Dordam: Request a Quote + Negotiation

Dordam is a free WooCommerce quote plugin that lets customers request a custom quote and negotiate the price directly with your store — instead of buying at a fixed price. Perfect for B2B stores, wholesale suppliers, custom-order shops, and any WooCommerce store where "Add to Cart" doesn't fit every product. Turn price-sensitive shoppers into customers by letting them ask for a better deal, right on the product page. Instead of "Add to Cart," quote-enabled products show a "Request a Quote" button. The store admin reviews the request, sets a custom per-unit price, and Dordam emails the customer a secure, one-time checkout link. Customers can accept the offer or send back a counter-offer — for as many rounds as you allow — until you agree on a price. Why store owners use Dordam

• Close more B2B and wholesale sales by letting bulk buyers negotiate instead of walking away from a fixed price.
• No coding required — enable quotes per product from the WooCommerce product editor in seconds.
• Real price negotiation, not just a one-way quote request — customers can counter-offer, and you control how many rounds are allowed.
• Secure by design — accepted prices are locked server-side, so a negotiated price can never be tampered with on the way to checkout.

Key features Request-a-quote button

• Replace, or add alongside, the Add to Cart button — you choose the position (replace / before / after).
• Fully customizable button text.
• Enable quote requests per product, with an optional minimum order quantity.
• Quantity +/- stepper for a faster, more mobile-friendly experience.
• Real-time form validation (name, email, quantity) before the request is even submitted.

Multi-round price negotiation

• Customers can accept an offer or send a counter-offer — configurable round limit to prevent endless back-and-forth.
• A visual round-progress indicator shows customers exactly where they are in the negotiation.
• Clean, professional negotiation page design that customers see when responding to an offer.

Secure, tamper-proof checkout

• Once a price is agreed, the customer gets a unique link that adds the product to their cart at exactly that price.
• The negotiated price is locked server-side — it cannot be changed by the customer, ever.
• One-time use: once an order is placed, the link can't be reused.

Email notifications, fully customizable

• Automatic emails for new quote requests, new offers, counter-offers, and order confirmations.
• Customers get a confirmation email the moment they submit a request.
• Set a custom "From Name" and "From Email Address" for all quote-related emails.

Spam & data protection

• Built-in honeypot spam protection for the quote request form — no CAPTCHA required.
• Optional: automatically delete all quote data when the plugin is uninstalled (off by default, so your history is safe).

Polish that customers notice

• Animated loading spinner while a request is submitting.
• Animated success checkmark on successful submission.
• Sticky quote button on mobile, so it's always within reach while scrolling.

Built for modern WooCommerce

• Compatible with WooCommerce High-Performance Order Storage (HPOS).
• Compatible with the Cart and Checkout Blocks.
• Lightweight — no bloated settings pages, no unnecessary dependencies.

Who is Dordam for?

• B2B and wholesale WooCommerce stores that need flexible, negotiable pricing.
• Custom-order shops (furniture, signage, printing, made-to-order products) where a single fixed price doesn't work.
• Any WooCommerce store owner who wants to stop losing price-sensitive customers to "contact us for a quote" dead ends.

1.5.3

• Fix: the popup quote form had no background color set, so it looked transparent (see-through to the page behind it). It now has a solid white background.
• Changed: the popup backdrop dimming reduced from 55% to 30% opacity.

1.5.2

• Added Plugin URI, Author URI, and Donate link.

1.5.1

• New: "Quote form display" setting under Quote Requests > Settings — choose between the existing Inline style (form expands below the button) or a new Popup style (form opens as a centered overlay with a backdrop). Popup mode supports closing via the X button, clicking the backdrop, or pressing Escape.
• Rewrote the plugin description with full feature coverage and SEO-friendly content for the WordPress.org listing.

1.5.0

• New: quantity +/- stepper buttons on the quote request form (instead of a plain number field).
• New: real-time field validation (name, email, quantity) with inline error messages, before the request is even submitted.
• New: the quote button sticks to the bottom of the screen while scrolling on mobile, so it stays reachable.
• New: a round-progress indicator (dots + "Round X of Y") on the customer negotiation page.
• Redesigned the customer negotiation page with a dedicated stylesheet instead of inline styles, for a more professional, on-brand look.
• New: animated loading spinner on the submit button, and an animated checkmark on successful submission.

1.4.1

• New: Email Settings section under Quote Requests > Settings — lets you set which "From Name" and "From Email Address" quote notification emails are sent from, instead of always using the site default.

1.3.5

• Fix: the quote button now displays as a full-width block button (like most themes' Add to Cart) with consistent spacing above/below, instead of an inline button that could visually collide with Add to Cart on themes with different button widths.

1.3.5

• Fix: the quote button was narrower than the real Add to Cart button, since it sits outside WooCommerce's own flex-laid-out cart form (which is what stretches Add to Cart to full width). The button is now explicitly full-width with matching padding, so it visually matches Add to Cart on any theme.

1.4.0

• New: "Dashboard" tab (now the default landing tab on Quote Requests) with real stat cards (Total/Pending/Accepted quotes), a Dordam Pro promo card, and a "How Dordam Works" overview. Purely additive — the Quotes and Settings tabs, quote request logic, and database structure are all unchanged. Existing links to a specific quote (?view=X) still work exactly as before.

1.3.6

• Fix: Plugin Check nonce-verification warning on the Settings page's "saved" notice — documented as a read-only display flag (the actual save is already nonce-verified in handle_save()).

1.3.5

• Fix: the quote button now copies the real Add to Cart button's CSS classes and stretches to full width via JavaScript, so it visually matches the theme's actual button styling (size, color, font) instead of looking like a separate, oddly-sized element next to it.

1.3.4

• Fix: the quote button/form was rendering wherever PHP hook priority happened to place it, which didn't match the actual Add to Cart position on themes that don't follow WooCommerce's standard priority layout. Positioning (before/after/replace) is now done in JavaScript by moving the button next to the real, rendered form.cart element in the DOM — this matches the visible Add to Cart position exactly, regardless of theme/page-builder quirks.

1.3.3

• Fix: "replace" mode still wasn't reliably hiding WooCommerce's Add to Cart form on some themes/setups, since remove_action() timing can vary. Added a CSS-based fallback that hides the Add to Cart form for that specific product (scoped via WordPress's own postid-{ID} body class), which works regardless of hook order or how the theme renders the page.

1.3.2

• Fix: "replace" button position never actually removed WooCommerce's Add to Cart button. Both were hooked at the same priority (30), and WooCommerce's own callback (registered first) always ran before ours could call remove_action() on it — too late to have any effect. The removal now happens in its own earlier-priority (5) callback, before WooCommerce's Add to Cart template ever fires.
• Fix: the "Request a Quote" toggle button now uses WooCommerce's own single_add_to_cart_button class, so it inherits your theme's normal Add to Cart button styling instead of looking like a plain bordered box. The boxed/bordered styling now only applies to the expanded form, not the button itself.

1.3.1

• Fix: the Settings page is now a tab inside "Quote Requests" (?page=dordam-quotes&tab=settings) instead of a separate WordPress submenu page. The separate submenu link was sometimes generated without the required "admin.php?page=" prefix by WordPress core's own menu-rendering logic, leading to a broken link / 404. Using a tab on the existing page avoids that class of issue entirely.

1.3.0

• New: quote-enabled products now show a "Request a Quote" toggle button instead of the full form by default; clicking it reveals the form. Button text and position (replace/before/after Add to Cart) are configurable under Quote Requests > Settings.
• New: customers now get a confirmation email when they submit a quote request (previously only the admin was notified).
• New: honeypot field on the quote request form to quietly filter out basic bot spam.
• New: optional data cleanup on uninstall (Quote Requests > Settings > "Delete all quote request data when this plugin is deleted"), off by default.
• Changed: default negotiation round limit lowered from 5 to 2 (still filterable via dordam_max_negotiation_rounds).

1.2.1

• Fix: prefixed a template-local variable ($display_price -> $dordam_display_price) flagged by the PrefixAllGlobals sniff in templates/quote-response-page.php.
• Updated Author to "NexVibe" and Contributors to "nexvibe". Text Domain and plugin slug remain "dordam" (unchanged).

1.2.0

• Fix: renamed all functions, classes, constants, hooks, post type, and meta keys from the "rqn" prefix (too short) to "dordam" (matches plugin slug), per WordPress.org Plugin Review Team feedback.
• Fix: replaced echoed inline <style> block in the admin quote screen with a properly enqueued stylesheet (assets/css/dordam-admin.css), loaded only on our own admin page via admin_enqueue_scripts.

1.1.3

• Renamed plugin to "Dordam: Request a Quote + Negotiation".
• Text Domain changed from "request-a-quote-negotiation" to "dordam" to match the new plugin slug.

1.1.2

• Fix: short description rewritten again with simpler, more common wording (still flagged as "non-standard English" after the first rewrite).
• Fix: remaining nonce-verification warnings — phpcs:ignore only silences the single following line, so a few $_GET/$_POST reads sitting on their own line right after an ignore comment were still being flagged; each now has its own comment.

1.1.1

• Fix: removed placeholder "example.com" Plugin/Author URI (flagged by Plugin Check as a discouraged domain).
• Fix: Text Domain now matches the plugin slug (was "rqn", now "request-a-quote-negotiation").
• Fix: replaced strip_tags() with wp_strip_all_tags() per WordPress coding standards.
• Fix: properly escaped remaining dynamic output in the admin quote screen.
• Fix: readme short description rewritten in plain standard English; Tested up to updated to 7.0.
• Docs: documented why the accept/negotiation links use a per-quote secret token instead of a WordPress nonce (they're emailed to anonymous customers and must stay valid for days).

1.1.0

• New: multi-round customer counter-offers with a dedicated negotiation response page (accept or counter-offer).
• New: configurable round limit (dordam_max_negotiation_rounds filter).
• New: "Countered" status with color-coded status badges in wp-admin.
• Admin can now respond to a "countered" quote with a new offer, pre-filled with the customer's proposed price.