Quote (Stripe)
A Stripe Quote is an itemized price offer you send a customer. Once accepted, Stripe turns it into an invoice or a subscription.
Updated October 1, 2026
A Quote in Stripe is an itemized price offer you send a customer before billing starts. It lists the products, prices, quantities, discounts, and terms of a deal. When the customer accepts, Stripe creates an invoice or a subscription from it.
How a quote works
A quote has four statuses:
- Draft. You add line items, apply discounts, and set an expiration date.
- Open. You finalize and send it. The customer reviews it on a hosted quote page.
- Accepted. The customer approves, and Stripe creates the invoice or subscription.
- Canceled. You withdraw the quote, or it expires unaccepted.
The objects Stripe creates use the exact prices and quantities in the quote, so the customer is billed what they approved. For deals with phases, such as a discounted first year, a quote can create a subscription schedule with one phase per period.
Why use quotes
For sales-led SaaS, quotes replace spreadsheets and PDF proposals. The signed quote becomes the billing record, so nobody retypes prices into Stripe.
Quotes also record deal value. The recurring part of a quote feeds metrics like ACV, and acceptance is when a booked deal starts billing. Acceptance rate and average deal size help sales-led teams forecast.