How to cancel an estimate in field service software?
Short answerTo cancel an estimate, mark it as declined, expired or withdrawn instead of deleting it, so the customer can no longer approve it and your win and loss records stay intact. Choose declined when the customer said no, expired when time ran out and withdrawn when you pulled it back.
The explanation
Deleting an estimate erases what you quoted, what the customer saw and why it did not close. Keeping the estimate with a status preserves that. Over a season, the pile of declined and expired quotes shows how often you win and where prices or timing lose jobs.
Choose the status that matches the story. Declined means the customer rejected it. Expired means the validity date passed. Withdrawn means you cancelled it because the scope changed or you cannot do the work. If the customer still has a link, make sure the status stops them from approving an old price.
Where scope changed, make a new version rather than editing the old one. A revision history shows what changed and prevents a later argument about which price was agreed.
What to watch for
- Deleting quotes and losing your close rate.
- An old approval link that still works.
- Editing an approved quote instead of versioning it.
How Apex does it
In progress
Part of this is built. The rest is not. Status as of 2026-10-07; the badge shows the least-built feature involved.
Apex is designed to set quote expiry dates, keep quote versions and follow up on open quotes. Expiry dates and versions are rolling out, and quote follow-up is in progress, per their badges.
- ES10Quote expiry dates(Rolling out)
- ES28Quote versions / revisions(Rolling out)
- ES09Quote follow-up automations(In progress)
Apex Flow Scheduler is in early access. See how we label status.
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