Quote Tool Design Thoughts
I have a need for a unique quote tool, and I am seeking some design methods with pros/cons. My initial design draft is something like this – I have a Quote table form with some buttons to add a s...
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What are you selling?
There is some sort of architecture about your line items on the quote that should fall out.
Products Table?
Service Table?
Maybe an Item Master with Vendors above that?
500 fields sounds like a lot. Do you first need a Product Configurator to build a BOM which then goes on the proposal? Perhaps a table of Sub Assemblies that then go to the Product and then the proposal.
Each product is configurable, much in the same way one might buy a couch - length, fabric, patterns, color, sleeper sofa or not, on and on...... After each product configuration, I end up with a unique product ID XX-COUCH-2534 as the line item PN.