CONTRACT hire companies are being targeted with a new product from cfc solutions allowing them to quote online in real time more quickly.

The Web Quotes module, which works with cfc's Contract Manager 2 software, means that contract hire and fleet management companies can avoid issuing quotes manually, substantially cutting costs.

Sales of Contract Manager 2 have risen by 600% so far in 2002 and cfc expects that the launch of the new module will boost this figure still further during the rest of the year.

The year-on-year increase in Contract Manager 2 sales has been driven by orders from a number of new entrants into the contract hire market and a high level of interest in replacing existing and outdated software systems.

Jason Francis, managing director of cfc solutions, said: 'Users have always been able to utilise Contract Manager 2 to generate online quotations but Web Quotes makes it much simpler.

'It is becoming a facility which customers expect contract hire companies to provide and the module is the easiest way to fulfil this need that we know of.'