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 The Mcule database contains over 6 million unique purchasable compounds and 10 million corresponding products. All these compounds can be purchased by clicking on the orange Quote buttons placed next to particular compounds or in the top right corner of collections. Then you can provide basic information required for quote calculation in the Quote form and depending on your [[https://mcule.com/pricing/|price plan]] you will be able to choose between Instant Quote and Next-Day Quote. If you select Instant Quote, the best price and fastest delivery quotes will be calculated on-the-fly. You can then fine-tune these quotes based on Effective price, stock availability and purity information. After you finalized your quote, you can save it and export it in PDF or Excel formats. You can go back any time when you are ready to place the order. Optionally, you can specify a Purchase Order number and upload a PO file issued by your company / institution. After you placed the order, you can track its status online.
 ==== Quote form ====
 In the quote form you can specify the preferred and the acceptable minimum amounts per compound. For example, if you would like to order 20 mg but at least 5 mg of a compound, then you should set these values  as preferred and acceptable minimum, respectively. You can also set the minimum required purity for the products. Please note that for most screening compounds the guaranteed minimum purity is 85-90-95%, depending on the catalogs. You can request the compounds in standard or custom vials (powders) or plates (DMSO solutions). Our recent development now allows to implement any customer-defined formatting option to Instant Quote and we can implement it for you in a few days. To enable custom delivery formats in Instant Quote, please contact us at [[support@mcule.com|support@mcule.com]]. In the Quote form, you can also specify which catalogs should be included / excluded in the quote calculation. Catalogs are grouped based on stock availability information: //Known stock amounts// refers to at least weekly updated information, while for //Stock// catalogs, high availability rate is guaranteed but current amounts are not provided by the supplier. The maximum delivery time (in working days) can be also set.
+==== Instant quote ====
+[[https://mcule.com/quote/list]]
+Instant Quote utilizes a unique price optimization algorithm which calculates the best price and fastest delivery quotes by comparing and optimizing compound prices, supplier discounts, small order fees, delivery costs, customs duties and reformatting options. Since the same compound is typically available from multiple suppliers and there are many parameters to consider during quote generation, the manual price and delivery time optimization could be very challenging even for a relatively small order: the number of possible quotes for 10 compounds each available from 5 suppliers, would be 510. Additionally, requesting stock availability information is time-consuming especially when the information has to be requested by email.