

Stage-by-stage proposals
Visual flow editor
Client portal, no client accounts
E-signatures with QR hand-off
Refuse with reason
Approval & refusal emails
Files on every stage
Shared message thread
Full history & audit trail
Lead-time date projection
Clients & contacts book
Roles & permissions
Proposal duplication
API access
Team accounts with roles
Free includes 100 proposals and 1 GB file storage
Start free

Or have us set it up with you

Tell us about your workshop and we set up your account: branding, your stages and workflow, your team, and your first proposal ready to send. One call, done together.

€280One-time
QuoteCarta Pro

Make it yours, and never count proposals again

For studios and workshops where the proposal IS the brand and the volume is the business.

From €120per month

Custom branding

Your logo and identity on the portal and every email. Clients see you, not us.

Custom subdomain

Proposals live at yourstudio.quotecarta.com, a link that looks like it belongs to you.

Unlimited proposals

No counter, no ceiling. Send as much work out as you can win.

10 GB file storage

Room for drawings, offers and photos. Additional storage available on request.

Tell us about your workshop or studio, and we'll set Pro up with you.

Questions & answers

Before you ask

Do my clients need an account?

No. You share one link; the client confirms the email address the proposal was sent to (plus an access code if you switch that on) and they're in. No passwords, no sign-up.

Can I send proposals in my client's language?

Yes. Each proposal has its own language, and the client portal, buttons, statuses and emails follow it. QuoteCarta speaks English, Polish, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Finnish and Danish. Your own text, stage names and descriptions, stays exactly as you wrote it.

Do proposal emails come from my email address?

They can, entirely. By default QuoteCarta sends proposal emails for you and shows your company name. Connect your own SMTP server in Settings and every proposal email goes out from your own address, through your own server, with replies going to the person who runs the proposal.

What counts as a proposal on the free plan?

Each proposal you create counts once, with all its stages, files, messages and history included. The free plan covers your first 100.

Are the signatures legally meaningful?

Every approval stores the drawn signature together with who gave it, from which address, and when. A full audit trail. Whether that satisfies your contracts is between you and your legal advisor, but the record is there.

What if I need more than 10 GB on Pro?

Additional storage is available on request. Mention it when you contact us and we'll size it to your work.

Send a proposal your client can say yes to

Free for your first 100 proposals. And guess what? Your client will know exactly whose move it is.

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