Products & Services vs Supplier Catalogue V2

Fast quoting usually starts with repeatable work. A plumbing company may quote the same inspection fee, call-out charge, mixer tap replacement, or maintenance package many times a week. Those repeatable lines should not depend on a supplier network, a connector, or a paid add-on. They should be owned by the business.

Products & Services is your own quoting foundation

Products & Services is the tenant-owned list inside SendQuote. It stores the services, parts, packages, descriptions, and standard rates that your team actually uses. It is the everyday quoting layer and is part of the core workflow.

• Use it for your standard jobs, service packages, recurring materials, and common descriptions.
• Import or maintain items so field teams do not type every line from scratch.
• Keep your own rates and business-specific wording under your control.
• Use it even when supplier catalogue suggestions are not enabled.

Catalogue V2 is a paid supplier suggestion layer

Supplier Catalogue V2 is different. It is designed for shared supplier-global data, enriched offer information, stock or lead-time signals, quality labels, and future supplier connector readiness. It can help a quote editor discover supplier-backed items, but it should not silently override the provider's own catalogue or finalize a price by itself.

That is why Quixo keeps tenant-owned Products & Services first. Supplier-global suggestions are optional, paid or entitlement-controlled, and human-confirmed before they become quote lines.

Why the separation matters

Mixing these two layers would create confusion. A provider's negotiated price, service package, or local install rule should not be treated like public supplier data. A supplier suggestion should not pretend to be a final quote decision. Quixo separates the two so the quote builder can stay fast without losing control.

• Tenant items stay first because they reflect the business's own operating model.
• Supplier suggestions are labelled so the user can judge trust, freshness, and relevance.
• Quote totals remain server-calculated after the human chooses the line.
• Accepted quotes remain operational truth and are not edited by catalogue updates.

A simple rule for teams

If your team sells it often, put it in Products & Services. If you need supplier-backed discovery, freshness labels, or connector-ready catalogue intelligence, use Catalogue V2 when your plan enables it. Both help the quote, but they solve different problems.