Solution 02 · Quotes that go unanswered

"We send quotes and never hear back."

Your team already did the hard part. They quoted it, the buyer asked for a price — and then it sat there. No second follow-up, no owner, no reopen. Multiply that by twelve months. Then twenty-four. That backlog is the cheapest pipeline you have, and nobody is working it.

QUOTE BACKLOGREOPENED
What's actually going on

If this sounds familiar, it’s because quoting is reactive work — and follow-up is the first thing to fall off the desk:

A quote with no follow-up is a lead you paid to generate and then threw away.

Most manufacturers can tell you what they quoted last quarter. Very few can tell you which of those quotes are still open, which went cold, and which were lost to a competitor versus lost to silence.

That gap is not laziness. Quoting is reactive work, it arrives all at once, and the moment the quote leaves the building the next one is already coming in. Follow-up is the first thing to fall off the desk.

It also happens to be the cheapest revenue available to you. The buyer asked. The specification exists. The only missing piece is a system that keeps asking after the person stops.

The quote recovery calculator

How much is sitting in quotes nobody reopened?

Push the numbers around — these are your figures, nothing is stored or sent.

Who reopens a quote after the first no-reply?
Do you know your win rate on the quotes you actually follow up?
600
$12,000
20%
Not set
Using 25% — a conservative close rate on a warm, already-quoted buyer. Set your own if you know it.
Quotes going unworked each year480
Value sitting in unworked quotes (this year)$5,760,000
Recoverable this year$1,440,000
Over 24 months, the backlog is roughly$2,880,000Two years of unworked quotes

Your team already quoted these. The buyer already asked for the price. The only thing missing was a follow-up nobody owned — and two years of them are sitting in your pipeline right now.

eRevenu reopens and works the follow-up. Your sales team closes. Figures are illustrative and driven entirely by your inputs.
What runs at Core

How we work the backlog.

01

Every open quote in one pipeline

Quotes loaded into the Portal as opportunities with value, date, and stage, so "what is open" is a screen, not a conversation.

02

Follow-up that runs on its own

A cadence that continues after the quote goes out, in your voice, without a rep having to diary it.

03

Aging alerts

When a quote passes the age at which your deals usually die, the Partner and the rep both know.

04

Win and loss captured

Why it closed, why it did not. After a quarter you can see the pattern instead of guessing at it.

What you would see in the first 90 days

Completed work, not promises.

Every one of these is completed work: visible in the Portal, verifiable the day it happens.

Open quotes pulled into one pipelineLoaded, valued, and staged in the Portal
Follow-up touches sentSent on cadence without rep effort
Quotes re-engagedBuyer responded after going quiet
Lost quotes recorded with reasonsCleared out of the pipeline honestly

Your targets are set from your own numbers during the Go-to-Market Assessment and reported in the eRevenu Portal.

What this does not do

It does not negotiate or re-price. It makes sure no quote dies in silence and that your rep is in the conversation while the buyer is still deciding. What happens in that conversation is your team's work.

Put your unworked quotes back to work.

A short conversation, then a Go-to-Market Assessment that pulls every open quote into one pipeline and puts a number on what’s still winnable.

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