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QuoteWerks: Best Year Ever for Sales Quoting, Proposal Tool

  • Written by Joe Panettieri 1
  • December 16, 2011
Aspire Technologies Inc., which develops QuoteWerks sales proposal and quoting software for VARs and MSPs, is wrapping up its "best year ever," according to President John Lewe (pictured).

Aspire Technologies Inc., which develops QuoteWerks sales proposal and quoting software for VARs and MSPs, is wrapping up its “best year ever,” according to President John Lewe (pictured). Looking ahead to 2012, it sounds like QuoteWerks will place a larger spotlight on QuoteValet — an online quote delivery and acceptance platform that creates a personalized Web page for customers. Here’s the background.

MSPs and VARs use quoting and sales proposal software to help develop customer sales proposals. The market for such software has often lived below the media radar but it’s filled with potential options such as Autotask VARStreet, BigMachines, CNet Channel Online, Quosal and QuoteWerks (though no two options are exactly alike).

Key Moment

The channel spotlight for such software and online services grew brighter when Arnie Bellini, CEO of ConnectWise, discussed quoting software at length during the IT Nation conference in November. Roughly 1,600 channel partners and channel leaders were in the audience. ConnectWise Capital has an investment in Quosal, but Bellini also mentioned how third-party options like QuoteWerks integrate with ConnectWise’s PSA software.

  • Yes, the ConnectWise-Quosal combo could create more competition for QuoteWerks.
  • But ConnectWise is ultimately growing the market for such software, which could give QuoteWerks a long-term lift; roughly 25 percent of ConnectWise partners already run QuoteWerks, Lewe says.

Continued Growth

QuoteWerks’ Lewe sounds upbeat. He says November 2011 was the best month ever for QuoteWerks, and 2011 as a whole is the best year ever for the 12-person company, though he didn’t discuss specific financial results with MSPmentor.

Lewe positions QuoteWerks as “the other half of CRM. Everyone is always talking about CRM. On the flip side, your proposals and quotes, by definition, make you money. What do you do with your list of customers in your CRM platform? You sell them stuff.” That’s where QuoteWerks enters the picture.

Lewe began writing the software in 1993 when he was a reseller. At the time, he had accounts with Ingram Micro, Tech Data and other distributors. Lewe used to build Excel spreadsheets to try and organize his customer proposals. But ultimately he wanted a more organized, scalable way to proceed. Hence, QuoteWerks was born. Most recently, QuoteWerks has been busy integrating its platform with roughly a dozen different CRM packages.

Closer Customer Interactions

Now that the CRM integration work is largely done, QuoteWerks has been shifting its attention to QuoteValet. According to QuoteWerks:

  • Rather than attaching a PDF file to the quote and emailing it to your customer, QuoteValet will create a personalized web page to present the quote on quotevalet.com.
  • QuoteValet lets VARs and MSPs know when the customer has received and viewed the quote.
  • Customers can change quote options dynamically and ask questions through the customized quote page. Plus, customers can electronically accept and sign the quote.

I believe Quosal’s Order Porter solution offers somewhat similar capabilities, though I have not tried either solution.

The Bottom Line

Despite the recent economic turmoil, Lewe expects 2012 to resemble most years for QuoteWerks. “Every year we steadily grow,” said Lewe. “We’ve never had to downsize.” That’s pretty impressive for a two-decade-old software company that serves the channel.

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4 comments

  1. Avatar Steve Siggs December 16, 2011 @ 5:30 pm
    Reply

    Great news John! We’ve seen huge progress in QuoteWerks and QuoteValet during 2011 and can’t wait to see what you and the team have got in store for us during 2012. Keep up the fantastic work! QuoteWerks always has been and remains functionally head-and-shoulders above anything else out in the market – as resellers, it’s fantastic for us to be able to take the product to the market and be able to answer “yes” to so many “can QuoteWerks also do…” questions!

  2. Avatar Anthony Fernandez December 16, 2011 @ 5:43 pm
    Reply

    Hi Joe,

    Thank you for the great article!

    I would like to add that QuoteValet enables you to collect deposits, progress payments, balances, and even export payments to QuickBooks. Use your payment gateway – payment processing is available for over 80 gateways including QuickBooks Merchant Services, Authorize.net, PayPal, and Google Checkout.

    Happy Holidays!

  3. Avatar Justin Dupree December 16, 2011 @ 5:56 pm
    Reply

    Glad to see QuoteValet paid off like you thought it would, John!

  4. Avatar Joe Panettieri December 18, 2011 @ 5:41 pm
    Reply

    Steve@1: Thanks for reading. Good to see more MSPs and VARs discovering solutions to speed the sales process.

    Anthony@2: Thanks for the deeper info on QuoteValet. I concede I’m still getting up to speed on this particular market niche.

    Justin@3: Thanks for taking the time to read MSPmentor.

    -jp

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