For small companies and sole proprietors

Quoting software for small business

ExtraflowDoc gives a one-truck company the same quote a twenty-truck company sends: a cover page, itemized pricing, photos and a signature — built in the browser, billed per company instead of per user, and free for the first five documents of the month.

  • Quotes
  • Estimates
  • Proposals
  • Invoices
  • Contracts
  • Work orders
  • Purchase orders
  • Packing slips

Free plan available. No card needed. Or build a quote in the browser before you decide anything at all.

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Free plan, no cardUnlimited users on every planNothing to install

Built for how few of you there are

What a small business actually needs from quoting software

You are the one who measures the job, the one who runs the office and the one taking calls from the truck. The question is not which tool has the deepest features, but which one a company your size can have running this week and still afford next year.

A free plan you can genuinely work on

The free plan is ${documentPlans[0].documentsPerMonth} documents a month per company, with no card and no trial countdown. For a sole proprietor quoting one or two jobs a week that is the whole job rather than a sample — and when a busy month runs past it, the first paid plan is ${formatCad(documentPlans[1].monthlyPrice)} for ${documentPlans[1].documentsPerMonth}.

You pay per company, so adding people costs nothing

Every plan includes unlimited users. Your spouse who keeps the books, the apprentice who photographs the site, the friend who covers the phone in July — they can all be on it without the bill moving. Per-user pricing penalizes exactly the growth a small company is trying to have.

Nothing to install, and no CRM required to start

The editor opens in a browser tab — that is what the «Try it now» button above does. You do not have to buy a CRM first, migrate anything or involve IT, because there is no IT. If you already run Pipedrive or monday.com it installs in there too, but that is a decision for later.

Send something that does not look like a text message

A cover page with your logo, itemized pricing, photos of the work and a signature block — the document the customer sets beside the bigger company's. Most of the quotes a small business loses are lost on presentation rather than price, and that is the cheapest part to fix.

You are the back office too, so nothing gets retyped

A won quote becomes the invoice in one click with every line carried across, and those same lines raise the materials order. Nobody is going to retype it for you at seven in the evening, which is when a small company's paperwork actually gets done.

Start from a template and your own price list

Save a finished document as a template so the next quote opens half written, and keep materials and labour rates in the catalogue to search instead of remember. The second quote ought to take a tenth of the time the first one did; if it does not, the tool has not paid for itself.

Worked example

Anatomy of a real one-truck company's quote

There is no document in the library labelled «small business», because nearly all of them are. This is a real residential painting quote — a trade where the same person often prices, paints and invoices — and the gallery covers five of its six pages. Read it as the smallest kind of company sending the most ordinary kind of quote.

Pages 1 and 2 — a cover and an «about us», because nobody has heard of you

A cover page with your own image, then quote number, issue and expiry dates, both parties' details — and a section introducing yourself. That is the block a large company does not need and a small one cannot do without. The customer has three quotes and has never heard of any of the three; a paragraph about who is actually showing up does work a logo alone cannot.

Page 3 — labour by room, and three kinds of discount in one table

The living room at 300 sq.ft and the kitchen at 200 sq.ft both run at $15.00 with 10 % off, giving $4,050.00 and $2,700.00. The bedroom runs at $30.00 but with a flat $1,000.00 off, giving $2,000.00. Then cleanup at a flat $300.00, trim at 450 ft × $2.00 and ceilings at 1,000 sq.ft × $10.00. One percentage discount, one amount discount and three different units, all in a table that keeps totalling itself — which is exactly what a spreadsheet stops doing the moment you try it.

Page 3, read again — where the money honestly sits

Labour comes to $19,950.00. Paint and materials come to $1,200.00. Six per cent of this quote is materials; the rest is one person's time, and the heaviest line is the ceilings at $10,000.00 — more than the three rooms combined. That is the arithmetic of almost every small service business, and it is why a tool that saves you an evening of paperwork a week is not a luxury purchase. The 8 % tax on $21,150.00 takes the total to $22,842.00.

What the template fills in and what it leaves to you

Let us be straight about this: it is a template, not a finished piece of work. The painting section still carries requests in square brackets — brand and finish, the colours per room — waiting on your answers. That is deliberate and worth understanding before you send one. Structure, arithmetic, tax handling and terms are already decided for you; the four or five judgements only you can make stay flagged, so you do not accidentally send a quote with a blank where the colour should be.

Pages 4 and 5 — the room photos, then the terms that protect you most

A photo page showing each room with the quoted finish described, then warranty and terms covering payment, scope changes and cancellation. For a company with no legal department, the terms page is the most valuable in the document: the wording on changes is what turns «while you're here, could you do the hallway?» into priced change work rather than a given-away afternoon.

And every other example in the library is a small business too

The roofer, the landscaper, the flooring installer, the HVAC contractor, the equipment rental yard — those are the documents on this site, and none of them came from a large corporation. The painting quote is not a special small-business edition of the product; it is simply what the product produces. Start from whichever sits closest to your trade rather than from a blank page.

See the full painting quote example, page by page

See the transformation

Build it in the editor, send a PDF that looks like a bigger company's

Blocks, line items and photos on the left; the finished document your customer opens on the right. Drag the handle to compare.

The same quote rendered as a finished, downloadable PDF in the ExtraflowDoc preview panel
A quote open in the ExtraflowDoc editor, with line-item pricing and the block controls visible
ExtraflowDoc EditorPDF Preview

Customer stories

From small companies already sending quotes with this

“Best ROI of any software we've purchased. Paid for itself in the first week.”

David Thompson, RealQuality Roofing

“Game changer for our construction business. Complex estimates that used to take hours now take 10 minutes.”

Michael Chen, BuildTech Construction

“Very intuitive. Our team was creating professional proposals on day one with zero training.”

Amanda Wilson, Signature Cabinetry

Integrations

If you already have a CRM, it lives inside it

Plenty of small companies have no CRM at all, and the editor works on its own. If you do have one, ExtraflowDoc installs into it so the quote starts where the customer record already is.

Quotes in Pipedrive

Open ExtraflowDoc from inside the deal. Customer details fill themselves in, your products come from the Pipedrive catalogue with prices and photos, and the signed PDF stays on the deal — so the record of what you quoted outlives the notebook it would otherwise end up in.

Quotes in monday.com

If your jobs already live on a monday.com board, build the quote from the item. Any column you maintain — dates, numbers, dropdowns — can populate the document, and the finished quote stays on the job rather than in your downloads folder.

Pricing

The plan is about the company, not about how many of you there are

Start on the free plan and move up only when your document count asks for it. Every tier includes unlimited users, so going from one person to four changes nothing on the bill.

Free plan

$0.00/month

Billed monthly. Unlimited users included.

5 documents/month per company

  • Estimates
  • Quotes
  • Proposals
  • Invoices
  • Agreements
  • Purchase Orders
  • Delivery Notes
  • Work Orders
  • Custom Documents
  • Templates
  • Integration with Pipedrive
  • Integration with monday.com
  • E-Signatures
  • CPQ
  • Tiered Pricing
  • Volume Discounts
  • Multiple Taxes
  • Pricing Engine for line items (Price, Price + Markup, Price + Profit Margin)

Basic plan

$20.69/month

Billed monthly. Unlimited users included.

20 documents/month per company

  • Estimates
  • Quotes
  • Proposals
  • Invoices
  • Agreements
  • Purchase Orders
  • Delivery Notes
  • Work Orders
  • Custom Documents
  • Templates
  • Integration with Pipedrive
  • Integration with monday.com
  • E-Signatures
  • CPQ
  • Tiered Pricing
  • Volume Discounts
  • Multiple Taxes
  • Pricing Engine for line items (Price, Price + Markup, Price + Profit Margin)

Standard plan

$34.49/month

Billed monthly. Unlimited users included.

35 documents/month per company

  • Estimates
  • Quotes
  • Proposals
  • Invoices
  • Agreements
  • Purchase Orders
  • Delivery Notes
  • Work Orders
  • Custom Documents
  • Templates
  • Integration with Pipedrive
  • Integration with monday.com
  • E-Signatures
  • CPQ
  • Tiered Pricing
  • Volume Discounts
  • Multiple Taxes
  • Pricing Engine for line items (Price, Price + Markup, Price + Profit Margin)

See all pricing plans, up to 600 documents/month

FAQ

Quoting software for small business: frequently asked questions

Including what it does not do, so you know what else you will need.

What is quoting software for small business?

It is software that turns a job you have already priced out into a document the customer can accept: itemized lines, photos, terms and a signature, exported as a PDF. For a small company the useful definition is narrower than the feature list — it is whatever gets a professional-looking quote out on the day of the walkthrough, with no spreadsheet, no designer and no evening lost.

Is there really a free plan or is it a trial?

A free plan, not a trial. It covers 5 documents a month per company with unlimited users, no card and no clock running down. A company quoting one or two jobs a week fits inside it indefinitely. The limit is documents a month, so it is your volume that eventually moves you up rather than a date.

What does it cost once I outgrow the free plan?

Paid plans start at $20.69/month for 20 documents and rise with volume from there — $34.49 for 35, and so on. You buy capacity in documents rather than seats or features, so the only question is how many quotes you send in a month.

Do I pay per user?

No. Every plan includes unlimited users, so the bill does not change when your spouse starts invoicing or you take on an apprentice. That is the biggest difference from most tools aimed at this market, where a second login is the start of a per-seat line that grows with your headcount.

Do I need a CRM, or can I use this on its own?

You can use it on its own. The «Try it now» button opens the editor in a browser tab — no CRM, no install, no migration. The Pipedrive and monday.com integrations exist for companies already running one of those and put the editor inside the deal or board item. Plenty of small companies never need that and use only the editor.

Is there anything to install, and how long does a quote take?

Nothing to install; it runs in the browser on a laptop, tablet or phone. The honest answer on time is that your first document takes as long as it was going to anyway, because you are deciding what goes in it — the saving starts on the second, when you open the first as a template and change only what differs.

Can I look professional without hiring a designer?

That is a good deal of the point. Cover pages, your logo and colours, photo galleries, structured pricing tables and a signature block are blocks you insert, and the example documents on this site are the output rather than mock-ups. A customer comparing you with a bigger company sees a comparable document, which is the cheapest competitive advantage available to a company your size.

Can I send it from the customer's kitchen table?

Yes. It runs in the browser on a phone or tablet, so you can build or amend the quote in front of them and ask for the signature before you leave. Signatures carry email verification, a timestamp and an audit trail, and you can see when the document is opened — more than you learn from a quote sent as a photo in a text.

Can the quote become an invoice?

Yes, in one click and with every line carried across. The same lines also raise the materials order. In a company where the person quoting is the person invoicing, this is where the hours genuinely come back — nothing is retyped, and the invoice cannot quietly drift from what the customer approved.

Is this accounting software? Will it do my bookkeeping or my tax filing?

No. ExtraflowDoc does no bookkeeping, connects no bank accounts, runs no payroll, profit and loss, GST/HST or tax filings, and does not integrate directly with accounting packages — the native integrations are Pipedrive and monday.com. It produces the documents; your accountant or your accounting software still does the sums. If you want one tool for both, this is not it.

Can customers pay through it? Does it chase late payers?

No to both. There is no card payment, no payment link and no bank transfer built into the document, and nothing that sends reminders or escalates an overdue invoice. You can put your payment details and terms on the invoice — the example documents do — but collecting and chasing stay where they are today.

Which document should I send: an estimate, a quote or a proposal?

Briefly: an estimate is a reasoned figure you can revise, a quote is a firm price you will stand behind, and a proposal argues for the work before it shows the price. All three are document types from the same editor, so the practical answer is to look at the examples — the flooring estimate, the painting quote and the roofing proposal are all on this site — and copy whichever matches the conversation you are actually having.

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