The best Shopify request a quote apps hide the price on the products you choose, collect the buyer's request, and turn it into a draft order you can adjust and send back with a checkout link. Pick on that last step: if a quote only arrives as an email, you'll be retyping every trade order by hand.
Most guides treat a quote button as a design choice. It isn't. It's a sales process, and the app you pick decides how much of that process you end up doing by hand.
Follow one quote from button to payment
Picture a café group that wants 60 branded mugs, delivered to two sites, with its own logo. On a store with no quote flow, the buyer either guesses at your retail price and leaves, or sends an email you then copy into Shopify line by line.
With a quote app that writes draft orders, the same request goes like this. The mug page shows a quote button where add to cart used to be. The form asks for quantity, artwork notes and a delivery postcode. The request lands in your admin as a draft order, under Orders, then Drafts. You add a trade discount, say 12%, put in the delivery charge, and press Send invoice. The buyer gets an email with a checkout link, pays, and the order sits in your history like any other sale, with stock counted.
Compare that with the email route and you can see where the hours go. The ones that stop at an email notification still help, because they capture the lead, but you're doing the admin the app could have done. The ones that write draft orders turn a quote into something you can invoice in one go.
What a quote app costs, against what it saves
On the apps' own Shopify listings this month, entry paid plans run from about $3 to $17 a month, and the dearest tier stops just under $70. Half the apps here start on a free plan, so you can put the quote flow in front of real buyers before you pay anything.
Set that against the job the app replaces. A quote typed by hand means reading the email, building a draft order line by line, working out delivery and writing the reply. An app that writes the draft order takes away the line-by-line rebuild on every request, and leaves you only the discount, the delivery charge and the reply. The higher tiers mostly buy you finer price hiding, buyer-proposed prices or automation, so check which tier holds the feature you came for before you assume the entry plan covers it.
Three questions that sort the field
What do you need to hide, and from whom? Most of these apps pair the quote button with controls that hide the price, the add to cart button, or both. That's aimed at wholesale and special-order products. The finer ones let you hide by collection, product tag or customer group, which matters if retail shoppers and trade buyers share one store. If you only need it on a single made-to-order range, a per-product or per-collection switch is plenty.
Where does the quote end up? A draft order you can discount and invoice, or an email and a list inside the app? Read the listing for the words draft order. If they're missing, assume you'll be keying orders in yourself.
What extras earn their keep? Some listings let buyers propose their own price per item inside a quote, which suits trades where haggling is normal. Others add multi-step forms, quoting by WhatsApp or phone, AI-written proposals, analytics on the quote funnel, or Zapier so a request can land in your CRM. They're useful if you'd use them on day one. Otherwise they're settings you'll never open.
Eight apps that take a quote request instead of a sale
YouQuote: Request a Quote Form
Lets shoppers ask for a quote from a product, collection or cart page, then hands you a draft order to discount and invoice.
SA Request a Quote, Hide Price
Where buyers like to haggle, this one lets them suggest their own price per item while you hide prices on chosen products.
ShopziCurious Request a Quote
A lean quote button, with price hiding you can switch on product by product or for a whole collection at once.
InstantQuote
Small stores that want each quote to appear as a draft order in the admin, ready to discount and invoice, should look here.
Quotify: Request a Quote (RFQ)
Built around B2B requests, with AI-written proposals, Google Analytics funnel tracking and Zapier for pushing quotes into your other systems.
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Request a Quote, Hide Price (Gravity Software)
Adds a request button to product and collection pages, with forms you can set per product and price hiding alongside.
Request a Quote-Call for Price (SetuBridge)
For stores that quote by phone or WhatsApp as often as by form, with multi-step forms and price hiding by tag or customer group.
Request a Quote Hide Price B2B (CWILL)
Wholesale sellers who simply want add to cart swapped for a quote button on selected products, plus an email when a request lands.
A hidden price isn't a quote flow
Here's the trap I'd watch for when you browse the Shopify App Store. Some apps hide prices and lock pages for logged-out visitors but barely handle quote requests at all. They're fine for a members-only wholesale catalogue. They're the wrong tool if you need a buyer to tell you what they want and get a price back. Read the listing for the request form and for where the request goes, not just for the word quote in the title.
The other shift on the listings is automation. Two of the apps here now write proposals with AI or hand quote drafting to Shopify's own assistant, Sidekick. It's worth a look if you send dozens of similar quotes a week. For a handful of bespoke jobs, your own two-line reply will read better than anything generated.
If your trade buyers already know their prices and just need a private way to order, you may not need a quote app at all. Shopify's own B2B features and the wholesale apps work differently, and my guide to Shopify B2B explains what they cover.
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Mistakes that cost trade orders
Hiding prices across the whole store. Retail shoppers who see no price on anything have little reason to stay. Hide only the products or collections that need a conversation, and leave the rest buyable.
A form that asks for everything. Quantity, contact details and one free-text box will get you most requests. Every extra required field loses some buyers who'd have happily answered the question by email.
Never testing the notification. Send yourself a quote from a phone, logged out, before launch. Check it reaches the inbox you watch and not the spam folder, and that the draft order, if your app makes one, carries the right products and quantities.
No reply promise. Put a line under the button saying when you'll reply. A buyer comparing three suppliers chooses the one that answers first, and a clear promise keeps them from shopping around while they wait.
Matching the app to how you sell
- A plain quote button that writes draft orders suits a retail store taking the odd custom or bulk order. Clean admin, almost nothing to learn.
- Price hiding by customer group or tag belongs on a store where trade and retail buyers share the catalogue: retail shoppers still see prices, trade buyers see the quote route. Pair it with one of the Shopify wholesale apps when trade buyers also need tiered prices they can order at directly.
- Buyer-proposed prices earn their place in trades where haggling is normal, because they save a round of emails on every deal.
- Zapier, funnel tracking or AI proposals matter once quotes feed a sales team. Check the hand-off to your CRM works before the button goes live.
And once quotes involve configuring products, discount approval chains or long contracts, a store app is the wrong tool altogether: CPQ software is built for that job.
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