The ability to generate quotes when working within business-to-business environments can be an important feature of your commerce site. Core Commerce provides a customizable framework that enables integration with third-party quoting engines.
This framework enables you to configure information exchanges between systems, creating quoting functionality that might:
Let customers convert an existing shopping cart into a request for a quote
Establish quote parameters, such as quote expiration dates
Set states on a cart or order that reflects the status of the quote
Permit an agent to view active or pending quotes, as well as quote histories
Allow a customer to reject or accept a received quote
Convert accepted quote information into an order and complete the checkout process
Note that this framework provides the tools that allow you to integrate Core Commerce with a third-party quoting system; it does not provide quote generation functionality.
