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What is a slow quote costing you?
Put in how many quotes you send a week, how long they take to go out and what you win now. This shows the value sitting unsent in the queue, and what a win rate you choose yourself would be worth over a year.
How this works it out
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The wait, in weeks
The queue figure is quotes a week multiplied by the wait expressed in weeks.
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Quotes sitting unsent
That gives the number sitting unsent on a normal day.
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What the pile is worth
Those quotes multiplied by the average job value.
Send nine quotes a week with a four day wait and about five are always in the pile. Shorten the wait and the pile shrinks in proportion, which is arithmetic rather than a claim about anything.
The yearly figures are quotes a week multiplied by 52, then by a win rate, then by the average job value. A year here is 52 calendar weeks.
The third figure uses the win rate in the lower box and nothing else, and that box opens on the same number as your current win rate, so the page starts by showing no difference whatsoever.
Deliberately left out
- Whether the customer had already accepted somebody else's quote
- Whether a faster quote is a worse quote
- The jobs you never quoted for at all because the enquiry got lost
The missed calls calculator covers that last one. Our full workings are on the methodology page.
What makes a quote slow is usually not the writing. It is waiting on a price, digging out the last job like it, or the fact that nobody can start it until the person who visited the site is back at a desk. Which of those run to a pattern is the question the free audit answers, and it is not one a calculator can.
Questions people ask
- What counts as turnaround?
- The time between the customer asking and the quote landing in front of them. Not how long it takes you to write it once you sit down, which is usually the small part, but the whole wait including the evenings and weekends it sits in the pile.
- Does quoting faster actually win more work?
- We are not going to tell you it does, because we could not find a UK study we would be willing to put our name to. It is widely claimed and rarely evidenced. That is why the second win rate in this tool opens on the same figure as your current one, showing a difference of nothing until you decide otherwise.
- What is the queue figure?
- The value of the quotes that are sitting unsent on a normal day. If you produce ten quotes a week and each waits three days, then at any moment about four are in the pile. It is not lost money. It is the work in progress that has to clear before anybody can say yes to it.
- Do you keep any of this?
- Your figures are not. The sums run in your browser and the numbers you type are never sent to us. We do count that a tool was used, with no figures attached, so we know which tools are worth keeping. The one thing that reaches us is the summary on the button at the end, and only if you press it, because that button puts the same summary into the audit form in front of you, where you can edit or delete it before sending anything. No cookies, no tracking, nothing stored on your device.
Where these numbers come from
- Nothing here but your own figures . This tool uses no public rate and no industry average. Both win rates are yours, and the second one opens on the same figure as the first so the page asserts no difference at all. We deliberately do not claim that faster quotes win more work, because we have no UK source we could show you for it. A year is 52 calendar weeks.
Last checked 19 September 2026.
Our workings are on the methodology page .
The real number
This is an estimate. The audit is the count.
A calculator works from what you typed. The free audit works from your actual week: every repeated job, ranked by the hours it eats, with a map of the five worth doing first. It costs nothing and you keep the lot.
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- Cost of admin time What the jobs you repeat every week cost in hours and in money
- Cost of missed calls What the calls nobody answers are worth, at your own conversion rate
- True cost of an employee Salary plus employer National Insurance, pension, recruitment and kit, per year and per hour
- Cost of chasing late invoices The hours chasing invoices costs, and the interest and compensation the law lets you claim
- Which tasks run on rules Sort the jobs you repeat into rules based, needs a person, and needs a closer look
Guides that go with this
- How we work out the numbers Every assumption behind the free tools, and where each rate comes from
- Cost of admin time What the jobs you repeat every week cost in hours and in money
- Cost of missed calls What the calls nobody answers are worth, at your own conversion rate
- True cost of an employee Salary plus employer National Insurance, pension, recruitment and kit, per year and per hour
- Cost of chasing late invoices The hours chasing invoices costs, and the interest and compensation the law lets you claim
- Which tasks run on rules Sort the jobs you repeat into rules based, needs a person, and needs a closer look