I am new to HubSpot, and the Quote Design Beta Editor is basically not useful at all. If this was a $2,000 a year software tool, then you'd have an excuse to state "use what we have," but when paying over $20,000 a year, your software's customization, which requires contracted coders, is poor customer service at best. Your product dev team should pride themselves in allowing direct customers to self-manage their customization to a large degree, not a small degree. To the project development team who coded it (Quote Designer) up, you should spend time with various salespeople and business owners. My feedback: Some line items require a very lengthy product description, and your inability to allow user column width control is a big miss. The one template that allows for a long product description omits the total of the unit "cost" time "quantity," forcing our customers to break out calculators to see what the line is actually costing them...add the line total to stop this oversite. The proposal/quote must state a business's Standard Terms and Conditions without having to type in a Snippet every time. An appended last page would work fine that is user-editable and saved in the template. This is a legal thing. HubSpot should have an Avatax configured Quote, Sales Order, and Invoice template. Just play with an Avatax configured instance, and you will see the issue is sales tax is a line item, not a tax sub-footer in the totals section. Your header templates gobble up a ton of real estate; insert some columns so you can provide more product line space on the first page. There are no page numbers to reference once printed/viewed. Some businesses require lengthy proposals/quotes that can be more than one page, so add page numbers and reference the selling company's name in the header/footer ... its a branding thing. As an FYI, I use sarcasm to get my point across; your product is awesome in so many ways. However, you'll always have room for improvement to ensure HubSpot is the best CRM and marketing tool, which is my intention here. Joe
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