Should the website show an instant price or collect a pending quote request?
- Rules-based estimate for a tightly standardized service
- Pending request with staff or provider review
Choose: Use a pending request when inventory, access, travel, restricted items, timing, staffing, storage, packing, insurance, or provider rules can change scope. Show a calculation only when every input, exclusion, update source, and reconciliation path has been verified.
Tradeoff: Pending review adds a human step but avoids false precision. A rules-based estimate responds faster for standardized work but creates maintenance, disclosure, exception, tax, payment, and change-control obligations.
