The quick order window on Kite
The quick order window on Kite , Zerodha’s trading platform, is a stripped-down order ticket that shows only two fields, Qty. and Price, alongside the required margin and the approximate charges for the order. It removes the variety, product, and order-type controls of the full ticket so a plain buy or sell takes fewer clicks. You open it by clicking Quick on any order window, and return to the full ticket by clicking Regular. The window is built for speed: enter a quantity or a rupee amount, optionally set a limit price, and submit.
This guide covers where the quick order window sits, every field it shows, how the amount and lots toggles remove manual calculation, how the pencil icon switches between a market and a limit price, and how the quick window differs from both the full regular order window and the sticky order window it is often confused with.
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Step-by-step procedure
The procedure infobox at the top lists the six steps. The quick window is not a separate order screen; it is a toggle on the standard ticket, so you always open a ticket first, then switch to Quick. The H3 sections below expand each step with the exact Kite labels.
1. Open an order ticket
The quick window is reachable from every order route, because it is a view of the same ticket. On Kite web, hover a search result and click B or S, or use a row in Holdings , Positions , or the option chain. On the Kite app, tap an instrument and tap Buy or Sell. See how to place an order without a marketwatch for every route that opens a ticket. Once a ticket is open, you can switch it to the quick view.
2. Switch to the quick window
Click Quick on the order ticket. The window collapses to two input fields, Qty. and Price, with the required margin or the amount needed and the approximate charges shown below them. The variety, product, and order-type rows of the full ticket disappear. To return to the full ticket, with its Regular, Cover, AMO, and Iceberg varieties and its SL and SL-M order types, click Regular.
3. Set the quantity, amount, or lots
Enter the share count directly in Qty. A switch icon next to the field changes what you enter. Toggle it to Amount for equity and most instruments, and you type a rupee value instead of a share count: enter Rs 10,000 to buy roughly Rs 10,000 of a stock, and Kite works out the share quantity, so you skip the divide-price-into-budget arithmetic. For F&O contracts, the same switch icon toggles to Lots, so you enter a number of lots rather than a contract-multiplied quantity. The amount toggle is the feature that makes the quick window faster than the full ticket for a value-based buy.
4. Choose market or limit price
The Price field controls the order type without a separate dropdown. Leave Price blank and the order is submitted as a market order. To place a limit order, click the pencil icon next to Price and enter the limit price. Kite remembers this choice: if your last quick order used a limit price, the next one defaults to limit, and likewise for market. This is the quick window’s substitute for the order-type row in the full ticket, which is why the quick window covers only market and limit orders, not SL or SL-M.
5. Set intraday if needed
An Intraday checkbox sets the product to MIS for the order. Tick it for an intraday trade and leave it unticked for delivery or carry-forward. One restriction applies: the Qty-to-Amount toggle is not available for equity intraday, so when Intraday is ticked on an equity order you enter a share quantity, not a rupee amount.
6. Submit
Check the required margin and approximate charges shown in the window, then submit: click Buy or Sell on Kite web, or swipe on the Kite app. If the trade needs anything the quick window does not offer, an SL, an SL-M, a cover order, an after-market order, or an iceberg, click Regular to expand back to the full ticket before submitting.
What the quick order window does not cover
The quick window is deliberately limited to plain market and limit orders. It has no variety row, so you cannot place a cover order , an after-market order , or an iceberg order from it. It has no order-type row beyond the market-or-limit pencil toggle, so SL and SL-M orders, which need a trigger price, require the full ticket. For any stop-loss, switch to Regular so the trigger-price field appears; see trigger price vs limit price for how that field works. The quick window’s value is in what it removes, not in what it adds: for a straightforward buy or sell it is the fastest path, and for anything conditional the regular ticket is the correct tool.
Quick window versus regular and sticky windows
The three order-window options on Kite solve different problems, and traders frequently confuse them.
| Window | What it changes | Best for |
|---|---|---|
| Regular order window | The full ticket: variety, product, order type, validity, all visible | Stop-loss, cover, AMO, iceberg, and any conditional order |
| Quick order window | Strips the ticket to Qty and Price, with amount and lots toggles | Fast plain market or limit buys and sells |
| Sticky order window | Keeps the ticket open after you submit, retaining the last values | Placing several orders in quick succession, scaling in or out |
The quick and sticky windows are not alternatives; they combine. A sticky quick window stays open after each submit and shows only Qty and Price, which is the fastest setup for placing a run of market orders, such as scaling into a position at different sizes. The regular window remains the only one that exposes the trigger-price field needed for stop orders.
Why the amount toggle matters
The quantity-to-amount toggle is the quick window’s main time-saver. Without it, buying a fixed rupee value of a stock means dividing your budget by the live price to get a share count, then re-checking as the price moves. The toggle removes that step: you state the rupee value and Kite computes the quantity at the prevailing price. For F&O, the lots toggle removes the parallel step of multiplying a lot size by the number of lots to get a contract quantity, which matters most for traders who deal in many lots and would otherwise mis-key the multiplied figure. Both toggles turn a calculation into a single typed number, which is where most of the quick window’s speed comes from.
See also
- Kite by Zerodha
- Zerodha
- Kite web
- Kite mobile app
- Sticky order window on Kite
- How to place an order without a marketwatch on Kite
- Market order on Kite
- Limit order on Kite
- SL order on Kite
- SL-M order on Kite
- How to place an SL-M order on Kite
- Trigger price vs limit price on Kite
- Cover order on Zerodha
- AMO on Zerodha
- Iceberg order on Kite
- Order validity types
- Disclosed quantity orders
- Market price protection on the order window
- CNC product code
- MIS product code
- NRML product code
- Kite Holdings tab explained
- Kite Positions tab explained
- How to quick exit holdings and positions on Kite
- Basket order on Kite
- Market depth view on Kite
- GTT order on Zerodha
- Kite nudges
External references
- Zerodha support: What is the Quick order window?
- Zerodha support: How to use the new order window on Kite app?
- Zerodha support: What is a sticky order window in Kite, and how to use it?
- Z-Connect: Introducing the quick order window feature on Kite
- Kite by Zerodha
References
- Zerodha support, What is the Quick order window? (as of 21 June 2026).
- Zerodha support, How to use the new order window on Kite app? (as of 21 June 2026).
- Z-Connect by Zerodha, Introducing the quick order window feature on Kite (as of 21 June 2026).
- SEBI master circular on stock broker obligations and order-routing interfaces, as amended.
- NSE Capital Market trading regulations, order entry and order type provisions.