# ManyLives Quote Check

> ManyLives Quote Check is a paid API for AI agents from api.manylives.me, paid per call via x402, $0.003/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-18).

Validates a trade or service quote against business rules: checks line item prices against a catalogue, enforces margin floors, verifies required categories, and confirms quote validity period.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://api.manylives.me/paid/doc/quote-check?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.003/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-18
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/manylives-quote-check-704f4663
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_pvqdzIDLQlHh_gJHT1yz5

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability manylives-quote-check-704f4663 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Check this hot water job quote Q-311 for me — it has 3 labour hours at $110, 4 lengths of 15mm copper pipe (SKU CP15) at $11.50, and a $60 call-out fee, subtotalling $436 plus $43.60 tax. My rules are: CP15 costs me $7.20 and sells at $11.50, minimum margin is 30% for hot water jobs, and every quote must have a labour and travel line.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need to programmatically audit a structured quote document against explicit business rules such as a parts catalogue, margin floors, required line item categories, or validity periods. It is purpose-built for trade and field-service quoting workflows where quotes are structured JSON objects. Prefer it over generic AI text review when you need deterministic, rule-based compliance checks with precise computed outputs like margin percentages and expected tax.

## Known failure modes

- Quote JSON missing required fields (quote_number, date, lines) causes validation to fail or error
- Catalogue SKU not found in provided rules — price check skipped for that line
- Country not recognised — tax defaults to Australian GST rules
- Lines total mismatch vs sum of line amounts triggers arithmetic discrepancy
- Invalid date format in quote causes date-range check to fail
- Empty or malformed rules object causes rule checks to be skipped silently

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## Output

Returns a pass/fail boolean and a list of individual check results, each with an ok flag, a human-readable check name, and a detail string explaining any failure. Also returns computed fields including margin percentage, lines total before tax, and expected tax amount.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "quote": {
   "type": "string",
   "examples": [
    {
     "tax": 43.6,
     "date": "2026-10-14",
     "lines": [
      {
       "amount": 330,
       "category": "labour",
       "quantity": 3,
       "unit_price": 110,
       "description": "Labour"
      },
      {
       "sku": "CP15",
       "amount": 46,
       "category": "materials",
       "quantity": 4,
       "unit_price": 11.5,
       "description": "15mm copper pipe"
      },
      {
       "amount": 60,
       "category": "travel",
       "quantity": 1,
       "unit_price": 60,
       "description": "Call-out and travel"
      }
     ],
     "total": 479.6,
     "job_type": "hot water",
     "subtotal": 436,
     "valid_until": "2026-11-13",
     "quote_number": "Q-311"
    }
   ],
   "description": "{quote_number, date (YYYY-MM-DD), valid_until, job_type, lines: [{description, sku, category (e.g. labour, materials, travel), quantity, unit_price, unit_cost, amount, tax_free}], subtotal, tax, total, prices_include_tax}"
  },
  "rules": {
   "type": "string",
   "examples": [
    {
     "catalogue": [
      {
       "sku": "CP15",
       "cost": 7.2,
       "name": "15mm copper pipe",
       "price": 11.5
      }
     ],
     "margin_floor": {
      "default": 0.25,
      "hot water": 0.3
     },
     "max_valid_days": 30,
     "required_categories": [
      "labour",
      "travel"
     ]
    }
   ],
   "description": "optional {tax_rate (fraction; required outside Australia), catalogue: [{sku, name, price, cost}] (up to 5,000), price_tolerance (fraction), margin_floor (fraction, or {job_type: fraction, default: fraction}), required_categories: [\"labour\", \"travel\"], max_valid_days}"
  },
  "country": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "optional, default AU"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "pass": false,
  "checks": [
   {
    "ok": false,
    "check": "prices match your catalogue",
    "detail": "1 line(s) differ: line 2 (15mm copper pipe): $9.00 but your catalogue says $11.50."
   },
   {
    "ok": false,
    "check": "margin floor",
    "detail": "margin 24.0% ($410.00 before tax, $311.60 cost) against your 30.0% floor for hot water. The quote needs at least $445.14 before tax to meet it."
   },
   {
    "ok": false,
    "check": "required parts",
    "detail": "no travel line on the quote (your rules say every quote needs one)."
   }
  ],
  "computed": {
   "margin": 0.24,
   "lines_total": 410,
   "expected_tax": 41
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/manylives-quote-check-704f4663/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from api.manylives.me](https://www.zero.xyz/host/api.manylives.me/llms.txt)