Cost calculator FAQs

Apart from them being able to provide instant quotes for your customers 24/7, an online quote calculator can promote trust, and also promote other services which potential customers hadn't realised you offer.

It could also save you time and effort through not having to wasting time chasing leads that go nowhere.

Your online price calculator can reduce that burden by doing the qualifying for you, allowing you to free up time to focus on doing what you do best and deliver a great service.

You can also track who generated each quote, enabling you to follow up as a warm lead.

Most people who visit websites are looking for information and answers to questions they have.

One of the most common questions is How much? and if potential customers can't find the answers they're looking for, they're likely to leave you website and look elsewhere until they find the answers.

Therefore a calculator which allows users to instantly produce a personalised quote can be hugely beneficial for many businesses to include on their website.

So to avoid losing those potential customers to a competitor, why not provide the answers they're looking for whilst they're still on your website?

After all, if they leave, they might never come back!

Online quote calculators can be useful for many types of businesses. They can provide customers with the means to select items, services, sizes, quantities, etc., and then calculate a final price based on the values you provide.

Some quote calculators, like those from TargaWeb, can also allow the customer to email the quote to themselves, and provide you with a copy of that quote too. This can make them great for lead generation.

The cost of an online calculator depends on a number of factors, including the number of items and their variants, complexity, and also whether you want to offer your customers the ability to pay in installments, and how those payment plans are structured.

TargaWeb's affordable online calculators start at just £325 which covers the initial cost of designing and building your calculator, and small monthly charge which can be as little as £10 per month.

The monthly charge covers hosting, management, maintenance and analytics.

Your cost calculator will be fully responsive, meaning it will work seamlessly across smartphones, tablets and desktops computers.

It will also be optimised for fast loading times to ensure a smooth user experience, which helps to reduce bounce rates and improve conversion.

Depending on your needs, a bespoke online quote calculator could take anything from 5 days to design and build.

However, TargaWeb have streamlined a process which can make customisable calculators quicker and cheaper, with costs starting at just £325, which are usually able to be completed within a couple of days.

If you already have a website, you could ask your web designer to build you an online calculator. Depending on your needs, a bespoke online quote calculator could take anything from 5 days to design and build.

However, TargaWeb have streamlined a process which can make customisable calculators quicker and cheaper, with costs starting at just £325, and are usually able to be completed within a couple of days.

TargaWeb makes it really easy to add your new calculator to your website. Your web designer will simply need to add a small piece of code so that the calculator can be made visible to visitors of your website.

We can of course help and advise with that process.

In some respects, a TargaWeb calculator can be added to more than one website.

However, it's important to understand that because there is a trust element in the way that we control the height of the parent page iFrame window on your domain based on the individual calculator pages which are hosted on TargaWeb's domain.

Without that trust element being applied between your domain and TargaWeb's domain, there will be no automated control over the iFrame height whilst the calculator is in use.

Yes. During the design of your calculator we will analyse the styling elements of your website and replicate them on your calculator. That will ensure that your calculator's colours, styling, fonts, etc., are consistent with your website.

Online cost calculators are not an ideal replacement for businesses who could use a simple static price list, because their functionality and the costs involved to build it, would... in reality... be a waste of time and money.

However, they could be perfect for businesses who provide services, bundled options, and factor in other criteria such as multiple selections, order value, distance, frequency, ease of access, and any number of other factors which have the potential to impact the cost in some way.

Rarely does an off-the-shelf calculator truly reflect the specific prices and pricing structure of business without requiring at least some customisation.

Although TargaWeb does produce bespoke cost calculators, it is understandable that some businesses need to keep their own costs down and would prefer to have a lower priced calculator instead of spending on a fully bespoke solution.

Therefore for clients on a tight budget, we try to accommodate the most important aspects of their prices and pricing structure within partially pre-built templates.

This enables costs to be keep down, without compromising too much on what the business needs the most.

No, you won't need to switch your website over to be managed by TargaWeb.

We'll do all we can to make it easy for your current web designer to add the calculator, but it is a fact of life that some web designers these days lack the technical skills to work within the code of a website.

If in doubt, we can do trial implementation with your current web designer to determine whether it's feasible for them to add the calculator. However, once the calculator code has been added, we can manage the calculator without having to involve your current web designer.