Looking to automate quote creation and execution through your existing tech stack? The Generate Quote and Actions API allows you to integrate DealHub’s quoting engine directly into custom workflows, portals, and PLG environments. 

Generate Quote and Actions API - Seamless API-Driven Quoting

The Generate Quote and Actions API brings full automation to your quoting process. Instantly generate, submit, and sign quotes via API, reducing manual effort and accelerating deal cycles. Built for teams looking to embed DealHub’s quoting engine into custom portals, product experiences, or external workflows.

Key Benefits

• For E-commerce & In-Product (PLG): Integrate quoting directly into customer-facing websites, portals and product flows using DealHub-managed pricing and configurations.
• Automated Renewals: Trigger renewal quotes without manual intervention for consistency and speed.
• Flexible Integration: Connect seamlessly with your CRM, ERP, eCommerce, and PLG environments to fit complex workflows.

Core Capabilities

• Simulate a Quote: Retrieve line items and pricing via API.
• Generate a Quote: Create drafts, calculate pricing, publish a DealRoom, and initiate external signing.
• Execute Actions: Submit, publish, and sign quotes via API or UI for ultimate flexibility.

Architecture and Configuration Updates

We’ve introduced purpose-built updates to support API-driven quoting:

New Playbook Type: Playbook API 

Built for API-based quote creation with:

• No question dependencies or hidden logic. 
• External pricing engine and data source support.
• Validation of all API-provided inputs.

Quote Type API Configuration

• API-Only Generation: Quotes are exclusively created through API using Playbook API.
• Limited UI Adjustments: Quotes can be viewed and adjusted in the UI (discounts, certain fields),, but playbook selections cannot be changed.
• Supports Real-Time Pricing: Ensures accurate configuration updates in dynamic pricing environments.

Example Use Cases:

• E-commerce Portals: Automatically generate and display pricing and quotes within customer-facing portals for a real-time buying experience.
• In-Product Quoting (PLG): Enable self-service quotes directly from your product interface, with DealHub managing pricing logic in the background.
• Automated Renewal Workflows: Trigger renewal quotes without manual involvement, ensuring consistency and faster contract cycles.
• Partner Platforms: Allow external partners to generate and submit quotes securely via API, while maintaining governance and control.
• Custom Approval Flows: Integrate quote actions into custom approval or CRM workflows, reducing context-switching for sales and operations teams.

Admin Configuration Note:

This feature requires setup of a dedicated Playbook API and associated quote types. Admin users can review API documentation or reach out to Customer Success for guided enablement support.

Pricing Information:

This capability is not included in core DealHub pricing. Pricing will be determined in consultation with your Customer Success Manager. Please contact your CSM if you are interested in access or implementation guidance.

Why This Matters: 

For organizations scaling their revenue operations, the Generate Quote and Actions API offers the flexibility to embed quoting capabilities directly into the selling ecosystem. It provides centralized control, real-time data accuracy, and supports evolving business models across all channels.

Next Steps: 

For setup guidance, configuration best practices, and help getting started? To learn more about pricing or implementation, contact your Customer Success Manager. 

We’re excited to introduce a new way to make organizing questions in the playbook easier!

✨ What’s New?

Effortless Reordering

Questions can now be reordered easily. Simply click on the row number of any question and type the desired row number to move it instantly to the chosen position. This makes adjusting the sequence of questions quicker and more intuitive.

Improved Question Insertion

When creating a new question or duplicating an existing one, it will automatically appear directly below the selected row. This eliminates the need for manual adjustments, ensuring new or duplicated questions appear exactly where intended.

Admins can now configure External Validation rules alongside existing internal checks.
How it works:

1. Set up an External Query entity of type API: Specify the URL of the external service and define the parameters the CPQ should send to this external system.
2. Create an external validation rule in the Submit Validation screen.

All validations (both internal and external) are executed upon proposal submission, ensuring all necessary checks are completed before proposal is sent for approval or ready to be shared with a buyer.

If validation fails, the external system sends a failure response. In such cases, admins have the flexibility to:

• Define a custom message that should be shown to the seller.
• Display the exact error message returned by the external system.
• Combine both approaches by embedding the external system’s response into a custom message for greater clarity.

For further assistance, contact DealHub Support or your Customer Success Manager.

DealHub offers a new capability in the Salesforce settings:
Now, an admin can add custom fields and set them to write and not read-only. This will enhance Dealhub's ability to integrate seamlessly with Salesforce.

To improve the user experience and introduce new capabilities, we are excited to share with you the redesigned Question Group Settings.

Product Selection Filter Tab

We added a dedicated tab for product filters so you can easily switch between settings tabs within the modal for improved usability. We have also created predefined presentation rules for product selection filters.

External Object

Instead of having to open a modal and manually select individual items, you can now easily retrieve external query data with just one click with the new External Object features, which include predefined presentation rules for the external object option. 

To configure this feature, go to Playbooks> Specific Playbook> Question Groups> Specific Group Settings.

Introducing a fresh design for the advanced pricing rule section a new field for specifying the price rule name, enhancing the overall user experience. 
This addition will allow you to describe rules according to the use case, area, or the products affected, making it easy to define, categorize, and search.

Feature: Products - Product Pricing - Advanced Pricing Rule

Need more proposal-related information in your HubSpot CRM?

As of now, administrators can set a configuration to synchronize proposal workflows and/or proposal playbook data (questions and answers) with their CRM. Synchronization enablement is done on the HubSpot Settings screen.

Feature: Version Settings -> Advanced Settings -> HubSpot Settings.

Additionally, once synchronized, this information could be seen via HubSpot CRM cards.

Note: This functionality can be utilized by accounts with a HubSpot Enterprise license. If the HubSpot CRM license differs from Enterprise or if your organization reaches the maximum limit of custom objects in HubSpot, the CPQ version activation will fail.

Out-of-the-Box, when CPQ synchronizes proposal information into CRM Deal, it synchronizes the multiplier of all factors defined on the product line item, so that the total net of the line item will be presented/calculated correctly. From now on, an admin can also add an explicit mapping of each factor to the custom field on the CRM side.

Feature: Version Settings -> Products -> Settings -> Product Factors 

DealStream is now providing geolocation and platform details for DealRoom events.

Enhance your deal exploration with this DealStream's latest enhancement. 🌐📱💻

Google Chrome Extensions -> DealHub DealStream