Request a quote
request_quoteCreates a request for a fixed-price quote from a human. The request is not binding and nothing is charged. Required: description, email and name (the person or company on the invoice, normally the recipient or company in delivery_address). delivery_address is needed when a physical item is shipped, handed over or collected: one plain string with recipient, street, postcode and city, country; a phone number is optional. country is the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code of the address, vat_id only what the client provided. The fields are sent flat, as in the examples. Returns quote_id (of the form q_..., issued only in this response), access_token (shown once; the only key to the quote and its task), nda_url and upload_url (the address input files are POSTed to). A human answers within 24 hours, every day, with a quote or a refusal. No authentication. Shortest possible request: {"description":"Make 20 rubber gaskets, 60 mm outer diameter, black EPDM.","email":"ops@example.com","name":"Example Inc."}. With a delivery address and an input file: {"description":"Make 20 rubber gaskets, 60 mm outer diameter, black EPDM.","email":"ops@example.com","name":"Example Inc.","delivery_address":"Example GmbH, Musterstr. 1, 10115 Berlin, DE, +49 30 000000","input_files":["https://example.com/gasket-drawing.pdf"]}
Input Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| name | Yes | Required. The person or company on the invoice, normally the recipient or company in delivery_address. | |
| Yes | Contact e-mail of the operator; the quote is sent here. | ||
| vat_id | No | VAT or tax id for the invoice, as given by the client. Optional. | |
| country | No | Operator's country, ISO 3166-1 alpha-2, upper case, normally that of the delivery address. Optional. | |
| currency | No | EUR or USD. Default EUR. | |
| deadline | No | Latest acceptable delivery date, ISO 8601. Optional. | |
| services | No | Service ids. Optional. | |
| agent_name | No | Name of the agent or platform. Optional. | |
| description | Yes | What is to be done, plainly: quantity, material, colour, size, tolerances, what counts as done. | |
| input_files | No | HTTPS URLs of input files (photos, sketch, STEP/STL model, PDF drawing). At most 20. | |
| deliverables | No | What the client expects to receive. Optional; otherwise part of description. | |
| delivery_address | No | Required for a physical shipment. One plain string: recipient, street, postcode and city, country, as given by the client; a phone number last is optional. | |
| allow_anonymised_example | No | Consent to publish this task as an anonymised example; true only when the client explicitly agreed. Default false. |