Fee Quotes

A fee quote answers one question: what will the government charge on this deal? Nothing is filed and nothing is issued — you get a number, itemized, that you can quote to a customer or put on a deal.

There are two of them, and they are genuinely different tools rather than two doors onto the same one. This article explains what each gives you, what each needs from you, and how to read the result.

Which one you want

	Fee Quote in a deal jacket	Quote in Registrations
Where it lives	The deal jacket’s Pricing section	A registration, transaction type Quote
Who works out the number	We do, from Florida’s published fee schedule	Florida does, on request
Needs a buyer	No	Yes — a real Florida customer
Needs the VIN checked with Florida	No	Yes
Screens to get through	As few as one, if the deal is complete	Most of the registrations wizard
Best for	Pricing a deal you are already writing up	A formal figure straight from the state

If you are sitting in a deal jacket and the customer is asking what the tag and title will run them, use the deal jacket’s Fee Quote. If you want the state’s own arithmetic on paper, use the Quote transaction.

The fee quote inside a deal jacket

Where to find it

Open the deal jacket and go to Pricing. Under Transfer Prices you will see grayed placeholder rows for the fees this deal is missing — Title State Fee, Tag State Fee, and EFS Platform Fee if you file electronically. Clicking one opens the quote. Once every fee line is present, the placeholders are gone and Refresh fee quote appears in the table header instead.

The deal has to have a vehicle on it. Without one there is nowhere for the quote’s answers to be saved, so the button tells you to pick a vehicle first.

Transfer Prices

3

Name	Type	Amount
Dealer fee	Dealer Charge
Title transfer	DMV Charge
Tag transfer	DMV Charge

Title State Fee

Get from DMV

Tag State Fee

Get from DMV

Add transfer priceAdd templateBulk add templates

IllustrationUnder the real line items, the fees this deal is still missing appear as their own rows — a small blue dot, the name in italic grey, and Get from DMV under it in blue. They are buttons, not blanks, and they disappear once the real line exists.

What it asks

It opens on an overview headed Here’s what we’ll base this on — every question this deal has, each showing either the answer already on the deal or a red needs an answer mark. Anything the deal jacket, the VIN or you have already settled is simply listed; you do not walk a screen for it.

That is the whole design: the more the deal jacket already knows, the shorter this is. A complete deal is one screen and one click. A deal with nothing but a VIN walks through the questions one at a time — the vehicle’s type, body, size, how it will be driven, new or used; the tag; the title; the sale date; whether there is a loan.

The one question the deal can never answer for itself is where you will file:

Choice	What it means
County Tax Collector	A county office. Their name almost always has “Tax Collector” in it
License Plate or Tag Agency	A private office. Their name almost always ends in “Tag Agency”

The state’s fees are identical at both. The difference is that a private agency adds its own service fee, which we include when you pick it. If you file electronically from your own office you are not asked — that route is already known.

What it costs

The Get fees button on the overview is the one that spends credits, and it is the only screen that mentions a charge. What you are buying is the calculation.

Once per deal. Change an answer and re-price and you are not charged again — otherwise you would be paying to correct yourself. Once a deal has been priced, the button becomes See the fees, because there is no second charge to make.

Putting the fees on the deal is free. Once you have the breakdown you can add the lines to the deal jacket, or write the numbers down and enter them yourself. Both are legitimate; the calculation was the product.

What you get

An itemized breakdown of what Florida and the counter will charge, which you can add to Transfer Prices as real fee lines.

What it deliberately does not cover, in the app’s own words: extras — overnight mail, notarizing, a duplicate title, or anything the office does beyond the title and tag. Sales tax is handled separately on the deal; it is not part of this number. It is calculated from the buyer’s and the dealership’s addresses on the deal itself — Creating a Deal Jacket covers that.

Keeping it honest afterwards

Two things watch the quote after you have bought it.

If the deal changes. Edit something that moves the number — the weight, the body, the tag choice, the title type, the sale date, whether there is a loan — and the deal jacket says which one changed and offers to re-price. Re-pricing is free.

If you edit a quoted line. The table tells you how far your figure is from the quoted one, in total and per line, and offers to put it back. That is a note, not a rule: you are allowed to charge what you charge.

Note

If you have sent this deal to us as a Tag & Title request, the quote steps aside and says Fees come from your titling request — that request keeps the fee lines current on its own, and estimating fees we already know exactly would be paying for nothing. See What the Tag & Title Service Does.

The Quote transaction in Registrations

What it is

Quote is one of the transaction types on a registration. It asks Florida for a breakdown of the fees your customer will owe on a title and registration, and files nothing: no tag, no title, no registration. The registration ends up marked Quoted.

What it needs from you

Nearly everything a real filing needs, because the state is answering a filing-shaped question. In order: Transaction Type, Vehicle, Buyer (plus co-buyer and third buyer if there are any), Title, Liens & fees, Title delivery, Sales tax, Tag, Registration use, Registration length, Plate type where a new metal plate is being issued, Registration delivery, then Review.

Insurance is the one step it always skips. A couple of others drop out depending on the vehicle: a light trailer has no title to deliver, and an off-highway vehicle has no registration to ask about, so those screens do not appear.

That includes a real vehicle checked with Florida and a real Florida customer — both of which are record lookups, and both of which are charged.

What it costs

There is no transaction fee on a Quote. The card on the Transaction Type screen says No transaction fee, and the record lookups are the whole price — you are paying for the questions Florida answers on the way to a complete quote, not for the quote itself.

Record lookups are charged one per record Florida resolves — the vehicle when you check the VIN, each customer when you look them up. A lookup is charged again only when you ask about something different.

Note

Prices differ by dealership, so this article does not print any. The Transaction Type screen shows your current figures, and expanding What is a record lookup? there shows your lookup price and which lookups this transaction can spend.

Reading the result

The issued quote opens on a Fees tab.

Card	What it holds
Total	The whole figure, with a print button that opens the Fee Calculation PDF
Title Transaction Fees	The title side — the transaction Florida priced, and every fee inside it with its code and description
Registration Transaction Fees	The registration side, itemized the same way
My Dealer Jacket Fees	What we charged you for this transaction and its lookups

The Fee Calculation PDF carries your dealership’s name and logo, the vehicle, the customer and the full itemization, so it is the version you hand to a customer.

Total

Title Transaction Fees

Transfer Title (TRT)

(OD)

ODOMETER FEE

(TS1)

TITLE SERVICE FEE

(STF)

STATE TRANSPORTATION FEE

Registration Transaction Fees

Transfer Regular Registration (TRR)

(AC)

AIR POLLUTION CTRL

(EM)

EMS FEE

(FV)

FRVIS FEE

IllustrationThe Fees tab leads with the total on a blue card, with a print button beside it for the Fee Calculation PDF. Under it, one card per transaction — the title side and the registration side — each naming the transaction and its Florida code, then every fee inside it with the state's own code and description.

Things both quotes have in common

A quote is a quote. It prices what Florida charges today, on the facts you gave it. Change the facts, or come back in six months, and the number can move.

Neither of them files anything. A quote never issues a tag, transfers a title or registers a vehicle. To do any of those, start the transaction you actually need.

Neither includes what the office does beyond the title and tag. Overnight mail, notarizing and duplicate titles are not in either figure.