Shopfitter quoting app.
Quotes in under 30 seconds
Describe the fitout or upload a plan, and the AI prices consent, joinery, services and compliance in NZD at current New Zealand rates, with 15% GST already in the total.
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What's the best quoting app for shopfitters in New Zealand?
Insta Quotes is an AI quoting app for New Zealand and Australian shopfitters that turns a job description into an itemised, GST-ready quote in under 30 seconds; plans start at $29 AUD a month, billed in AUD even in New Zealand. A sample Insta Quotes shopfitter quote itemises the job into consent, joinery, surfaces, services, ceiling, comply and labour lines.
How much does Insta Quotes cost for a shopfitter in New Zealand?
Insta Quotes plans are billed in AUD: Tier 1 $29 AUD, Tier 2 $59 AUD and Tier 3 $99 AUD a month. New accounts start with a free 7-day trial, capped at 7 quotes in total rather than per month, with no credit card required, so shopfitters in New Zealand can quote before paying.
What should a New Zealand shopfitting quote include?
Consent, demolition and strip-out, joinery, services rough-in, ceilings and lighting, finishes and compliance sign-off each go on their own line, with 15% GST alongside your NZBN and IRD GST number. Commercial clients are usually working to a lease commencement or an opening date, so put a programme against the price with the consent and inspection timeframes visible, since those are the parts you do not control. Name what is landlord’s work and what is tenant’s work, state who supplies equipment, and say what happens if the landlord’s base build is not ready on the date the programme assumes.
What does a food premises fitout have to comply with in New Zealand?
A food business operates under the Food Act to a registered food control plan, and the fitout is what makes that plan workable: surfaces that can be cleaned, coving so junctions can be cleaned, hand basins where they are needed, extraction over cooking, and separation between food handling and everything else. A verifier checks against the plan, not against your drawings, so the fitout has to be built to what the operator registered. Separately, turning a shop into a cafe is usually a change of use for building consent purposes, which brings fire safety and accessibility requirements with it. Quote the consent and the compliance work as their own lines, because they set the programme as much as the joinery does.
Does the AI know New Zealand shopfitting pricing?
Yes. Quotes are priced in NZD against current New Zealand rates — counter and back-of-house joinery, partitions and suspended ceilings, lighting, food-safe surfaces and coving, services rough-in, shopfront glazing and signage — with 15% GST applied rather than Australia’s 10%. Consent, change-of-use requirements and compliance sign-off are priced as work rather than folded into a margin, because on a commercial fitout they are a substantial and visible part of the job.
How do I protect a fitout price against the landlord’s programme?
Name the dependencies and date them. A fitout sits inside someone else’s building, and the things that delay it are usually not yours: base build not complete, power or water not connected, the consent still with the council, or access restricted to hours the centre allows. Price against stated preconditions — premises available on a given date, services live, safe access during agreed hours — and put a standing-time rate in the quote for the case where the site is not ready. Also say whether after-hours or weekend work is included, because in a tenanted building it is often required and it is not the same labour rate. A fitout quoted as one number with no dependencies named is the one that ends in an argument about whose delay it was.
Does Insta Quotes work for shopfitters anywhere in New Zealand?
Yes. Insta Quotes prices shopfitters quotes in NZD to current New Zealand rates nationwide, including Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, Hamilton, Tauranga, Dunedin and regional areas, with 15% GST applied. Generate and send a branded quote wherever the job is.