n8n Workflow for Automated Quote Generation from a 12,000-Item Catalogn8n Workflow for Automated Quote Generation from a 12,000-Item Catalog
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A company was losing deals to its own quoting speed. Every request meant a manager opening the price catalog, finding the right items among 12,000 positions, calculating the quote by hand, and formatting it — often the better part of a full day. By the time the quote went out, the client had sometimes already moved on.
I built an n8n workflow connected to their Google Sheets catalog. Now one request triggers the whole thing: the workflow reads the request, pulls the right items and current prices from the catalog, runs the calculation, and returns a formatted, ready-to-send quote — no manual lookup, no spreadsheet math.
What used to take close to a day now takes under 15 minutes. The manager reviews and sends instead of building each quote from scratch. Quotes go out while the client is still deciding, not a day later when the moment has passed.
The speed came from removing the manual steps between a request and a ready answer — not from anyone working faster.
Tools: n8n, Google Sheets, API.
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