Client Quote vs. Internal Job Cost Split

When you need a quote for a client without showing my costs, or an estimate that hides my hourly rate while still letting you check your customer quote versus job cost, this tool splits the job into two separate views. The client preview shows only your optional quote number and client reference, chosen line labels, optional quantity text, line selling amounts, exclusive sales tax, total, and any price-to-price revision difference. Your materials, waste, hourly rate, profit, and quote floor (computed with the same integer-cent rules as /tools/en/custom-order-quote-floor/) stay strictly on the internal panel.

Build the client-visible quote

Quote Number (optional text shown to client) Client Reference (optional text shown to client)

Total Quote Price ($) Exclusive Sales Tax Rate (%, default 0) Previous Version Quote Price ($, optional)

Client-Visible Quote Preview

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Internal panel — never included in the client preview

Material Cost ($) Material Waste Rate (%) Fixed Cost ($) Travel / On-Site Cost ($) Overhead Cost ($) Labor Hours (leave blank if no labor; must be greater than 0 if entered) Target Hourly Rate ($/hr) Processing Fee Rate (%, from 0 to under 100)

Internal Quote Floor—

Internal Estimated Profit—

Internal Actual Hourly Pay—

Internal Minimum Increase Needed Above Previous Price—

What This Tool Does

Leak-Free Client Preview: The client text outputs only Quote, optional Quote Number, optional Client reference, Date, chosen line descriptions, optional quantity text, line selling amounts, Subtotal, exclusive sales tax (when greater than 0%), Total, Compared to revision delta, and the footer Thank you for your business.
Strict Sum Verification: Client-visible line amounts must add up exactly to your quote price before a preview is generated; the tool never auto-scales or alters your lines to force a match.
Side-by-Side Revision and Floor Tracking: Compare a revised quote against the previous version's price for the client while keeping your new internal quote floor and minimum required increase private on the internal panel.

How to Use It

Enter client-visible details and quote price: Add an optional quote number and client reference, then each client line label, optional quantity phrase, and selling amount in dollars and cents. Enter the total quote price (and optional previous version price).
Verify the line sum and exclusive tax: Confirm that your client line amounts add up exactly to the quote price and enter an optional exclusive sales tax rate (default 0%) to calculate the client subtotal, tax, and total.
Check the internal panel and review the preview: Inspect your internal quote floor (shared with /tools/en/custom-order-quote-floor/), profit, and actual hourly pay on the internal panel, and verify that the client preview contains zero cost, waste, hour, or floor figures.

Worked Example

For a first-version cookie order (T009-01) priced at $180.00 with 0% sales tax, the client preview shows one visible line totaling $180.00, a Subtotal of $180.00, no tax line (omitted when the tax rate is 0%), a Total of $180.00, no revision row, and the footer Thank you for your business. When the order is revised to $240.00 against the previous $180.00 price (T009-07), the client preview displays a Compared to price difference of +$60.00 ($240.00 − $180.00). Meanwhile, the internal panel tracks the initial floor of $171.73, the revised internal floor of $221.39, and the internal minimum increase needed of $41.39 ($221.39 new floor minus $180.00 previous price)—none of which ever appear in the client preview.

Limitations & Exceptions

If you add an exclusive sales tax rate—for example, in T009-05 where a $180.00 quote at an illustrative 8% rate shows $14.40 in tax and a $194.40 total—your internal floor remains $171.73; this page does not look up state tax rates or offer tax-included pricing.
The client preview never prints a Valid until date, a 7-day expiration date, or a pickup date, and the footer prints only Thank you for your business. with no watermark.
If your quote price is below the internal floor, the client preview is still generated as long as the visible line amounts match the quote price, while the internal panel flags the below-floor status.
If internal cost inputs are incomplete, the client preview still works when line amounts match the quote price, and internal dollar metrics remain blank rather than showing a $0.00 floor.
Do not enter client legal names, street addresses, phone numbers, or email addresses; any optional client reference or quote number can be left blank and is never placed in the page URL.

Frequently Asked Questions

Which fields are allowed to appear in the client-visible quote preview?

The client preview can only contain the fixed labels Quote, Quote Number, Client, Date, Subtotal, Total, and Compared to (when a previous price is provided), plus your optional quote number and client reference, your client line descriptions, optional free-text quantity phrases, line selling amounts, an exclusive tax line when the tax rate is above 0%, the version-to-version price difference, and the footer Thank you for your business. Material costs, waste rates, labor hours, hourly rates, profit, and floor numbers are blocked from the client text.

What happens if my client line amounts do not add up to the quote price?

The tool withholds the client preview and displays a mismatch status until the sum of your client-visible line amounts exactly equals the quote price. It will never automatically adjust, scale, or pad your line items to force the numbers to match.

On a revised quote, why is the client difference different from the internal minimum increase?

The client revision row (Compared to) shows only the current quote price minus the previous quote price—such as +$60.00 when raising a quote from $180.00 to $240.00 in T009-07 (or a Unicode minus − if a price drops). The internal minimum increase ($41.39 in T009-07) measures how much you must add to the old $180.00 price just to reach your new $221.39 cost floor, so it stays on the internal panel.

Why is there no expiration date on the quote, and why doesn't sales tax change my floor?

The client renderer omits Valid until dates and pickup dates so the preview never commits you to an unverified schedule or a 7-day window. Sales tax is an exclusive display layer added on top of your selling price (Subtotal plus Tax equals Total), so changing the tax rate—such as the 8% example in T009-05 that adds $14.40 tax for a $194.40 total—leaves your $171.73 floor, profit, and actual hourly pay unchanged. To calculate or adjust your underlying cost floor from scratch, visit /tools/en/custom-order-quote-floor/.