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Security and data

Where your quotes live and who can see them

Quote Desk holds your price list, your enquiries, your quotes and your customers' names and email addresses. This page says where that sits, who runs the machines, how money is handled, and what the product never does.

Hosting

Quote Desk runs on Vercel in Sydney, and its database is on Supabase in Sydney. Backups are taken daily. Your data stays in Australia except where a provider named on this page processes it elsewhere as part of doing its job; the privacy page says which.

Payments

Card details never touch Quote Desk. Starter and Crew are paid through Stripe: checkout happens on a Stripe-hosted page, and the Update card form in Billing is Stripe's own card entry embedded in our page. We see that a payment succeeded or failed; we never see the card number.

Email and text messages

Quote emails, follow-ups, welcome emails and password notices are sent through Postmark. The six-digit code at sign-up is sent to your mobile through Vonage. Customers are never texted. Quote emails go from hello@talkofthetrade.com.au in your business name, with replies routed to your own address once you have confirmed it.

Sign-in

A password is ten characters or more, and we store only a hash of it. You can sign in with a password or with a link emailed to you. Changing your password signs out every other device and sends a notice to your confirmed email. A sign-in link lets you set a new password within fifteen minutes without the old one, which is the recovery path.

What Quote Desk never does

It never sells your data. It never texts your customers. It never puts anything of ours on the page your customer reads beyond the Quote Desk name in its header and footer. It never changes, sells or badges a listing on Talk of the Trade; the directory's rankings are by review count and Quote Desk has no connection to them. It never takes a card number itself.

  • No sale of customer data
  • No text messages to your customers
  • No effect on any directory listing or ranking
  • No card numbers stored or seen