Version 1.34 does two things: it connects the AV cost calculator on our website to the app, and it fixes how we price events in different markets. The second one is the bigger change, and it is worth explaining why.
Start a proposal from the calculator. Until now, if you priced an event on our AV cost calculator and then signed up, everything you had configured was thrown away and you landed on an empty form. Now your configuration carries across. Pick the country your event is in, set the attendee count and days, choose your video, lighting and staging — then click through, and your first proposal opens already filled in with the event you just priced. The estimate stays what it always was, orientation rather than a quote: CueQuote re-prices everything from your own catalogue and your own rates before anything reaches a client.
The calculator now covers 66 markets, shows prices in local currency at exchange rates refreshed daily, and breaks the estimate down line by line rather than showing a single number.
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Try CueQuote Free →Pricing that tells equipment and crew apart. We used to apply one multiplier per region to everything — equipment, crew, catering, decor. That turns out to be wrong in a way that matters. Professional AV hardware is bought on a single global market: a line array or an LED panel costs roughly the same to buy in Warsaw as in Munich, so its rental price barely moves between countries. Crew is entirely local, and varies enormously. One number cannot describe both.
We audited published rate cards across thirteen regions to find out how far off we were. Japan made the problem obvious — equipment there prices above the Western European baseline while a technician costs about a third of it. The Gulf was the largest error: our 2.5x multiplier turned out to match what Dubai hotels charge for in-house AV, not what the open rental market charges, which sits below parity. Gulf events were being estimated at roughly three times reality.
Every region now carries two multipliers, one for equipment and one for crew and locally-produced services. Planners in the Gulf, the United States, Eastern Europe and East Asia will see the biggest change. Where the research found nothing citable — Egypt, India, Latin America and Africa — we left the existing values alone and recorded in the code that they are unverified, rather than replacing a guess with a better-dressed guess.