Vantek — Industrial Parts Quote Management

descriptionDetailed Overview

Vantek is a production-ready quote operations platform for industrial parts teams. It gives data operators a secure Supabase-authenticated dashboard to manage incoming quote requests, review extracted customer and part details, search supplier offers through n8n webhooks, select the best supplier per part, generate quote drafts, and create final Axonaut quotations with PDF links. The system supports English and French, manual request creation for phone or WhatsApp inquiries, Excel supplier database management, dashboard KPIs, request filtering, bulk actions, CSV export, progress tracking, toast notifications, copy-to-clipboard flows, age color coding, and admin-only Supabase user creation.

targetKey Objectives

• check_circleBuild a secure operator portal with Supabase Auth, persistent sessions, password reset, logout, and admin-only user creation
• check_circleCreate a dashboard with KPIs for new requests, urgent cases, pending quotes, sent quotes, request trends, and pipeline status
• check_circleAutomate customer request intake from email while supporting manual creation for WhatsApp, phone, and direct inquiries
• check_circleProvide a filterable request management workflow with pagination, bulk status updates, delete actions, CSV export, and normalized status badges
• check_circleDesign a request detail flow with editable client identity, original message, extracted parts, urgency controls, and a six-step progress tracker
• check_circleIntegrate n8n supplier search webhooks to fetch offers, group results by part reference, rank best prices, and filter by condition, country, currency, price, and text search
• check_circleWrite selected supplier offers directly into Supabase quote lines and keep request statuses synchronized across the workflow
• check_circleGenerate quote drafts, validate quote lines and totals, then create Axonaut quotes with returned quotation IDs and PDF links
• check_circleManage the supplier directory with search, country filtering, manual supplier entry, editing, and Excel or CSV import
• check_circleDeliver bilingual EN/FR UX improvements including toast notifications, copy-to-clipboard, disabled action hints, age color coding, and mobile-friendly stepper states