If you've sent out a quote request to a few trades/suppliers and one of the recipients sends a direct email or phones you directly instead of going through the online portal to get the price and quote back to you, the following steps outline how you can enter the quote into Buildxact on their behalf.
Head to the relevant estimate.
Click on the Requests for Quotes tab.
Click on show recipients for the quote request in question.
Click view for the recipient in question
Click on Costings to view and edit the costings for that recipient's quote request.
Enter the price as needed.
Click Save & Close. Note that the recipient will receive a notification of the change, it advises them that you have changed the quote on their behalf.
Check the status box is set to submitted.
Click Save & Close.
You can now select this supplier's quote to be used in your quote if you want to use them.