Quote from a link
Paste a link, and Sammy quotes from what the page says
Got a product page, a spec sheet or the builder’s finishes schedule? Paste the link into your quote and tell Sammy what it’s for: “follow their schedule for the wet areas”, “use this tile instead”, “match this look”. He reads the page and uses it the way you asked, and shows you where it came from so you can check.
What it does
A lot of what goes into a quote lives on someone else’s website: the tile the client picked, the mixer the builder specified, the install guide for the product. Instead of copying sizes and prices across by hand, you send Sammy the link and say what you want done with it.
He reads the page with your words as the question, so he pulls out what you asked about: a schedule, sizes, a colour, a rule or a price. A link can be almost anything: a product page, a spec sheet or install guide, a set of plans, part of a standard or the building code, a council page, a builder’s job site or a colour board.
How it works
- Paste the link where you’re working. Put it in the job description when you start a new quote, or in the quote’s chat. You can send up to three links at a time.
- Say what it’s for. “Two bathrooms at 12 Smith St. Finishes are on the builder’s site, follow their schedule for the wet areas.”
- Sammy reads it. You’ll see Reading the link… for a few seconds.
- He uses it the way you said. If you said “follow their schedule”, he follows it. If you said “match this look”, he works out what it takes.
- Check the source. Under his reply there’s a small button with the website’s name. Tap it to open the page and check it yourself.
Where you can send a link
- When you start a quote. Put the link in the job description on the New estimate screen, with what you want done with it.
- In the quote’s chat, on Adjust. “Use this tile instead” or “the client wants the deck to look like this”.
- In the quote’s chat, on Ask. “Is this the right mixer for mains pressure?” Ask never changes your quote. It just answers from the page.
Sammy reads each link once and keeps what it said with the quote, so when he builds the rest of the quote or you change it later, every part works from the same read. Want something else from a page he’s already read? Just ask, like “What does that page say about the 90 mm one?”, and he goes back to it with your new question.
When the page has a price
A price on a page might be what you pay, or what you want to charge the client. So when it matters and you haven’t said, Sammy asks how you want it charged: at cost with your usual markup, as is, or another way. When he’s building a new quote and can’t stop to ask, he makes a sensible call and tells you what he assumed, so you can change it.
The easiest way to skip the question is to say it up front, like “supply this mixer at cost”. Line prices in your quote are always ex GST, and Sammy checks whether the page’s price includes GST. For the materials you buy all the time, Sammy can price from your own supplier lists instead: see supplier pricing.
Sammy never takes orders from a page
A web page is someone else’s writing, and some pages hide text meant to trick AI assistants. Sammy treats everything on a page as information about the job, never as instructions. Only you tell him what to do.
- If he spots hidden instructions on a page, he tells you he ignored them.
- He won’t copy bank details, phone numbers, email addresses or links from a page into your quote unless you gave them to him.
- He only puts a link on a line in your quote if you sent it or he read that page.
Questions tradies ask
What if Sammy can’t open the page?
He tells you, and nothing in your quote comes from it. He never guesses what’s on a page he couldn’t read. Paste the details into the chat, or attach the page or the plans as a PDF, and he’ll use that instead.
Which pages can’t he read?
Some websites don’t let him in: a few of the big hardware retailers block readers, so their product pages often can’t be opened. He also can’t open pages behind a login or a paywall, which includes most standards on the Standards Australia and Standards New Zealand sites, or Google Drive and Google Docs links. For a standard, paste the clause you need.
Will he follow links on the page?
No. If a page links to another page you need, like a category page that links to the product, Sammy tells you and asks you to send that link. He only opens links you sent him, pages he’s already read and, on Ask, pages his own web search found.
Can I just ask a question about a product?
Yes. Use Ask in the quote’s chat, like “Is this the right mixer for mains pressure?” with the link. Ask never changes your quote.