We build your website around the request for quote, so buyers send the drawing, quantity, material, and date in one form.
Most manufacturers we talk to are dealing with at least one of these.
01
Job applications, sales pitches, and spam come through, while real requests still arrive by email from people who already knew you. A buyer who has never heard of you finds nowhere obvious to send a drawing.
How we fix it. We build a quote form that takes the drawing in the file types you accept, with the quantity, material, and date on the same screen. Each request goes straight to your sales team, and on the Mechanical Finishers and PLI sites, Cloudflare Turnstile keeps the spam out.
Contact form, this week
Quote form
DrawingSTEP, DWG, or PDF
Quantity500 pieces
Material6061-T6
Needed byMarch 14
Sent to your sales team
02
A form with a name, an email, and a message box cannot carry a drawing, so your estimator writes back for the print, then the quantity, the material, and the date. The old Mechanical Finishers form capped the message at 180 characters, and the old SurfTech quote page asked for drawings with no way to attach one.
How we fix it. The form asks for what your estimator needs on the first pass. The SurfTech form now asks for the part, the substrate, the quantity per lot, the coating, and how the part fails now, with a drawing field that takes PDF, DXF, DWG, STEP, IGES, STL, and ZIP files. Our pages for machine shops, fabrication shops, heat treaters, injection molders, and contract manufacturers show what each trade’s form asks for.
Contact form
Six emails before anyone can price it
Quote form
Drawing attached
500 pieces
6061-T6
Needed by March 14
Ready to price on the first read
03
An engineer checks the process, material, tolerance, and certification before writing to anyone. When the page cannot answer, they move to the next supplier, and you never hear about it.
How we fix it. We write a page for each process you run, with the materials, tolerances, part sizes, and certifications as plain text, and add tools an engineer can use before calling, such as the hydrogen embrittlement bake advisor on the Mechanical Finishers site.
No clear answer
Moves on to the next supplier. You never hear about it.
The answer is on the page
Sends you the drawing for a quote.
04
A buyer comparing suppliers late in the evening often has one question before sending a drawing. In a Harvard Business Review study of 2,241 US companies, 23% never answered a web inquiry at all.
How we fix it. Every $6,000 website comes with an AI assistant that answers from your own approved pages at any hour. Anything those pages do not cover goes to a person on your team, with the visitor’s contact details attached.
Without an assistant
The question waits in an inbox until the next morning.
With the assistant
Answered in seconds from your own pages, and saved to your lead sheet.
05
Requests land in the sales inbox, in an engineer’s inbox, or on a note by the phone. Without a record of where each one came from, you cannot tell which pages are earning their place.
How we fix it. Every inquiry from the forms and the assistant is saved to an Excel lead sheet that is yours to keep, and also sent to your sales inbox. Tracking shows which page each request came from.
Where requests end up today
Your Excel lead sheet
| Came in | Sent through | From page |
|---|---|---|
| Mon 9:12 AM | Quote form | Zinc plating |
| Mon 9:40 PM | Assistant | Passivation |
| Tue 7:05 AM | Quote form | Business Profile |
This is the path a buyer takes to your quote form, and what the website does at each step.
01
Finds your process page
The buyer searches for the process and material on the drawing.
We write a page for each process you run.
02
Checks the fit
They look for the material, tolerance, part size, and certification they need.
Every figure is plain text, approved by your team.
03
Asks a question
They want one thing confirmed before sending a print.
The assistant answers from your approved pages.
04
Sends the RFQ
They attach the drawing and add the quantity, material, and date.
The request goes to sales and into your lead sheet.
Every website we build comes with all of this, paid once.
| What you get | A quote form that takes the drawing, quantity, material, and date, a page for each process you run, an AI assistant, and an Excel lead sheet. |
|---|---|
| Price | $6,000, one time |
| Smaller shops | A starter website for a shop with one or two processes is $2,000, also with a quote form that takes drawings. |
| Time to launch | 6 to 18 days from brief to launch |
| Who owns it | Your company. The full source code is yours at launch. |
| How it starts | Send us your website address and a few lines about what you make. |
The rest of the build, from the capability tables to the handover, is on our manufacturing website design page, and the code and every account are yours, as set out under website ownership. A group with several divisions gets a quote form for each of its division sites, and every price Shopfloor Agency charges is on our pricing page. Our page on website design for B2B buyers covers the spec tables and shareable pages that sit around the quote form.
Each form asks for what that company needs to price the work. Our guide to the RFQ form for manufacturers lists every field worth asking for.
2,770Google impressions in 28 days, seven weeks after launch
We built a six-process finishing website in six days for a Cincinnati metal finisher and zinc plater.
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13Coating codes, each with its own page
We built a coating selection website with two engineering tools in ten days for an Ohio low temperature PVD coater.
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19,200Google impressions in 28 days for plistaffing.com, seven weeks after launch
We built five websites under one brand system in 18 days for a Cleveland manufacturing support group.
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Send us your website address and a few lines about what you make. We will reply with the scope, a fixed price, and a launch date. To see where your site stands today, our RFQ readiness scorecard runs twenty checks in about four minutes.