EarnestLabs Quote & Catalog for WooCommerce
| 开发者 | earnestlabs |
|---|---|
| 更新时间 | 2026年9月3日 16:53 |
| PHP版本: | 7.4 及以上 |
| WordPress版本: | 7.1 |
| 版权: | GPLv2 or later |
| 版权网址: | 版权信息 |
详情介绍:
- Purchasing is blocked server-side, not just hidden with CSS. Even a theme that renders its own cart button cannot bypass it.
- Works with classic and block themes out of the box.
- Product structured data is cleaned so search engines stop showing hidden prices.
- No intrusive popups, no bloat, no external dependencies.
- Catalog mode: hide all prices and/or disable purchasing store-wide.
- "Request a quote" button replacing the cart button (customizable text).
- Multi-product quote list: customers group several products in one request.
- Minimum and maximum quantity, per product: ask for fifty or nothing. The rule is shown next to the quantity, and checked again when the request is sent, not only in the browser.
- Quote requests for signed-in customers only, if you want them: the quote list stays open to everyone, and the request asks for an account at the last step. Off by default.
- A Quote page block for the block editor, and the shortcode for everything else.
- WPML and Polylang: the words you typed yourself, translated per language. Your button text, the sentence that replaces prices in catalog mode, your field labels and the options inside them. The 21 bundled translations cover the plugin's words; these are yours.
- Variable products: the quote button sits on the variations form, and the variant your customer picked is carried onto the quote screen, the dashboard, the emails and the printable sheet. She asks for the navy in size 42, you read the navy in size 42.
- Built-in quote form, and no Contact Form 7 or WPForms to install. Choose whether you ask for a phone number, a message and a VAT number, or none of them.
- VAT number for business customers: ask for it, and it follows the request onto the quote screen, the emails and the printable sheet. Collected and shown, never used to change your tax calculation. With Pro it rides the PDF, the WooCommerce order and the CSV export too.
- Form field builder: text, number, dropdown, radio, checkboxes, date, headings. Ask the one question your trade needs.
- Quotes dashboard: every request stored in your admin with its own status (New → Quoted → Accepted → Paid, or Declined / Expired), not just an email that gets lost. Search by customer, email, product name or SKU, filter by period, and sort any column. The search ignores accents, so Echarpe finds Écharpe.
- A Help screen that answers: how the plugin works in four steps, and the questions shop owners actually ask, answered in full, not a page of links.
- Email notifications to the shop owner and confirmation to the customer.
- A yearly recap of what the plugin brought you: once a year, one email with the requests you received, how many turned into a yes, and what those are worth. No sales pitch, and nothing at all on a year without requests.
- Anti-spam: a silent honeypot, and Cloudflare Turnstile if you want a second gate.
- Printable quote sheet: a clean copy of any request, from the browser, no PDF needed.
- Outgoing webhooks to Zapier, Make, n8n, Slack or your CRM.
- 21 languages out of the box: English plus 20 bundled translations, no translation plugin required.
- Setup wizard, HPOS compatible, theme-overridable templates.
- Price the quote and let the customer pay online: your reply becomes a real WooCommerce order, paid with the gateways your shop already has.
- PDF quote attached to the email, with your logo, signature, brand colour and your own font.
- A reply page your customer reaches from the email: accept, decline with a reason, or counter-offer their own price, without creating an account.
- Ask for a deposit: the customer pays a share to confirm, you invoice the balance from the quote screen once it lands.
- One reminder to a customer sitting on an unpaid quote, with the payment link. One only, on the day you choose.
- Automatic expiry: after the number of days you choose, the quote lapses and its payment link stops working.
- "My quotes" in the customer account, where they accept or decline.
- File upload fields, with the formats you allow and a double check on what is really inside.
- Per-product, per-category and per-role targeting.
- Your own wording for the priced-quote email.
安装:
- Upload the
earnestlabs-quote-catalog-for-woocommercefolder to/wp-content/plugins/. - Activate the plugin through the "Plugins" menu. A "Request a quote" page is created automatically.
- Fine-tune everything under Quote & Catalog → Settings.
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常见问题:
I do not have time to set this up.
Activating the plugin opens a four-step wizard: what the plugin should do, what the button says, where the requests land, and your own details. Catalog mode itself is two switches. You do not configure stock, you do not install a form plugin, and you do not touch your theme. If you stop right after the wizard, you already have a working quote flow.
I do not have the budget.
The free version is a whole run, not a trial. Catalog mode, the multi-product quote list, the built-in form with your own fields, the dashboard with its statuses and its search, the printable quote sheet, outgoing webhooks and 21 languages are all in it. Nothing expires, and nothing switches itself off later. The Pro extension only starts to matter once your quotes turn into money: putting a price on a quote, letting the customer pay it online, the PDF. If you are not there yet, the free version is the right size for you.
It is not my decision.
Whoever has to agree usually asks the same three things. Nothing is migrated: your products, your prices and your past orders stay exactly as they are. It is reversible: deactivate the plugin and the shop sells again the same minute, with every request still stored in your admin. And nothing leaves your site: no account to create, no analytics, no call home. The only outgoing connections are the ones you switch on yourself, and each is listed in the External services section below.
This is not for my kind of shop.
It is built for shops where one fixed price does not make sense: made to measure, wholesale tiers, professional equipment, freight that depends on the address, anything priced per project. It is not for you if every product has one price and your customers buy without asking. Hiding those prices would cost you sales, and this plugin would be in the way. That is worth knowing before you install it rather than after.
I already tried a quote plugin and it did not work.
Three things usually go wrong, and each one is answered here. Prices hidden with CSS only, so a theme, a widget or a search result still shows them. Here purchasing is blocked inside WooCommerce, server-side, and the product structured data is cleaned so search engines stop displaying a price you have hidden. The request arriving as a plain email that gets lost under everything else. Here every request is stored, numbered and given a status, and the dashboard shows you what is still waiting on you. Needing a second plugin for the form. The form is built in, and you add the fields your trade needs without leaving the settings.
I am not ready.
Then do not switch your whole shop over. Turn on the quote button and leave catalog mode off: your prices and cart buttons stay exactly as they are, and a "Request a quote" button appears next to them. Customers who are ready can still buy, and the ones who want a price can ask for one. You can also drop the [elqc_quote_button] shortcode on a single product and see what a real request looks like before deciding anything.
Does it work with my theme?
The plugin only uses official WooCommerce hooks and blocks purchasing server-side, so it works with the vast majority of classic and block themes.
Does it work with Elementor, Divi and other page builders?
Yes. Purchasing is blocked inside WooCommerce itself, so no builder can bypass it, and prices go through the official WooCommerce filter that every builder widget calls. The quote button hooks the per-type add-to-cart actions, which page builder widgets trigger too. If a custom template still needs it, drop the [elqc_quote_button] shortcode anywhere, including in an Elementor or Divi text widget.
How does the customer actually pay? (Pro)
With the gateways your shop already has. Pricing a quote creates a normal WooCommerce order and sends its payment link, so Stripe, PayPal, bank transfer, cheque or cash on delivery all work exactly as they do for any other order, and there is no separate checkout to configure. Paying marks the quote as Paid, and cancelling or refunding the order pulls the quote back in step.
My customers are businesses. Can I collect their VAT number?
Yes. Settings → The form → VAT number field, set to optional or required. The number then follows the request everywhere it matters: the quote screen, the emails, the printable sheet, the PDF and the WooCommerce order, saved under _billing_vat_number, the key invoicing plugins look for.
It is collected and displayed, nothing more. It does not exempt anyone from tax and it changes no total: deciding who pays what is your accountant's call and your country's, not a plugin's. The field is hidden by default, so a shop that sells to individuals never sees it.
Are quote requests stored anywhere?
Yes. Every request appears under Quote & Catalog → Quotes with its own status, in addition to the email notifications.
Can I customise the templates?
Yes. The plugin ships proper, theme-overridable templates: copy a file from the plugin's templates/ folder into yourtheme/earnestlabs-quote-catalog-for-woocommerce/ and it takes precedence, the standard WooCommerce approach. The front end is styled through a real stylesheet with CSS variables (no forced inline styles), and filters such as elqc_quote_items_html, elqc_quote_contact_form_html and elqc_quote_button_html let developers adjust the markup without touching the plugin.
Which languages can the PDF quote be written in? (Pro)
Any language written in the Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, Turkish, Baltic or Thai alphabets. Western European languages work with the built-in typefaces; the others need you to upload your own font once, in the PDF panel, and the plugin then re-encodes it for your alphabet. Japanese, Chinese and Arabic are the exception: the PDF engine cannot set them, so those shops get the quote email, the payment link and the printable page, but no PDF attachment. The plugin says so on screen rather than producing an unreadable file. Everything else, the interface, the emails and the quote page, is fully translated into all 21 languages.
Does the plugin send anything to your servers?
No analytics, no phone-home to us. Nothing leaves your site unless you switch on a feature that needs it, and each one is listed in the External services section below, and every outgoing call goes to a service you chose and configured with your own keys or addresses.
更新日志:
- New: after five quote requests have actually come in, the quotes dashboard asks once whether you would leave a review. Once, on that screen only, and "No thanks" ends it for good. A shop that installed the plugin and never used it is never asked.
- New: a minimum and a maximum quantity per product. "From 50 per request" is a sentence wholesalers say out loud. The plugin now says it before the request rather than after, next to the quantity and again when the request is sent.
- New: quote requests can be reserved for signed-in customers. The quote list still works for everyone, so a visitor builds her selection and signs in at the last step. Off by default.
- New: a Quote page block for the block editor, next to the shortcode. Same rendering, one click instead of a name to remember.
- New: WPML and Polylang. The words you typed yourself, your button text, the text that replaces prices in catalog mode, and your form field labels and their options, can now be translated per language. The 21 bundled translations already covered the plugin's own words. These are yours.
- The listing now says two things the plugin already did without telling anyone: variable products are supported, with the chosen variant carried through, and the dashboard search covers the SKU.
- Fixed: after sending a quote request, the thank-you message pushed the page title off screen. It now stays in view when the whole confirmation fits, so the customer can still see which page answered her.
- New: once a year, a month before the anniversary of the day you installed it, the plugin emails you three numbers over those twelve months: requests received, how many turned into a yes, and what those are worth. Nothing else, no pitch. It stays quiet on a year with no requests, and it switches off under Settings, Notifications.
- Fixed: in the free version, saving the settings reset the deposit and the reminder to their default values. Their screens are Pro, so nothing posted them any more, and absent was read as cleared. A shop that had set them under Pro lost them on the next save.
- The listing now answers the six things shop owners actually hesitate about before installing anything, ahead of the technical questions.
- The quotes dashboard no longer just says "no quote requests yet" on a new shop. It says what is still missing for a first request to arrive, and links to where you fix it.
- On a quote, the free version used to answer the moment you want to send a price with one grey line. It now says what that reply would actually do.
- The listing opens on your day rather than on the plugin.
- The Tools screen had one card titled "Test your emails" whose first setting was a webhook address. Webhooks now have their own card, with their own name.
- The Pro block listed "custom form fields" among the paid features. The field builder has been free since 1.15: the sentence had simply not followed. Corrected in all 20 bundled languages.
- The accent colour is escaped where it is written into the stylesheet, and a core file was being loaded that nothing used.
- The free version no longer ships the code behind the paid features. It never ran there, but shipping a feature and switching it off with a licence check is not allowed on WordPress.org, and it made the plugin read like trialware. Gone from the free package: the file-upload handling, the targeting panel, the priced-quote email and PDF panels, the deposit, the reminder and the quote expiry. The free settings screen now shows only what a free shop can actually use.
- Output is escaped on the line that prints it, everywhere. The markup was already built from escaped parts, but that cannot be checked by anyone reading the line, so every one of them now passes through wp_kses() with the plugin's own allow-list.
- Three internal test notes written in Markdown were shipping inside the plugin. They are gone, and the build now refuses any archive that carries one.
- Tested up to WordPress 7.1.
- VAT number: an optional field on the quote form for business customers, carried onto the quote screen, the emails and the printable sheet, and with Pro onto the PDF, the WooCommerce order and the CSV export. Hidden by default.
- Quotes dashboard: search by customer, email, VAT number or product, with the matching text highlighted in the row; filter by period; sort on quote, customer, products, quantity, date, status and amount; one filter bar on a single row.
- Help screen: how the plugin works in four steps, and nine questions answered in full.
- All 20 bundled languages brought up to date: 669 strings each, none left in English.
- Fixed: searching for a short word such as "ame" returned every quote, because the search read the stored structure rather than the stored values.
- Fixed: the status pills counted the whole database while the list showed a filtered set.
- Fixed: "Clear" left the search box and the status pill untouched.
- Fixed: the columns shifted on every sort, and the table overflowed its own width on a phone.
- Fixed: two quotes created in the same request could be given the same number. The counter was incremented with a direct query but read back through the cache, which returned the value from before. A single quote per web request hid this for months; an import or a bulk action would not have.
- Fixed: a duplicated quote had no quantity, no amount and no search line, so it could not be sorted or found until the next sort rebuilt them.
- Fixed: the free version pointed nowhere for the paid features. It now links to the product page, since the WordPress.org build carries no store code by design.
- The documentation link points at the documentation page rather than the raw folder index, in French or in English.
- First public release.
- Quote form: an optional VAT number field for business customers, carried onto the quote, the emails, the printable sheet, the PDF and the order. Hidden by default.
- Help screen: how the plugin works in four steps, and nine questions answered in full.
- Quotes dashboard: search by customer, email or product, filter by period, sortable columns, and a single filter bar.