Sheet Metal Quoting Calculator – WordPress Instant Quote Plugin for Fabrication Shops

Description

Sheet Metal Quoting Calculator – Instant Sheet Metal Quotes for Your WordPress Site

Let customers price their own parts. The Sheet Metal Quoting Calculator adds an instant quote form to any WordPress page. Customers pick a material, gauge, part size, quantity, bends, holes, welding and finish, and see a live, itemized price before they ever pick up the phone.

As a result, it is a fit for sheet metal fabrication shops, laser cutting and job shops, and production fabricators who want to answer pricing questions faster and turn website visitors into qualified quote requests. In addition, every material, gauge, rate and fee comes from your own shop numbers, so each estimate reflects how you actually price work.

Try the live demo

Below is a working demo of the calculator exactly as your customers would see it. Change the material, size, bends and quantity, load the sample DXF, or open the shop owner view to tweak your rates and branding. Nothing you enter here is sent or stored.

Live, itemized pricing from your sheet metal quoting calculator

• Material priced by weight from density, part size, thickness and your price per pound
• Cutting by total cut length, adjusted by a cutting-difficulty multiplier for each gauge
• Bending per bend, plus a press brake setup fee when the part has bends
• Holes and punching, welding per linear inch, and finishing as a flat fee or per square foot
• Setup fees, minimum order charge and markup applied automatically
• Quantity discount tiers you set and an optional rush-order surcharge
• Estimated total and price per part that update as the customer types

Drop in a DXF and the part measures itself

Customers can upload a CAD file with their quote request. For example, DXF flat patterns are read right in the customer’s browser, and the part size, total cut length and hole count fill in automatically. Also, drawings in inches, millimeters, centimeters, meters and feet are all supported.

• STEP, IGES, SLDPRT, X_T, STL, DWG and PDF files are attached to the request so your team can review the model and confirm exact pricing
• You choose the accepted file types and the maximum upload size

Set up your sheet metal quoting calculator with no code

Instead of editing code, you change everything from the WordPress admin. That way, the same plugin fits a small job shop or a large production fabricator.

• Materials with density and price per pound. Ships with cold rolled steel, hot rolled steel, galvanized steel, 304 and 316 stainless, and 5052 and 6061 aluminum, ready to edit, delete or add to
• Gauges and thickness with a cutting-difficulty multiplier for each
• Finishes such as powder coat, anodize, zinc plate and deburr
• Shop rates for cutting, bending, press brake setup, holes, welding, job setup, minimum order, markup and rush orders
• Branding with your company name, brand color and currency symbol

Every quote request becomes a lead

When a customer asks for a formal quote, the full part spec, price breakdown and any uploaded CAD file are saved under Sheet Metal Quotes → Quote Requests in wp-admin. At the same time, your shop gets an email notification and the customer gets a confirmation email, so no request slips through the cracks.

Add it to any page in seconds

Place the sheet metal quote calculator on any page or post with the shortcode [smqc_calculator]. After that, it runs on its own and does not require WooCommerce.

Need quotes for machined parts too?

Pair it with our CNC Quoting Calculator to give customers instant pricing on both sheet metal and CNC machined parts.

Requirements

WordPress 5.8 or newer and PHP 7.4 or newer. Licensed GPLv2 or later. One-time purchase with no subscription or monthly fees. Includes the plugin zip for installation through Plugins → Add New → Upload Plugin.