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A quote in PRINTOOLS has three levels. Understanding them is the whole skill.
Groups exist because one order is usually several products. Tees with a two-colour front, plus caps with an embroidered logo, belong on one quote but price separately. Each group carries its own decorations. Lines are the garments. A line points at a garment variant — a style, colour and size — and a quantity. Decorations attach to the group, not the line, because the print is applied to the product, not to each shirt individually. Position and method come from your decoration settings.

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Building one

1

Pick the customer

Choose an existing customer or create one inline. The contact you select is who receives the quote.
2

Add a group

Name it for what it is — “Staff tees”, “Event caps”. This name is what the customer sees.
3

Add garment lines

Search the catalogue by style code or name. If a supplier is connected, you are seeing live wholesale pricing and stock.
4

Attach decorations

Method, position, colour count. This is what drives the decoration cost.
5

Check the price

Sell price comes from wholesale cost plus your markup rules, plus decoration cost. Override any line if the job warrants it.
6

Send

The customer gets a link. Quotes carry a validity period from your quote settings.

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After it is sent

Duplicate is how repeat work happens — copy last year’s quote, change the quantities. Convert to job moves an accepted quote onto the production board. The job keeps a link back to the quote it came from, so if the quote is later corrected you can re-sync the job rather than rebuilding it. Invoice generates from the quote, not the job, so what you bill matches what the customer accepted.
Pricing is captured when the quote is built. Changing a markup rule afterwards does not rewrite quotes you have already sent — duplicate the quote to price it again at today’s rules.