As an e-commerce marketing and webstore manager it would be beneficial if Sana enabled our customers to self generate quotes that include products that are out of stock or special order.
As a webstore with over 2000+ products, some of our speciality items are only ordered in when a customer requires them. However the webstore's current functionality does not allow customers to add any out of stock items to their quotes. This means customers then have to call us and ask us to prepare a quote for them. Giving our customers the ability to generate their own quotes was one of the core reasons we implemented this website and the lack of this feature directly contradicts this purpose.
It is also important to note that due to long buying processes quotes may be prepared up to 6 months prior to a project requiring stock and so the ability to generate a quote in isolation from stock levels assists customers to plan ahead for lead times when specialised stock may need to be ordered.