Every plumbing RFQ answered same day. Every line at your price levels.
Emails, PDFs, faxes, voicemails, and WhatsApp become ERP-ready quotes in minutes. Your counter team approves every line in one queue instead of retyping line items until 8 at night.
Quoting.ai Supply is AI quote and order entry for plumbing and PVF distributors. It reads RFQs from email, PDF, WhatsApp, fax, and voicemail, matches line items to your catalog with customer-specific price levels applied, and writes the quote into your ERP. DDI Inform is live today. A human approves every quote in an inbox-style queue, and setup is two steps: connect your inbox, upload inventory.
The desk this is built for
- At plumbing houses we talk to, one inside salesperson can be doing 100 quotes a day by hand and still working three hours past close to hit tomorrow's cutoff.
- Requests arrive as fixture schedules in PDFs, texted photos of a takeoff sheet, and voicemails, some of them in Yiddish. Every one gets retyped line by line.
- Distributors we talk to decline 30 to 50 percent of inbound RFQs simply because the desk is out of capacity. That is revenue turned away, not lost to a competitor's price.
How does Quoting.ai handle plumbing RFQs?
A fixture schedule PDF, a two-line email asking for 40 sticks of 2 inch copper, and a voicemail from a plumber on a job site all land in the same place: your quotes inbox. The system reads each one, splits it into line items, and matches every item to your catalog, including size, schedule, material, and connection type variants.
Your customer-specific price levels apply automatically. The quote that comes out is the quote your senior counter person would have written, ready in your ERP, waiting for a human yes.
What about voicemails and WhatsApp orders?
Plumbing runs on the phone. Voice notes, voicemails, and WhatsApp messages become structured line items in the same approval queue as email, so nothing lives only in someone's ear or phone. Multilingual intake covers English, Spanish, Hebrew, and Yiddish voice notes, which matters in the New York metro trade.
Does it write into DDI Inform?
Yes. DDI Inform (Advantive) is our first live ERP integration, running in production with a plumbing distributor today. Quotes and orders write back as real ERP documents with your item numbers and price levels, not a spreadsheet on the side. See the DDI Inform integration page for exactly what syncs.
Who checks the AI's work?
Your team does, in an approval inbox built for speed. We measure the Human Edit Rate, the percentage of AI-drafted lines your people correct, and show it to you. You choose the rollout mode: Assist drafts everything for review, Guarded auto-sends only what clears your rules, Autopilot handles the routine tail. You move down that road at your own pace.
Questions from desks like yours
Will it misclassify a purchase order as a quote request?
Incoming messages are classified as RFQ, purchase order, follow-up, or noise before anything else happens. Anything ambiguous is flagged for a human instead of guessed at. A catch-all address like quotes@yourcompany.com keeps the intake clean.
Our pricing is per-customer and complicated. Can it cope?
That is the core of the product. Your price levels, contract pricing, and customer-specific rules are applied from your ERP data. If a price cannot be resolved confidently, the line is flagged rather than guessed.
How long does setup take?
Two steps you can do today: connect your inbox (Gmail, Outlook, or WhatsApp) and upload your inventory file. Then you book a kickoff call and a human gets you live, included with every plan. ERP integration is set up with you separately.
What if the AI gets a quote wrong?
No quote leaves without approval unless you have explicitly enabled Autopilot for that class of quote. Every correction your team makes is tracked in the Human Edit Rate, so you see accuracy improving before you loosen the reins.
See it on your own RFQs
Connect your inbox, upload inventory, book the kickoff call. Two steps and a human, that is the whole setup.