Create Quote | BigCommerce Developer Center

Creates a sales quote from the storefront and submits it to the B2B Edition control panel.

Depending on your store’s Quote settings configuration, this can be used anonymously to create a quote as a guest shopper, or authenticated with a B2C storefront customer or B2B Company user account. Quotes created with this endpoint share the same minimum required fields as the Create a Quote endpoint in the Server to Server API.

Draft Quotes

The Buyer Portal allows buyers to save “draft” quotes” that they can edit further until they are ready to submit the quote to their sales representative. The built-Buyer Portal uses local storage, via the Redux library, to store a draft quote’s details. This is different from quotes created within the B2B Edition control panel in Draft status, which is saved to the account itself and is visible to all backend users.

The Create a Quote endpoint should only be used once a quote is ready to submit to a sales representative. Your application must save quote details in its own storage in order to support draft quotes.

Equivalent Storefront GraphQL Mutation: quoteCreate.

Pricing Field Considerations

Note the following considerations related to pricing fields in the request:

Quotes created with this endpoint undergo a price validation check to prevent invalid prices. If the check fails, a BigCommerce API Error will be raised and logged, preventing quote creation.
- To create quotes with custom pricing, use Create a Quote Form (Server-to-Server).
The discount field is present in the request body and the productList array; however, the value must be 0, since quote discounts are supplied by the sales rep.
The offeredPrice field on each item in the productList array must be provided, but it must equal the basePrice value for that product, since it is meant to reflect the quoted price which should not be different at this stage.
The subtotal and grandTotal fields must be equal to the sum of each product’s offeredPrice multiplied by the quantity.

Creates a sales quote from the storefront and submits it to the B2B Edition control panel. Depending on your store's Quote settings configuration, this can be used anonymously to create a quote as a guest shopper, or authenticated with a B2C storefront customer or B2B Company user account. Quotes created with this endpoint share the same [minimum required fields](/developer/api-reference/rest/b2b/management/quotes#minimum-required-fields) as the Create a Quote endpoint in the Server to Server API. ### Draft Quotes The Buyer Portal allows buyers to save "draft" quotes" that they can edit further until they are ready to submit the quote to their sales representative. The built-Buyer Portal uses local storage, via the [Redux](https://redux.js.org/) library, to store a draft quote's details. This is different from quotes created within the B2B Edition control panel in Draft status, which is saved to the account itself and is visible to all backend users. The Create a Quote endpoint should only be used once a quote is ready to submit to a sales representative. Your application must save quote details in its own storage in order to support draft quotes. Equivalent Storefront GraphQL Mutation: `quoteCreate`. ### Pricing Field Considerations Note the following considerations related to pricing fields in the request: * Quotes created with this endpoint undergo a price validation check to prevent invalid prices. If the check fails, a `BigCommerce API Error` will be raised and logged, preventing quote creation. * To create quotes with custom pricing, use [Create a Quote Form (Server-to-Server)](/developer/api-reference/rest/b2b/management/quotes#create-a-quote-form). * The `discount` field is present in the request body and the `productList` array; however, the value must be 0, since quote discounts are supplied by the sales rep. * The `offeredPrice` field on each item in the `productList` array must be provided, but it must equal the `basePrice` value for that product, since it is meant to reflect the quoted price which should not be different at this stage. * The `subtotal` and `grandTotal` fields must be equal to the sum of each product's `offeredPrice` multiplied by the `quantity`.

Authentication

AuthorizationBearer

Authentication header

Header	Argument	Description
`Authorization`	`Bearer {{B2B_JWT_TOKEN}}`	You can obtain this token using the steps described in the REST Storefront API section[…]

### Authentication header | Header | Argument | Description | |:-------|:---------|:------------| |`Authorization`|`Bearer {{B2B_JWT_TOKEN}}`| You can obtain this token using the steps described in the [REST Storefront API](/developer/docs/b2b-edition/getting-started/authentication#rest-storefront-api) section[...]

Request

This endpoint expects an object.

bcCustomerIdintegerOptional

The unique ID for the customer account.

channelIdintegerOptional

The storefront channel ID associated with the quote. This is required if your store has multiple storefront channels. Use '1' for your store's default storefront channel.

companyIddoubleOptional

The unique identifier for the Company account associated with the quote. This field is required when creating a quote for a Company account.

contactInfoobjectOptional

currencyobjectOptional

discountdoubleOptional

The total value of discounts applied to the quote. This is presented as a fixed value instead of a percentage.

expiredAtstringOptional

Use ‘%m/%d/%Y’ format when entering the expiration date.

grandTotaldoubleOptional

The quoted total after discounts, shipping, and tax are applied.

isBackendUserenumOptional

Indicates whether the quote was created by a frontend user like a buyer or Super Admin, or it was created by a backend user like Sales Staff.

Allowed values:

legalTermsstringOptional

The quote's terms and conditions. Use the newline character to separate each line of text. Omitting this field or leaving it blank does not add your store's default terms and conditions to the quote. Instead, the quote will not display any terms.

notesstringOptional

The quote’s buyer-facing notes. Use the newline character to separate each line of text.

productListobjectOptional

quoteTitlestringOptional

The external title given to the quote.

referenceNumberstringOptional

An identifier for the quote that can be supplied by the sales rep or the buyer, such as a Purchase Order number.

shippingAddressobjectOptional

storeHashstringOptional

The unique store hash for the BigCommerce store.

subtotaldoubleOptional

The quoted total after discounts and before shipping and tax.

userEmailstringOptionalformat: "email"

The email address of the buyer associated with the quote.

Response

codeintegerDefaults to 200

HTTP Response Code

dataobject

messagestringDefaults to SUCCESS

Errors

400

Bad Request Error

Creates a sales quote from the storefront and submits it to the B2B Edition control panel.

Draft Quotes

Equivalent Storefront GraphQL Mutation: quoteCreate.

Pricing Field Considerations

Note the following considerations related to pricing fields in the request:

Quotes created with this endpoint undergo a price validation check to prevent invalid prices. If the check fails, a BigCommerce API Error will be raised and logged, preventing quote creation.
- To create quotes with custom pricing, use Create a Quote Form (Server-to-Server).
The discount field is present in the request body and the productList array; however, the value must be 0, since quote discounts are supplied by the sales rep.
The offeredPrice field on each item in the productList array must be provided, but it must equal the basePrice value for that product, since it is meant to reflect the quoted price which should not be different at this stage.
The subtotal and grandTotal fields must be equal to the sum of each product’s offeredPrice multiplied by the quantity.

1	import requests
2
3	url = "https://api-b2b.bigcommerce.com/api/v2/rfq"
4
5	payload = {
6	"bcCustomerId": 123,
7	"channelId": 1,
8	"companyId": 123456,
9	"contactInfo": {
10	"companyName": "Great Buys Incorporated",
11	"email": "mcurie@greatbuysinc.com",
12	"name": "Marie Curie",
13	"phoneNumber": "(512) 333-3333"
14	},
15	"currency": {
16	"currencyCode": "USD",
17	"decimalPlaces": 2,
18	"decimalToken": ".",
19	"location": "left",
20	"thousandsToken": ",",
21	"token": "$"
22	},
23	"discount": 0,
24	"grandTotal": 1250,
25	"isBackendUser": True,
26	"productList": [
27	{
28	"sku": "SAN-PL",
29	"basePrice": 25,
30	"discount": 0,
31	"offeredPrice": 25,
32	"quantity": 50,
33	"productId": 12345,
34	"variantId": 74768,
35	"imageUrl": "https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-1234abcd/products/12345/images/3080/sansevieria-1__58536__96021.1736973469.500.659.jpg?c=1",
36	"orderQuantityMaximum": 0,
37	"orderQuantityMinimum": 0,
38	"productName": "Sansevieria",
39	"options": [
40	{
41	"optionId": 3780,
42	"optionName": 3780,
43	"optionLabel": "12",
44	"optionValue": 18863
45	}
46	]
47	}
48	],
49	"quoteTitle": "Plants Bulk Request",
50	"referenceNumber": "04292025-0001",
51	"shippingAddress": {
52	"address": "512 Bluebonnet Lane",
53	"apartment": "Suite 100",
54	"city": "Austin",
55	"country": "United States",
56	"state": "Texas",
57	"zipCode": "78750"
58	},
59	"storeHash": "1234abcd",
60	"subtotal": 1250,
61	"userEmail": "mcurie@greatbuysinc.com"
62	}
63	headers = {
64	"Authorization": "Bearer <token>",
65	"Content-Type": "application/json"
66	}
67
68	response = requests.post(url, json=payload, headers=headers)
69
70	print(response.json())

1	{
2	"code": 200,
3	"data": {
4	"quoteId": 123456,
5	"quoteUrl": "https://mybcstore.com/#/quoteDetail/123456?date=1745942332"
6	},
7	"message": "SUCCESS"
8	}