If you’re an e-commerce or a service-based website, there might be a chance that you may not always be able to list the price. At a time like this, a request to quote button comes in handy.
In this tutorial, we will guide you through the steps to add a ‘request a quote’ button for your WooCommerce store.
Before we begin to guide you let us first see what kind of websites need the request a quote button.
Need for Request a Quote Button
There might be some website where listing the price for the product or service offered might vary from customer to customer.
For instance, if you are a store selling custom-made clothing you can list the types and prices of the fabrics available. However, every customer will require a different size of dress, the style of stitching and design will vary, and so on. That is to say, the amount of fabric and other decorative materials used will be different, and thus, the prices will be different based on the customer’s requirements.
Similarly, if you’re a web design company or a custom furniture store then again, your prices will vary depending on your customer’s requirements.
At a time like this, customers may get in touch with you via chat, email or telephone. Although this is a feasible option, as your business continues to grow, separating each customer from another might be difficult and might even result in the interchanging of orders.
To avoid such a scenario adding a ‘request a quote’ button is the best way ahead. This way whenever a customer requests your quote their information is stored in a different section and can help avoid mix-ups.
Ways to Add a Request a Quote Button
There are multiple ways to add a ‘request a quote’ button to your WooCommerce store. Here are some of the ways:
- WPForms Plugin
WPForms is one of the best contact form plugins available for your e-commerce website. There are several ready-to-use templates available, and each template has a unique form.
One of the templates is for a Request a Quote form. By using this template, you can easily build your form and customize it as per your requirements.
WPForms plugin comes pre-installed with our WooCommerce Hosting, and you can easily upgrade to the pro version if need be. This is a freemium plugin.
- Request a Quote for WooCommerce
Request a Quote for WooCommerce is an official WooCommerce extension that allows you to customize your request a quote button, the submission messages, assign quote status, converting quote into order, and more.
This extension is highly productive as it allows you to set different price ranges depending on the customer’s requirements. This is a premium plugin.
- YITH WooCommerce Request a Quote
With the YITH WooCommerce Request a Quote plugin, you can easily hide the price of your product or the Add to cart option and only display the Request a quote button.
For instance, if you offer services like printing, upscaling clothes using old clothes, etc. Wherein the price could vary from customer to customer – then you can request the customer to send in their request and then you can quote the price to them. Once your quote is ready, the plugin then automatically sends an email to your customer with all the details.
The YITH WooCommerce Request a Quote plugin can easily be managed through your WordPress dashboard. This is a freemium plugin.
How to Add a ‘Request a Quote’ Button
Creating a request quote button is rather easy, and it doesn’t require you to have any coding knowledge at all. Now that we’ve seen the top 3 plugins you can use to add the request a quote button. For this tutorial, we’ll be installing the YITH WooCommerce Request a Quote plugin.
Let us now move on to understanding how to go about adding it to our WooCommerce website.
Step 1: Log in to your Bluehost dashboard, and you’ll be redirected to the Homepage of your dashboard
Step 2: Click on ‘Log into WordPress’ to access your WooCommerce store’s backend
Step 3: Install the ‘request a quote’ plugin of your choice
If you’re new and confused about how to add a plugin to your website, follow the steps mentioned in our WordPress plugins installation tutorial
For your reference, this is how the plugin would look like in the plugin’s repository
Step 4: After you’ve installed and activated the plugin, it is time to configure it. You will find the YITH label on the left-hand sidebar of your WordPress dashboard, hover your mouse over it and click on ‘Request a Quote’
Step 5: The following window will be displayed. Go the ‘General Options’ tab and make changes to your ‘request a quote’ button viz. Name, colour, size, where it should be placed, and so on. Once done, click on the ‘Save Options’ button
Step 6: Next, switch to the ‘Request Quote Page’ tab and make the changes required on the Request Quote page and click on the ‘Save Options’ button
We’re now done with setting up our ‘request a quote’ button. Let us move on to how to add a product to display the ‘request a quote’ button
Step 7: On the left-hand sidebar go to ‘Products’ and click on ‘All Products’. Here you will be able to see the list of products on your WooCommerce store, as well as add new products 
Step 8: To add a new product to your website, click on ’Add New’
Step 9: Now, add the Title of your product, the Description, Product Image, SEO elements, categories, and so on
Note: Keep the price section empty in your ’Product Data’ section
After you’re done adding data, click on ‘Publish’ just like a regular WordPress post
Step 10: Now, load your WooCommerce Store, you can now see the new product added. If a customer wants to request a quote, they will click on the product of their choice
A new page will open here since the price isn’t added in the backend the customer won’t be able to see the price and the ’Add to cart’ button – instead the ’Request a Quote’ button will be visible
If the customer clicks on the ’Request to Quote’ button a new page loads with a form. Here the customer needs to add in the details required and click on ’Send Your Request’
As a business owner, you will receive the request for the order. Once you’ve finalized your order, you can send the quote to the customer at their email address.
Additional Note:
We didn’t show you the below-mentioned option, since these are premium plugins. However, if you want to install one of the official WooCommerce ‘request a quote’ plugins, then you can follow these steps:
- Go to Products – Add New
- Follow step 9 from the above-mentioned steps
- In the Product data section, click on ‘Get More Options’ and then click on ‘Browse all extensions’
You will be redirected to the WooCommerce Extensions page displaying the various ‘request a quote’ plugins available. Select the one you like, and click on ‘Buy’ to get started
Configure Your ‘Customized’ Store
The ‘Request a Quote’ button is a great way for potential customers to get in touch with you directly when enquiring about customization. We hope that by following the steps mentioned in this tutorial, you can add your own request a quote button to your WooCommerce website and start making sales. You can easily add any of the plugins to your WordPress powered WooCommerce store to help you build and manage your online store efficiently.
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