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The hosted quote path is a Kordless-hosted page where customers describe what they need and receive a priced quote from your published Live Book. You do not write any code — the page is generated from your Book and served from your subdomain or custom domain.

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What the hosted path does

  1. Collects requirements — The customer selects services and answers the inputs defined in your Book’s quote spec.
  2. Evaluates — The request is evaluated against your published Live Book version using the same deterministic evaluator the API uses.
  3. Shows the offer — The customer sees the priced quote with line items, total, and derivation.
  4. Supports commitment — If the customer accepts, the hosted path can create a hold, deposit, or handoff based on your configured commitment policies.
The entire flow uses your Book — you never configure pricing per surface.

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Where the hosted path lives

Every workspace gets a kordless.site subdomain at provisioning. The hosted quote path is available at that subdomain. You can also connect a custom domain you own. See Customer surfaces for subdomain and custom domain configuration.

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How to enable the hosted path

  1. Publish a Live Book version.
  2. Ensure your workspace is on an active paid plan (not Sandbox, not paused).
  3. The hosted path is automatically available at your subdomain.
No additional configuration is required. The hosted path reads your published Live Book and renders the quote spec’s services and inputs.

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What the customer sees

The hosted path presents:
  • Your business name, logo, and description from Settings.
  • The services your Book covers, with their inputs.
  • A quote result with line items, total, and derivation (for priced outcomes).
  • A clear message for non-priced outcomes (needs_input, unavailable).
  • An acceptance flow if commitment mechanics are configured.

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Test and Live

The hosted path works in both environments:
  • Test — Use ?mode=test on the URL to reach the Test environment. Test quotes are not metered and not visible to customers.
  • Live — The default (no mode parameter) serves the Live hosted path. Live quotes are metered and customer-visible.

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What the hosted path shares with the API

  • The same published Live Book version.
  • The same deterministic evaluator.
  • The same quote spec (services and inputs).
  • The same commitment mechanics.
  • The same quote receipt and derivation.
The hosted path and the API are two surfaces over one Book. A quote produced through the API and a quote produced through the hosted path use the same evaluator and produce the same result for the same inputs.

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When to use the hosted path vs. the API

Both surfaces can coexist. A customer who submits through the hosted path and a developer who quotes through the API both hit the same Book and the same evaluator.