How to create an Instant Quote from a quotation-request email

Open a personal-mailbox email classified as a quotation request, analyze it with Freightools, and move the extracted request into Instant Quote with the source email attached to the search.

Updated 9/23/2026

When AI Email Intelligence recognizes an email as a quotation request, Freightools can move the request from the personal mailbox into Instant Quote so the shipment data does not need to be typed again from scratch.

Before you start

  • Your personal mailbox must be connected.
  • The incoming email must be identified as a quotation request.
  • For the customer to be matched automatically, the sender email address must belong to a Freightools customer or to a contact on that customer.

Analyze the quotation request

  1. Open the personal Mailbox.
  2. Select the email carrying the Quotation badge.
  3. Review the email content and the AI Summary if needed.
  4. Click Analyze Quote Request.

The selected quote-request email contains the shipment request and shows Analyze Quote Request directly below the Quotation badge.

  1. Freightools opens Instant Quote and shows Analyzing request: followed by the email subject while it reads the request.

Instant Quote opens from the email and shows Analyzing request: Quote Request Genoa to Ningbo while the request is being processed.

  1. In the successful recorded example, Freightools fills the Customer, Origin, Destination, equipment type and quantity from the request. The source email text remains visible below the search fields with an Open email button.
  2. The recorded flow then proceeds to search the available carrier APIs and rate databases.

The successfully analyzed request is attached to customer A and fills Port of Genoa to Port of Ningbo, 40 HC x 1, while carrier and rate sources are being searched.

Continue with /help/how-to-compare-quotation-options-before-sharing once the Instant Quote results are available.

If something goes wrong

If Freightools cannot match the sender to a customer, it does not complete the customer match. The recorded error instructs the user to add the sender as a partner or as a contact of an existing partner and then analyze the request again.

See /help/how-to-fix-partner-not-found-when-analyzing-a-quotation-request.

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