We are a commercial AV and lighting integrator and we run our business on Square:
payments, invoicing, catalog. We built our proposal tooling directly on the
Invoices API and it has held up well.
We processed over a million dollars through Square in the last twelve months and
are on track for one to two million. We want to put more through it, not less,
which is why I am posting this.
Every job we sell starts as an estimate. The client gets a proposal, revises it,
approves it, and only then does it become an invoice. The invoice half we
automated. The estimate half we cannot, because the API has no estimate stage, so
every proposal gets keyed into the Dashboard by hand.
That is the ceiling on how many jobs we can quote in a week, which makes it the
ceiling on how much we can sell. Every proposal we cannot generate is a job we do
not quote, and revenue that never reaches Square either.
I saw the note on the existing thread that this is more complicated than flipping
a feature flag, and I take that at face value. I am not asking for a date. I would
just like to know whether estimates in the API are on the roadmap at all, so we
can plan around the answer.