HPC Cart
A quote-first shopping cart for small industrial suppliers, wholesale distributors, and custom-parts businesses. Let customers select products without public prices, then confirm customer-specific rates, quantity discounts, and delivery before payment.
A request a quote cart without public prices
One public price does not work for every business. A distributor may pay a different rate from a retail customer. A larger order may qualify for a volume discount. A custom part may need a drawing review, while a bulky shipment needs an actual freight quote.
HPC Cart gives customers a familiar way to select products, options, and quantities without requiring public prices or an immediate payment. Their selections become one organized inquiry for your team to review. Your business applies its pricing and confirms the details.
Instead of a generic contact message, receive an itemized request with product identifiers, selected options, quantities, customer details, and notes. Use a quote-only catalog or mix listed-price items with products quoted after review.
Select. Confirm. Pay.
1. Build the inquiry
Customers choose products, required options, and quantities. They review their list and send it with their contact details and project notes through your configured inquiry form.
2. Confirm the quote
Your team reviews the request, checks availability, applies the correct customer tier and quantity discounts, and confirms shipping, tax, scope, and terms.
3. Send the payment link
Once the amount is agreed, send an invoice and payment link through Nickel or another suitable provider. Verify payment through your provider before fulfillment.
Pricing review and invoicing remain with your business. The standard cart does not automatically identify account tiers, calculate negotiated discounts, generate invoices, or reconcile payments.
Made for businesses that quote before they sell.
Wholesale & distribution
Collect product lists without publishing separate retail, wholesale, and distributor rates. Review the account and order size before offering a price.
Custom parts & project supply
Gather SKUs, options, quantities, and notes before assessing drawings, materials, configuration, or production requirements.
Freight & variable costs
Confirm delivery costs, supplier availability, or current material prices before issuing an invoice for the delivered total.
Two ways to get HPC Cart.
HPC installation
Have HPC install and configure the cart on a compatible website. We review your platform, catalog, required options, inquiry form, and delivery needs before quoting the agreed setup.
Files for your own implementation
Receive the cart files and setup guidance for you or your developer to implement. This is a website component, not a hosted store or an installable plugin promised to work on every platform.
One-time payment. Your files to keep and use.
No recurring HPC Cart license fee and no requirement to keep paying HPC to use the delivered version. The quote defines the included configuration, deliverables, installation work, and any support.
Website hosting, email delivery, payment-processing fees, third-party services, future changes, and ongoing maintenance may have their own costs. A one-time purchase does not include unlimited future updates or lifetime support.
Keep your invoice and payment workflow.
HPC Cart is the inquiry layer, not a payment processor. With Nickel, your team can review a request and manually create the invoice and payment link using its supported tools. Other providers with payment links can fit the same general workflow, subject to their requirements.
The standard setup does not include an automated Nickel API integration. Payment-provider accounts, availability, features, and charges are separate. Review Nickel’s invoice-payment workflow and current provider pricing.
From a customer inquiry to a CRM-ready opportunity
Keep the details together, from the first request to the final quote. A separately developed HPC Cart integration could pass customer and project information into your CRM, reducing the need to retype an email before you can start reviewing the work.
For a CRM such as Pipedrive, the proposed workflow would find or create the appropriate contact, associate a company when relevant, and create a lead or deal in your selected workflow. Product selections, custom requests, quantities, dimensions, materials, delivery requirements, and notes could stay connected to that opportunity. A project does not need a SKU to start a useful conversation.
Capture the request
Customers describe what they need, choose products when applicable, and provide contact and project details in one organized inquiry.
Build the customer record
A configured connector could map those details to your CRM fields, assign the inquiry, and create a follow-up task for your team.
Review, quote, and follow through
Your team confirms specifications, freight, pricing, and terms. Optional workflow development could help draft the quote and customer email, with your approval before sending an invoice and provider-generated payment link.
For independent contractors, home-based businesses, farm operators, makers, and small suppliers, the goal is the same: spend less time moving information between systems and more time deciding how to deliver the work.
Development status: A Pipedrive connector is planned, not a shipped or connected feature of the standard cart or live demo. CRM integration is quoted separately and depends on your account access, field mapping, workflow, provider capabilities, and testing. Other CRMs require their own compatibility review. AI-assisted quoting and payment automation are optional, separately scoped work; human review remains part of the process.
From inquiry to shipment, with AI-assisted quoting.
The cart is the starting point. Through HPC Automation & Development, we can scope a back-office workflow around your catalog, approved pricing, invoice tools, and fulfillment process.
- Receive the inquiry. Collect the selected products, options, quantities, and customer requirements in one structured request.
- Prepare the quote with AI. Resolve the request against your approved catalog and pricing rules, including verified customer tiers and quantity discounts. Flag missing specifications, shipping costs, tax information, or availability for review rather than inventing a value.
- Review, approve, and send. Your team confirms the amount and terms. AI drafts the customer email with the approved quote or invoice. Add a matching payment link created through your provider, then approve the message before sending.
- Verify payment. Confirm the payment through the provider’s trusted dashboard or a supported authenticated integration before releasing the order.
- Start the order and ship. Prepare the order or coordinate the supplier, then send tracking when available. Any automated fulfillment actions require their own agreed setup and testing.
This is an optional, separately scoped workflow, not a connected feature of the current demo or a standard cart-only purchase. AI quoting, invoice creation, email sending, payment verification, and shipping automation depend on your systems and approved integrations. Any recurring third-party or AI usage costs are separate from the one-time cart purchase.
Built for industrial supply and custom manufacturing inquiries
For example, a small supplier might sell standard components to retail buyers, repeat wholesale accounts, and distributors. A customer can assemble the same product list regardless of account type, while the seller verifies the account and applies its approved rates privately. This is an example workflow, not a claim of automatic tier verification.
For a custom manufacturer, the inquiry can collect quantities and configuration notes before your team reviews dimensions, materials, or drawings in a follow-up. For bulky products, request the delivery location before committing to freight. The cart organizes the request; your team decides the price and whether the job fits.
For a closer look at this sales model, read how to sell online without showing prices. You can also see a live inquiry-cart implementation in the HPC equipment shop.
Test the complete inquiry and email-preview flow
In the interactive request a quote cart demo, add fictional products, select a size, change quantities, and compare hidden-price and listed-price modes. Fill fictional customer and shipping details, then select Submit Demo Inquiry to see the email your business could receive.
The email preview also explains a possible AI-assisted quote and invoice workflow. It does not send an email, call an AI service, create a payment link, or place an order. Use the sample-details button to try the form without entering personal information.
What happens after the inquiry arrives?
The request brings the details together. Your team reviews dimensions, materials, quantities, and freight before preparing a quote. Once approved, create an invoice and add a payment link through your chosen provider.
Human review comes before quote approval. CRM connectors, AI drafting, invoice creation, and payment-link automation are separately scoped development, not connected features of the current demo.
Questions before you start
Do I have to show product prices?
No. Use a quote-only catalog, show selected prices, or combine the two. Any listed subtotal is not the final delivered quote and excludes unpriced items.
Does it calculate my wholesale tiers and volume discounts?
Not automatically. Your business reviews the inquiry and applies its approved pricing. Automated pricing or account access would be a separate scoped project.
Will it work with my website?
Compatibility needs review. Tell us your platform, who maintains it, and how your catalog is managed. Live installations also need a reliable form and email-delivery setup, testing, and appropriate spam protection.
Is the demo placing real orders?
No. It uses fictional products and generates a sample inquiry locally. It does not send email, create an invoice, reserve stock, or take payment. The separate quote request below is a real inquiry to HPC about the cart service.
Tell us how your business sells.
Use the form below to request an HPC Cart quote. In your message, include HPC Cart, your website address and platform, approximate product count or type of custom work, any required options, and whether you want HPC installation or files for your own implementation. Tell us which details need human review, such as dimensions, materials, freight, or customer-specific pricing, and whether you use a CRM or invoice/payment provider.
This is a request for a scoped quote, not a purchase or payment commitment. Please do not send customer lists, confidential price sheets, passwords, or payment details.