CPQ guides & comparisons
Find your next step from spreadsheets to CPQ.
Start with the quoting problem you want to solve. These guides help you assess the fit, prepare a useful pilot, and compare software against the work your team actually does.
Getting started
Manufacturing CPQ software
Manufacturing CPQ for doors, frames, windows, louvers and grilles: import your price books, price every schedule line and send quotes customers accept online.
Excel product configurator
Turn your Excel price book into a product configurator: size grids, adders and footnotes become validated, priced quotes, with no VBA or formulas to rebuild.
Door configurator demo
Try a live hollow metal door and frame configurator, no signup. Type sizes the way a schedule does, change the label and lite, and see why a choice is blocked.
How it works
See the workflow from door and frame price books to priced openings, door schedule import and a branded project quote.
FAQ
Answers about supported price books, door schedule import, pricing, customer trials and the current scope of ReadyVariant for door and frame manufacturers.
Contact
Contact Aswin, founder of ReadyVariant, to discuss a pilot for your hollow-metal door and frame price books and door schedules.
Hollow metal door & frame CPQ
Quote Division 08 hollow-metal doors and frames from your own price books: import the door schedule, hardware sets and 08 11 13 spec, then issue branded quotes.
Architectural louver CPQ
Quote architectural louvers from your own per-square-foot price book: minimum areas, free area, multi-section units and mullions, finishes and screens, from the louver schedule.
Commercial window CPQ
Quote commercial windows from your own price book: united-inch and per-square-foot pricing, glazing and finish adders, mulling and minimums, from the window schedule.
Air grille & register CPQ
Quote grilles, registers and diffusers from your own price book: neck-size brackets, face sizes, dampers, borders and finishes, from the engineer's air device schedule.
Integrations & API
Send accepted orders from ReadyVariant to your ERP, accounting package or CRM with signed webhooks, a read-only API and JSON or CSV order exports. Works with Zapier, Make and Power Automate.
Security & data
How ReadyVariant stores price books and quotes, backs them up, uses AI, sends email, and handles export and deletion requests.
Free tools
Excel configurator template
Download a working Excel product configurator: dropdowns, a size-price lookup that rounds up, adders by unit, rule checks and a minimum charge. No macros.
Price book template
A free Excel price book template for manufacturers: series, size-price grids, adders with units, rules and footnotes, laid out so people and software can read it.
Door schedule template
A free Excel door schedule template: mark, size, leaves, hand, fire label, door, frame, hardware set and remarks, with dropdowns for hand and label.
United inch calculator
Work out united inches (width + height) for any window size, in feet-inches, inches or millimetres, with the area, perimeter and a price per united inch.
Louver free area calculator
Work out a louver’s face area, free area and sections from its size and published free-area percentage, or the width you need for a required free area.
Grille size calculator
Convert a grille or register neck size to its face size and back, from the border width, with sizes in inches, feet-inches or millimetres.
Door size chart
What door size codes like 3068, 3070 and 2868 mean, a chart of common commercial door sizes in feet-inches, inches and millimetres, and a converter.
Door handing chart
How to tell a door’s hand: LH, RH, LHR and RHR read from the outside, with a chart of all four and a quick check for your own door.
Buying guides
CPQ for small manufacturers
Evaluate CPQ for a small manufacturing business. Define a focused pilot, prepare product data, and measure the work needed to create a reliable quote.
Product configurator software
Compare product configuration software: selectors, price-book configurators, rules engines and visual configurators. Choose one around your data and quotes.
Manufacturing quoting software
Decide whether you need a quote template, product configurator, CPQ, or job-cost estimating tool. See how spreadsheet prices become customer quotes.
Setup guides
How to implement CPQ
A step-by-step plan for implementing CPQ at a manufacturer: choose the pilot, prepare price books, test known quotes, train estimators and measure the result.
Door schedule to quote
Import a door and frame schedule from CSV, Excel or the architect’s PDF, translate its codes, resolve exceptions and issue a quote opening by opening. What to expect and what to check.
Comparisons
ReadyVariant vs DriveWorks
Compare ReadyVariant and DriveWorks for manufacturing CPQ. Understand spreadsheet quoting versus CAD automation, visualization, and integrated workflows.
ReadyVariant vs Tacton
Tacton models complex engineered products. ReadyVariant quotes from the price book you already publish: size grids, adders and rules, with no product model to build. Compare complexity, data and BOM needs.
ReadyVariant vs Configure One
Configure One builds product models, BOMs and routings. ReadyVariant quotes straight from the price book you already publish, checked against past quotes, with accepted orders exported to your ERP. See which one your quoting needs.
ReadyVariant vs Salesforce CPQ
Salesforce CPQ is no longer sold to new customers. Compare Revenue Cloud Advanced and ReadyVariant for manufacturers who quote from price books and schedules.
ReadyVariant vs Epicor CPQ
Compare Epicor CPQ, formerly KBMax, with ReadyVariant: 3D visual configuration and CAD automation versus quoting schedules from the price books you publish.
ReadyVariant vs Infor CPQ
Compare Infor CPQ and ReadyVariant for manufacturers: 3D visuals, BOMs and routings versus pricing schedules from the price books you already publish.
New to CPQ?
Start with the manufacturing CPQ overview, then use the buying guides to distinguish product selection, configuration, pricing, and document creation. A clear description of the problem makes it easier to evaluate software and avoid building a process around features you do not need.
Ready to try your files?
Read the price-book guide, the schedule-to-quote walkthrough and the implementation checklist. Gather one door and frame series, a recent schedule and the quote you sent for it. The opening demo and a sample quote are available without signup.
See it with your own data.
Start with one spreadsheet and a result you already know.