(Buyer) Contact – Quick RFQ
The contact feature can be found in the Bid Analysis page of a Quick RFQ event.
The message box icon is located at the top-right corner in the Bid Analysis page offering users to options as Send Message and Inbox.
Click the Send Message button to send a new message.
After filling rows with red asterisks that are mandatory to fill, click the Submit button to send the message or click the Cancel button to cancel.
To: Used to choose the users who will receive the message. If chosen more than one, no user will be able to know who else received this message. Every user added here receives message separately.
Up to 200 users registered in the system at once can be added.
To add a user, click the Add User button and then choose either one of the company users, participant users or participant groups. You can send messages to all types at once. Participant Groups are comprised of All, Participants That Replied During the 'Online Bidding', Participants That Not Replied During the 'Online Bidding', Participants That Replied During the 'Negotiation Phase', Participants That Not Replied During the 'Negotiation Phase'.
All added users will be listed in “To” part. To remove a user from the list, click the “X” icon located of each user information.
Subject: Used to add a subject to the message up to 100 characters. Event ID will be automatically added to the subject and cannot be removed.
Message: Used to enter the message without a character limit. Use the bar to change the way characters appear, add links and make other adjustments.
Documents: Click the Add button to add a document up to 100MB in supported formats such as Word, Excel, etc. If an unsupported file format is added, a warning pop-up will appear with the list of supported file formats.
Added documents will appear with their names. To remove a document click the cross icon in red.
If message is sent successfully, a pop-up indicating the status of the message will appear and you will be automatically directed to the Bid Analysis page.
Click the Inbox option to only list Quick RFQ related messages in the Bid Analysis page.
This Inbox menu is exactly the same as the general Inbox menu located at the top-right corner of the screen. Only difference here is, accessing Inbox menu through the Bid Analysis page will only list you the RFQ related messages.
For further information on sending a message in general, click the link below.
For further information on sending a message in RFI events, click the link below.
For further information on sending a message in E-Auction events, click the link below.
For further information on sending a message in POs, click the link below.