How to send a quote for owner's approval in LiveFleet?

How to send a quote for owner's approval in LiveFleet?

Select the quote in Purchase PAL 

Go to Purchase PAL > Transactions > Request for Quote

In Pending RFQ tab, a label named QUOTE for all the RFQs whose pricing has been completed will be marked in Green. User must select these quote(s) and click on Send for Owner Approval button in order to send the selected quote(s) to LiveFleet for owner approval. Once the quote has been sent for approval, a label named COMPARE for the respective RFQ will be marked in Orange




Note: An e-mail alert will be sent to the respective user (owner) when a quote is sent for owner approval from Purchase PAL.

Quotation Approval in LiveFleet

LiveFleet > Purchase > Quotation Approval



Once a requisition has been made and request for quote has been raised from the Office, it is through this page which the owner will be able to approve the quote.

LiveFleet - Quote Overview


This page is designed to get an overview of all the created quotations. By default, Quote Overview page will populate all the RFQs which are pending for approval.

To view all the RFQs or the approved RFQs, select All or Approved tabs.



Select the RFQ to be approved and click on the Compare icon for navigating to the Quote Comparison page.

LiveFleet - Quote Comparison

All the received quotes will get listed in the grid. On hovering the mouse over each vendor, a star icon appears on top of the vendor. If there are multiple vendors in Quote Comparison page, make use of this star icon to select a vendor as the base vendor and compare the quotes with this base vendor.



Click on the Settings button for additional settings available for quote comparison.


  1. Show Fields: User can define the additional columns to be displayed based on the settings in this section.
  2. Max. no. of vendors: Specify the number of vendors that can be compared at a time.
  3. Comparison based on: Mention whether the user want to compare the quote based on Quoted Quantity or RFQ Quantity option.
  4. Fill Un-Quoted items: Select the required option to fill the un-quoted item’s price with Lowest Quote, Highest Quote or Average Quote.
  5. Best Quote based on: Choose Price, Delivery Time or Manual option in order to select the best quote manually or based on lowest price/ delivery time.
  6. Save & Apply: Click this button to save and apply this setting permanently for the particular user.
  7. Apply: Click this button to apply the corresponding settings for this quote approval.

After setting all the additional settings, click on the Compare button to see the changes in the grid. If the user wants to compare the quote manually, make a tick mark corresponding to the quote to be approved. After comparing the quote, the user can approve the quote by clicking the Approve button. While approving the quote, a pop up appears to provide the remarks (which is not needed to be mandatorily filled).
Once the user has approved the quote, the status of the quote will be changed to Approve, and this will be removed from the pending list.

Note: This approved quote will then get listed under the PO Not Created tab in the Request for Quote page of Purchase PAL.

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