Quick quote

What it does

A quote on one page: the items, the subtotal, the discount, the VAT and the total. With a header — who is issuing, the client’s address, the document number, the date, the notes — and a print sheet that is a document rather than a web page.

What gets printed is a document

Pressing «print or save as PDF» does not produce this page stripped down: it produces an A4 sheet with the header, the table and the totals, and nothing else. No menu, no footer, no background.

The client’s address sits where it is needed. Top right, forty-five millimetres from the top edge of the sheet: that is where the window of an envelope is, so the quote folds and posts without rewriting the address by hand.

The PDF is made by the browser, with its own print function: no library, and the text in the file stays selectable and searchable.

The maths is done in whole cents

That is not a programmer’s detail: in floating point 0.1 + 0.2 does not make 0.3, and a quote that is one cent out over twenty rows is a wrong quote that nobody catches until the client redoes the sums.

The discount applies before VAT. That is the right order for tax — the tax is calculated on what is actually paid — and the only one that gives a total the client finds again when they check.

The rates

The two presets — Switzerland 8.1% and Italy 22% — were verified against official sources, and the date of that check is written under the field. A rate hard-coded with no date is a number that ages in silence, and here an old number produces a wrong quote that looks right.

The rate stays free to edit: reduced rates depend on the goods or the service, not on the country, and putting them in a menu would invite picking one at random.

Rounding to five cents

In Switzerland it is the amount payable in cash that gets rounded, not the net and not the tax. Turn it on and the total goes to the nearest multiple of five cents, with the exact one still written beside it: two different numbers, and both are needed.

It is not an invoice

No sequential numbering, no archive, no ledger, no mandatory tax fields. A real invoice needs tax requirements this tool does not have and does not pretend to have: the document is titled «Quote» and it will never be titled anything else.

The «Document no.» field is free for exactly that reason: it is a reference you choose, not a numbering somebody keeps for you.

No saving

The data lives in this page: reload and it is gone. That is written at the top of the tool and not at the bottom, because it is the thing to know before entering fifteen items.

About your data

Nothing leaves this page and nothing is saved.