Comparisons
Bliqat and Word and Excel
The templates you already have — the most common way to quote
Bliqat vs a quote template in Word and Excel — the difference in time and money
A well-made quote template in Word or Excel costs nothing and goes further than many like to admit. The differences that matter are three: the time per quote (30–60 minutes in a template against under a minute for a first draft), the risk of error where VAT and the preliminary ROT deduction are worked out by hand, and the fact that the template remembers nothing — every quote starts inside the last one. If you send a couple of quotes a month, the template is enough. If you send more, or have lost jobs on response time, volume is what decides.
Choose Bliqat when…
- You send more than a handful of quotes a month and price the same kind of job over and over.
- You have lost a job because the answer took three days.
- You want the preliminary ROT deduction and the VAT to come out right without working them out by hand.
- You want the customer to be able to sign on their phone instead of printing, signing and scanning.
Choose Word and Excel when…
- You send a couple of quotes a month on repeat jobs — then software will not pay for itself in time.
- You have a template that already contains everything you need and a routine you trust.
- You do not want to spend anything on tools right now. That is a perfectly legitimate answer, and a template is infinitely better than no quote.
Feature by feature
| Feature | Bliqat | Word and Excel |
|---|---|---|
| Time to a finished draft | Under a minute from a description of the job | 30–60 minutes: find the last quote, swap the text, redo the sums |
| How you start | Text, voice or a photo — the chat is the interface | Open the last quote and type over it |
| Working out the price | Your article register and your hourly rates; standard times where a value is missing | You — by hand, or with formulas you maintain yourself |
| VAT | Worked out automatically, on the right side of labour/materials | Manual; a common place for mistakes |
| Preliminary ROT | Preliminary ROT worked out automatically: 30% of labour, cap per person, split across several owners | Manual, and it requires you to keep labour and materials apart yourself |
| Digital signing | BankID signing included — the customer gets a link, no app and no account | No — print, sign, scan or email a "yes" |
| Variations (ÄTA) | Variations as their own part of the job, with their own signing and their own invoice lines | A new document, its own numbering, its own follow-up |
| Price memory | Article register with price memory — correct a price once and Bosse remembers it | No — every quote starts inside the last one |
| Follow-up | Chasers and a view of what is out | Your inbox and your memory |
| Invoice from the quote | Invoice emailed with a PDF and a public invoice view, chasers, payments recorded, credit notes | The figures get keyed in again somewhere else |
| Price | SEK 990/month for the whole company, 842 on annual billing | SEK 0 — you already have it |
Do the sums before you decide
Time your next three quotes in your current routine. Clock from sitting down to the quote being sent, and include the searching and the arithmetic. Multiply by the number of quotes you send in a month and put your own hourly cost on the total. Now you have the number any tool has to beat.
Then add what the stopwatch does not show: the jobs you did not get because the answer was late. Quotes that arrive the same day win more often than those that arrive three days later, because customers frequently say yes to the first reasonable answer. That item is hard to measure and tends to be the biggest.
What the template is genuinely good at
A template you know inside out has zero learning time, works without a connection, and can never change under you. If you have also built in your terms, your scope description and what is not included, you are already ahead of many who bought software and never filled it in.
Switch when volume demands it — not because someone says templates are outdated. And keep the template as a backup; you will not need it, but it costs nothing to have.
What you actually get instead
In Bliqat you describe the job in a chat box — in text, by voice on the drive home, or by photographing the site. Bosse prices it with your prices, sets the labour time against the industry standard times where your register has no value, works out the preliminary ROT deduction and presents a complete quote for you to review. Tell him to send it and the customer gets an email with a link and BankID signing.
Then the same case carries on: the work order is created from the quote, a variation becomes its own part with its own signing, and the invoice is built from the same data with the ROT hours frozen as they stood at acceptance. You key nothing in a second time — that is the part no template can give you.
Common questions
Is a quote template in Word enough?
If you send a couple of quotes a month on repeat job types: yes. Software pays for itself through volume — the more quotes, the more time saved. Clock your next three quotes and do the sums; that usually settles it.
Can I move my prices over from Excel?
Yes. Article registers can be imported, including large ones, and Bosse remembers every price you correct. Ask for help with the import during the trial so you see the data quality before you pay.
Does the preliminary ROT deduction come out right automatically?
Yes — labour and materials are kept apart, the deduction is worked out as 30% of the labour cost with a cap per person, and several owners are split. That is exactly the separation that is easy to get wrong by hand in a template.
Last reviewed 2026-08-13. Prices and features are checked at every review.
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