Keep Leads Inside Magento
Buyers request commercial terms directly from the products they are already considering instead of leaving the store to start an email conversation.
Request for Quote
(m2-request-for-quote)
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Description
B2B commerce
The Negotiation Already Happens. It Just Happens Outside Magento.
A buyer needs forty units but expects a better price. In a typical Magento Open Source project, that request immediately leaves the commerce platform.
A contact form becomes an email. The email becomes a spreadsheet. Someone approves a discount. Someone else manually creates an order. The final price depends on which message somebody copied from the thread.
Quote Request keeps that commercial workflow inside Magento. Products, quantities, negotiated prices, approvals and the resulting checkout remain part of one connected process.
Why Quote Request
Turn B2B Price Requests Into a Controlled Sales Process
Reduce Manual Order Entry
An accepted quote becomes a Magento checkout using the negotiated products, quantities and prices instead of requiring a sales employee to recreate the order.
Protect Negotiated Margins
Accepted quote prices cannot then be stacked with coupons, cart-price rules or currency switching to discount an already negotiated offer again.
Create an Auditable Workflow
Keep the quote, negotiated prices, approvals and resulting order connected inside the commerce platform instead of spreading commercial decisions across inboxes and spreadsheets.
Magento request for quote workflow
From Product Page to Negotiated Order
01 · Request
Build a Quote Cart
Buyers add products to a dedicated quote cart directly from the catalog. The quote cart exists independently from the normal shopping cart, so a customer can negotiate one purchase while buying something else normally.
02 · Negotiate
Price Line by Line
Sales teams work on the quote's dedicated Magento Admin screen and can set the proposed price for individual lines before sending the commercial offer.
03 · Accept
Lock the Agreement
Once the quote is settled, its commercial terms are protected from silent re-pricing. The accepted quote becomes the source of truth for checkout.
04 · Order
Checkout at the Agreed Price
Magento builds a real cart using the negotiated prices and protects it against coupons, cart rules and currency changes that would alter the accepted agreement.
Magento B2B quotation management
The Commercial Controls Around the Quote Matter as Much as the Form
Independent Quote Cart
Quote products do not interfere with the customer's normal shopping cart. Both workflows can exist simultaneously.
Line-Level Negotiated Prices
Set commercial pricing individually for quote items rather than applying a generic percentage to the entire request.
Locked Accepted Quotes
Once a quote reaches a settled state, its commercial terms cannot be quietly modified and sent to checkout as though nothing changed.
Protected Checkout
Coupons, cart-price rules and currency switching are rejected for the negotiated cart so discounts cannot accidentally stack on top of the accepted price.
Catalog Revalidation
Before the quote becomes an order, Magento verifies that the accepted products are still valid and available, including the specific variant selected from a configurable product.
Reliable Notifications
Quote transition emails are queued in the same database transaction as the underlying state change, then delivered asynchronously with retry and backoff. A temporary mail outage does not undo the quote decision.
Modular B2B workflow
Add the B2B Capabilities Your Project Actually Needs
The core quotation workflow does not require every optional capability to be installed. Guest quoting, approval workflows, hide-price behaviour, Hyvä and APIs are separate modules, allowing agencies to keep the implementation aligned with the actual project.
Guest Quote Requests
Optionally allow visitors without customer accounts to submit quote requests. Guests return through a tokenized email link and can create a full account later in the sales process.
Discount Approval Workflow
Define a discount threshold above which the proposal requires an additional approval before it can be sent to the buyer.
Approval and quote status changes are recorded together, creating a more controlled workflow for sales teams with pricing authority limits.
Hide Price
Add optional hide-price behaviour for catalogs where selected products are sold through quotation rather than public pricing.
Quote integrity
Where Magento Quote Workflows Usually Break
Requesting a quote is easy. The harder engineering starts after the proposal has been made — when prices must stay unchanged, products can become unavailable, multiple systems retry requests and commercial approvals need to remain consistent.
01
A Coupon Hits the Negotiated Price
Without protection: an already discounted quote gets discounted again.
Accepted quote carts reject coupons, cart-price rules and currency switching so the price agreed during negotiation remains the price used for the order.
02
The Product Changes After Acceptance
Without validation: an old quote becomes a bad order.
Products are checked against the accepted quote snapshot before loading the negotiated cart. Disabled, deleted or unavailable items cause the quote load to fail rather than silently continuing.
03
A Configurable Variant Goes Out of Stock
Checking only the parent product is not enough.
Revalidation includes the specific configurable variant selected in the quote, ensuring the accepted combination is still available before checkout.
04
The Mail Server Goes Down
A quote status must not depend on SMTP availability.
Notifications are recorded in the same database transaction as the quote state change and sent later using cron with retries and backoff. Delivery can be delayed without losing the underlying business event.
05
An API Request Is Retried
Network retries should not repeat a commercial action.
API operations support idempotency keys, allowing integrations to safely retry requests without applying the same transition twice.
06
Two Clients Update the Same Quote
The last write should not silently overwrite a newer decision.
REST and GraphQL operations carry an expected quote version, giving API clients a way to detect that the quote changed before their request was applied.
A robust Magento request-for-quote extension is therefore not just a second cart. It is a controlled transition from request → negotiation → acceptance → checkout with protection around the commercial state at every stage.
Modern Magento storefronts
Hyvä, REST and GraphQL Without Rebuilding the Quote Engine
Optional frontend and API modules use the same quotation workflow rather than implementing separate business logic per channel.
Hyvä
Dedicated Hyvä templates are delivered as their own module, allowing Hyvä projects to use the same quotation backend without relying on Luma templates.
REST
REST endpoints expose quotation workflows for external storefronts and integrations, including concurrency and retry safeguards through expected versions and idempotency keys.
GraphQL
GraphQL queries and mutations allow PWA and headless implementations to work with the quote lifecycle using the same core business rules as Magento storefronts.
Built for agencies
Add B2B Quoting Without Building a Second Commerce Platform
Request-for-quote projects often start as “just add a form” and grow into pricing, approvals, customer workflows, APIs and checkout overrides.
Quote Request packages those responsibilities into focused modules so agencies can reuse a defined architecture instead of rebuilding the same B2B negotiation flow independently for every merchant.
Modular Installation
Keep guest quoting, approvals, hide-price, Hyvä and API capabilities separate from the core where they are not needed.
Upgrade-Oriented Architecture
Core quotation functionality remains independent from optional storefront and API modules, reducing unnecessary coupling across different project requirements.
API-Safe Retries
Idempotency keys and expected versions provide integrations with controls that become important once quoting is connected to an ERP, PWA or external B2B system.
Reliable Side Effects
Email delivery is decoupled from quote transitions, so an external mail failure does not roll back the business state.
Explicit Commercial Rules
Negotiated-price protection and quote revalidation live in the quote workflow rather than depending on sales staff remembering manual procedures.
Testable B2B Workflow
Storefront, Magento Admin and guest-order journeys are covered through automated end-to-end tests in addition to unit and integration suites.
Magento request for quote comparison
qoliber Quote Request vs Typical Magento Quote Extensions
Magento has several request-for-quote solutions. The visible feature — adding products to a quote — is only the beginning. The larger differences are how the accepted commercial terms survive the transition into checkout and how safely the workflow behaves under retries, catalog changes and integrations.
| Capability | qoliber Quote Request | Competing modules |
|---|---|---|
| Separate quote cart | Independent from normal shopping cart | Common capability; implementation varies |
| Line-level negotiation | Admin price per quote line | Varies by product |
| Accepted-price protection | Coupons, cart rules and currency switching blocked | Rarely documented publicly |
| Catalog revalidation | Products and configurable variants rechecked before order | Implementation varies |
| Guest quote requests | Optional module with tokenized return link | Common in some products |
| Discount approval | Threshold-based approval module | Varies by vendor |
| Email reliability | Transactional queue with retry and backoff | Usually not publicly documented |
| REST retry safety | Expected version + idempotency key | Rarely documented publicly |
| GraphQL | Optional queries and mutations | Support varies |
| Hyvä | Dedicated optional module | Support varies |
| Published engineering tests | 19 E2E + 243 unit + integration suites | Usually not published |
“Typical Magento Quote Extension” describes common publicly visible characteristics of Magento quotation products rather than any individual vendor. Capabilities and implementations vary. Where functionality is described as rarely documented, this does not mean no competing product provides it.
Engineering quality
Verified, Not Asserted
19
Playwright end-to-end tests
243
unit tests
L8
PHPStan static analysis
12
Playwright spec files
End-to-end coverage includes storefront, Magento Admin and guest quotation journeys through to an actual placed order. PHPUnit integration suites exercise the modules inside Magento, while static gates include PHPStan level 8 and PHPCS against Magento and PSR-12 standards.
Technical specifications
Built for Modern Magento & Mage-OS B2B Projects
Platform
Magento Open Source and Mage-OS 2.4.6+.
PHP
8.1 – 8.5.
Storefront
Standard Magento frontend plus optional dedicated Hyvä module.
Headless
Optional REST and GraphQL modules.
In the box
- Dedicated quote cart independent from the normal shopping cart
- Add products to quote from Magento catalog pages
- Magento Admin quotation management
- Line-level negotiated pricing
- Accepted quote locking
- Accepted quote to Magento cart conversion
- Coupon protection on negotiated carts
- Cart-price-rule protection
- Currency-switching protection
- Product and configurable-variant revalidation before checkout
- Transactionally queued email notifications
- Email retry and backoff
- Optional guest quote requests
- Tokenized guest return links
- Optional discount approval workflow
- Configurable approval threshold
- Optional hide-price module
- Optional Hyvä module
- Optional REST API
- Optional GraphQL API
- API idempotency keys
- Expected-version concurrency protection
Magento Quote Request FAQ
Questions
Can Magento customers request a quote instead of placing an order?
Yes. Customers can add products to a dedicated quote cart and submit a request for commercial pricing without changing their normal shopping cart.
Can sales teams negotiate the price of individual quote items?
Yes. The Magento Admin quote screen allows negotiated pricing to be set line by line before the proposal is sent to the buyer.
What happens after the customer accepts a Magento quote?
The accepted quote is converted into a real Magento shopping cart using the negotiated products, quantities and prices. The resulting cart is protected against discounts or currency changes that would alter the commercial agreement.
Can coupons be applied to an accepted quote?
No. Quote-based carts reject coupons and cart-price rules because the item prices have already been commercially negotiated.
What happens if a product goes out of stock after a quote is accepted?
Products are revalidated before the accepted quote is loaded for checkout. If an item has been disabled, deleted or is no longer available, the quote cannot silently become an invalid order. Configurable-product validation includes the specific variant selected in the quote.
Can guests request a quote?
Yes, through the optional guest quotation module. Guest quoting is disabled by default. When enabled, the buyer can return to the quote using a tokenized link sent by email and create a full customer account later.
Can large discounts require approval?
Yes. The optional approval workflow lets the merchant define a discount threshold. Quotes exceeding it require additional approval before the proposal can be sent.
Does Quote Request support Hyvä?
Yes. Hyvä templates are available as an optional dedicated module, allowing Hyvä storefront projects to use the same quotation engine.
Does Quote Request support headless Magento?
REST and GraphQL are available as optional modules. The APIs support quote operations with expected-version and idempotency controls designed to make retries and concurrent integrations safer.
What happens if email delivery fails?
Quote notifications are queued transactionally with the business event and sent asynchronously. Temporary mail failure therefore delays the message rather than rolling back or losing the quote transition, and failed sends can be retried.
Is Quote Request tested?
The supplied engineering suite includes 19 Playwright end-to-end tests across 12 spec files, 243 unit tests, Magento integration coverage and PHPStan level 8, together with Magento and PSR-12 coding-standard checks.
B2B quoting inside Magento
Bring the Negotiation Back Into Magento
Give B2B buyers a direct path from product discovery to commercial negotiation, approval and checkout — while keeping the accepted price, catalog validation and resulting order inside one Magento workflow.