Estimates

Create and share pricing estimates before checkout. Estimates make it easy to review costs, secure approvals, and plan school, bulk, sponsored, or fundraising orders.

Estimates

Quickly build and share pricing breakdowns before an order is finalized. Estimates are useful for large orders, organizations, or anyone who needs approval before purchasing.

What Are Estimates?

Estimates let you build a cart, calculate totals, and send a pricing overview to stakeholders before committing to a purchase. They're useful for quoting bulk orders, fundraising events, or planning larger apparel purchases.

How Estimates Work

  • Build a Cart: Add products and quantities to view real-time pricing
  • Save Cart: From your shopping cart, click save. You can email yourself or anyone else a copy, and the cart will automatically be converted into an estimate
  • Saved Carts: From your dashboard, you can download or email any saved cart as an estimate at any time
  • Share with Stakeholders: Email the estimate or share the PDF with stakeholders
  • Convert to Order: Once approved, proceed through checkout

Bonus Tip

Use Team Access to give other authorized users visibility into the account and collaborate with stakeholders.

Benefits of Estimates

  • Streamlined Approval: Send estimates for pricing approval before checkout
  • Clear Cost Breakdown: Review pricing with shipping, taxes, and applicable discounts included
  • Easier Review: Give coaches, administrators, purchasing teams, or fundraising leads a clear estimate to review
  • Direct Conversion: Once approved, return to the saved cart and proceed with the order

Why Choose Ink Center?

Estimates are built directly into your account workflow, so you can create, save, share, and return to pricing without relying on a separate quoting tool or offline spreadsheet. This keeps order planning and approvals connected to the cart you intend to purchase.

Use Cases for Estimates

School Purchase Approval

Build and share an estimate with a principal, administrator, or finance office for approval before placing an order.

Team Fundraisers

Build product mixes and compare pricing at different quantities when planning a fundraising campaign.

Bulk or Sponsored Orders

Create estimates for custom orders that need sponsor review, budget approval, or event funding before purchasing.