Estimating, scheduling, tickets, proofs, shipping and billing — one system. Work moves itself. Nobody chases paper.
30 minutes, on one of your own jobs. Nothing to install.
One system, floor to office
Most jobs live in six places that never agree. In Quent, every order has one thread — a hand-off is a step, not a phone call and a hope. Pick a stage.
Auto-estimating
Customers say what they want, not what you call it. Quent matches it to your catalogue, builds routed, priced lines, and drops a draft in your estimate queue.
Morning — we need 250 tri-fold brochures for the spring open house, same stock as the ones you did for us in March, plus 2 pull-up banners for the entrance. Open house is the 18th so we'd need them the week before. Can you also do them with that satin finish we talked about?
Thanks — Dana, Ridgeway Outfitters
“Satin finish” isn't in your catalogue. Satin AQ and Soft-touch laminate are close — so it asks instead of guessing.
What's inside
Click any module for a quick demo. 18 modules, 15 you can switch off — run what you need, keep your other tools for the rest.
Also in the box: scheduled reports, automated preflight, gang runs, a floor wall display and financial statements.
Shipped into the alpha recently
The floor
A released job's ticket prints once, at the machine running its first step — one sheet, not one at every bench. Every station after that runs off its own screen.
Works with what you already run
Adopt Quent one module at a time — switch one off and keep the tool you have. Accounting, say: keep the books in Quent, or hand your bookkeeper one journal entry per period.
The API
One narrow, versioned API. An order posted to it becomes an ordinary job — routed, scheduled, ticketed and invoiced.
Three signed events come back, so your store can update the buyer without polling.
Modular Every module is a switch. Adopt Quent at your pace, not all at once.
Estimating
Every line traces to a rate, a material and a machine. The price you quote is what the job costs — nothing shifts when it becomes a work order.
Your words
“Job” and “press” suit a printer, not a sign shop. Rename eight nouns once and every screen follows — kiosk, ticket, customer quote, spreadsheet headers.
Nouns, not departments. Call an estimate a bid and Estimating keeps its name — nobody needs a screen called “Line Itemsing”.
We're in alpha. No borrowed testimonials.
Pricing
A tier for your floor, seats for your desks. Every plan runs quote to cash — no caps on quotes or invoices.
Full Floor costs less — one system, with books that post from the job. Competitors' published prices, September 2026.
Indicative alpha pricing. Alpha shops lock in founding pricing for 12 months after launch. If a number changes, you'll hear it from us first.
Operators just scan — they don't pay office prices.
Onboarding loads your customers, materials, presses and open jobs, so your first quote prices right.
Reporting, preflight, gang runs, wall display and statements come with Full Floor and up.
Not built yet: card payments, live two-way accounting sync, carrier labels, our own storefront, multiple locations.
Questions
No. Switch off any module and keep the tool you already use — accounting and shipping included.
It drafts. The request becomes a draft estimate in your queue, with questions for anything it couldn't match. A person sends every quote. Read with Claude, or Quent's own no-AI matcher.
Five estimating profiles: commercial print, wide format, apparel, promo products and general job shop — so nobody quoting shirts gets asked about press sheets. Quote it, run it, invoice it? Quent fits.
Yes — job, part, estimate, quote, order, customer, machine and shop. Rename once; it changes everywhere.
Office staff are seats. Floor operators are free and unlimited. Customers never count.
Yes. API orders become ordinary jobs, and three signed events (released, shipped, invoiced) keep your site updated. No storefront of our own yet — it's on the roadmap.
No. The kiosk runs in any browser, tickets print on your printer, and a phone camera scans.
Weeks, not months. We load your customers, materials and presses so estimates price right on day one, then train the floor. One-time fee: $1,500 Single Shop, $3,500 Full Floor, $5,000 Trade.
On Trade: a first response within 4 business hours by email, Monday–Friday 8am–6pm ET — plus dedicated account support. Single Shop and Full Floor get email support, answered by the next business day.
quintessence · /kwin ˈtesəns/ · noun
The fifth essence. Not one of the other four — the one they were all for.
Cyan, magenta, yellow, black print anything. None of them know what the job cost, where it is, or whether it shipped. The fifth one isn't an ink.
Quent, essentially.
30 minutes. One of your real jobs, quote to invoice.
Estimating
Estimate from your real presses, stock and rates — makeready, run speed and spoilage included. Margin shows as you go. Accepted online, it becomes a work order.
Scheduling
Every job gets a machine. Mark a press down and its queue moves to the backup — nothing stranded, nothing re-typed.
Job tickets
Release a job and its ticket autoprints at the first machine — barcode and all, no clicks. Scan to start, scan to close; real time is logged against standard. No printer at that press? The office prints it from the print queue. Every step after runs off the station's screen.
Art & proofing
Customers approve art from a link — no attachments, no version mix-ups. Every decision is on the record, and the floor prints only the approved version.
Billing
Invoice on ship or take a deposit — numbers straight off the work order. Record payments, issue credits, close the month.
Inventory & purchasing
Every run draws from stock, so levels are real. Cross a reorder point and Quent drafts the PO — you just approve it. Receive it and it's back on the shelf.
Auto-estimating
An enquiry goes in; a costed, routed draft comes out, matched to your templates. Unknowns become questions, not guesses. An estimator sends it — or doesn't.
Shipping & packing
Pack from your shelf of standard cartons. Quent counts the boxes, weighs each one — part box included — and rates it on your card and a connected carrier's. You pick the rate.
Integrations & API
A storefront posts an order; it becomes an ordinary job. Three signed events go back — released, shipped with tracking, invoiced. Test keys touch nothing, and every delivery is logged.
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