Quote a print job while they're on the phone

No. Quoting and accepting never touch Stripe — a customer can accept with nothing connected, and the job and invoice happen anyway. Connect Stripe only when you want the online payment buttons, which is about five minutes of their onboarding.

Then they'll feel at home. With Stripe connected there's a Pay by Bank button right next to the card one — they approve it in their banking app, no card number typed, and you both see it confirmed on the spot. Prefer plain transfers? Fill in your bank details and they appear on the quote page, the invoice, the PDF and the emails, with the quote or invoice number as the reference — when the money arrives you mark the invoice paid. Cash and cheque work the same way.

A plain bank transfer is the fastest route — Faster Payments, straight into your account, usually in seconds. Card and Pay by Bank confirm instantly, then settle through your Stripe account, which pays out to your bank on its standard schedule — typically a couple of business days, a little longer for your very first payout. Either way we're never holding it in between.

Whichever you want, line by line. Type a price you already know, or switch the line to the configurator: pick the press, the stock and the finishing, and it works out how many pieces fit a sheet — shown on screen, not taken on trust — what the job costs you, and the price at your margin. Presses and papers are created the first time you need them, from inside the quote.

Covered. Add a large-format printer with its cost per square metre and your roll media, and the configurator prices wide-format work by area, the same way it prices sheet work by imposition — with your margin on top, on the same quote as the business cards.

Yes — take it on your own card terminal and mark the invoice paid as an in-store terminal payment, same as cash or bank transfer. It's recorded properly either way, whether the customer pays online or in person.

Yes. Set a credit period on a quote — or a default for every new one — and once it's accepted the invoice due date and the customer's copy both reflect it automatically: “Credit — pay within 30 days, by [date]” instead of due on receipt.

Turn it off in settings and your quotes and invoices go out clean, with no VAT line and no VAT number. If you are registered, every line defaults to 20% — but you can zero-rate an individual item, or delivery, when the job calls for it.

Deliberately not. A sent quote is frozen so what your customer accepted is exactly what you sent. To revise, clone it — you get a fresh quote to edit and the original is marked superseded, so the trail stays honest.

Pause the job and record the change — a different quantity, a reprint, whatever it is. thintent looks at what's already been invoiced and paid, and once you approve the new price it raises a supplementary invoice, a credit note, or voids and reissues the original — whichever actually fits.

Yes. Invite them by email and they can do all the quote work. Shop settings, Stripe and billing stay with owners.

Either. A quote can be collection, UK delivery or international, and a delivery address travels with it onto the customer's quote and the paperwork.

They don't. The link in the email is the quote — it opens straight onto the page where they can read it, download the PDF, accept and pay. No accounts, no portal, nothing to forget.