The shop sends you a corner screen order without the side panel, the installer sends a tray drawn on a piece of cardboard, and the merchant has come up short on boxes. With a 3D configurator, the customer sees their floor, their shower or their unit assembled, with its price, and the order reaches you complete.
Monday, quarter past eight. On the orders phone, a photo of a biro sketch on a sheet of plasterboard: 1583 by 792, an arrow pointing to the word “pillar” and not a word about the waste. Below it, a corner shower screen ordered without the side panel. And a voice message from a merchant: the tiler is three boxes short and that batch is no longer available.
None of these is a factory problem. The customer chose with a single piece in their hand, the counter assistant worked out the metres from memory and the installer sent a photo. Each one translates what they understood, and what reaches you is the translation.
What is not cleared up beforehand gets paid for afterwards: a toughened glass panel that has to be made again, a tray cut as a mirror image, a top-up from another batch in another shade, or a unit sent back because it did not fit next to the radiator. And while your office confirms prices over the phone, the customer asks for another quote.
Behind each sentence there is an order that gets delayed or made twice.
The corner screen needs the side panel; the tray, the cut-out and the waste; the worktop, the depth and the cut-outs. Whatever is missing gets filled in from memory or with a sketch that is read the wrong way round.
With the configuratorEach type asks for its own measurements and is redrawn in 3D, with the cut-out and the waste on the tray. With your rules, what you do not make cannot be ordered.
Boxes without allowing for waste, litres without the ceiling or the second coat. The order comes up short and the top-up arrives from another batch, in another shade.
With the configuratorThe metres with waste, the boxes, the skirting, the grout and the tile adhesive, or the litres and the tins, all come out on their own.
Four shower screens and twelve panels for hundreds of combinations. The shop sells what it can show.
With the configuratorThe whole collection can be tried in 3D on the shop's screen or on the customer's phone, with a QR code.
Between the toilet and the radiator there are 85 centimetres. On the product sheet they are numbers; at home, a returned unit.
With the configuratorIt is seen with its dimensions and a person beside it, and at real size in augmented reality.
The shop does not have your up-to-date price list for every combination. While it asks you, the customer asks somewhere else.
With the configuratorEvery combination shows its indicative price instantly, with your price list.
One person pays, another uses it and a third gives an opinion from afar. What gets home is two catalogue photos and a loose figure.
With the configuratorThey take away a PDF or their configuration on their phone, and compare up to three options with the differences highlighted.
Five steps, and at each one time is lost or a mistake slips in.
The customer chooses from what fits in the shop. You lose: everything that is not on display.
Calculations from memory or a catalogue on a sofa. You lose: the extras nobody showed.
A photo of a sketch and two dimensions. You lose: the missing detail.
The shop asks you for a price and waits. You lose: the customer, who compares in the meantime.
Each shop with its own template. You lose: a glass panel, a tray or a batch.
The problem is not your product. It is everything that happens between the showroom and the order sheet. That is why a PDF catalogue is not enough: it shows the product, but it does not take the order.
Your product reaches the customer through other people, and each of them has their own bottleneck.
Four shower screens on display, its own order template and a phone call to confirm every price.
With the configuratorIt shows every combination and sends you the complete order. With its own login, developed to order, it gives the price with its margin.
It works out boxes and litres in its head and, to avoid getting it wrong, sells the standard tray closest to the space.
With the configuratorThe quantities come out on their own and the made-to-measure tray is ordered already drawn.
They measure with the customer in front of them and ask you for the price by message at eleven at night.
With the configuratorThey configure from their phone and, with a trade login, see their trade price rather than the retail price.
Forty minutes on a sofa, two handwritten quotes, and a rain head and a niche crossed out because on paper they look like whims.
With the configuratorThe family sees their shower on the tablet, with the extras in place and their price added.
Without measuring there is no price, and without a price the customer will not agree to you coming to measure.
With the configuratorShape, sizes, material and cut-outs give an indicative price before anyone measures.
“Is it 45 deep?”, “is the oak lighter than in the photo?”. Every unanswered doubt is a potential return.
With the configuratorDimensions and details, in the summary and on the 3D. More in 3D configurator for online shops.
A 3D bathroom configurator is a web page where the customer, the shop or the installer picks the product with its sizes and finishes and sees it assembled in 3D, with an indicative price. At the end, the customer takes their configuration away and you receive the order.
For a manufacturer it is the measurement sheet that leaves no gaps: it asks for what the factory needs and applies your rules, such as which basin goes with which width. If you are starting from scratch, read what a 3D configurator is.
Each with its own page. An open demo, with no registration, with example products and prices.
Formats, finishes, laying pattern, skirting and grout in a room, with metres, boxes and materials calculated.
Tray with screen, freestanding or panelled bath, with taps, rain head, niche, bench and hydromassage. For refurbishers.
The exact size of the space, a cut-out for a pillar, texture, colour and waste, with the price instantly.
Sliding, fixed, corner or hinged: sizes, glass, profile, handle and anti-limescale coating, and the panel opening in 3D.
Wall-hung or floor-standing: width, drawers, basin, finish, handle, illuminated mirror and tall unit. For manufacturers selling online and to shops.
Kitchen and bathroom, to the millimetre: material, thickness, edge and cut-outs, with linear metres and an indicative price. For stone workshops.
Interior and façade: the colours on the colour card, the type of paint, the ceiling and the woodwork, with litres and tins calculated.
Flooring laid plank by plank in the room, staggered, herringbone or chevron, with matching skirting, boxes with wastage, a project PDF and augmented reality.
Images from the demos, with generic products. More in all 3D configurators.
In six of the seven, with reference, description and quantity: from the boxes of tiles to the toughened glass or the worktop with its cut-outs.
Minimum and maximum sizes, surcharges for cut-outs, waste by format and your price list.
With their margin and their logo, and enquiries from private customers assigned to the shop or installer in their area.
If you want the order to go into your ERP or the contact to land in your CRM, it is connected in the project.
Screenshots from the demo, with example references and prices.
We start from a configurator that already works and adapt it to your product and your network. You are not paying for development from scratch.
Series, formats, sizes, finishes and accessories.
Manufacturing limits, surcharges, waste and prices.
Shops, merchants and installers, their margins and their areas.
On your website and on your distributors' sites, with sales training.
Developments start from €6,500 for a visual configurator of one product family; most projects for manufacturers fall between €14,500 and €35,000, depending on the catalogue, the rules and the integrations, plus maintenance from €190 a month.
More detail in the price of a 3D configurator.
There are more short answers in frequently asked questions about 3D configurators and who we are in 3D configurator company.
A web page where your customer, the shop or the installer picks the product with its sizes and finishes and sees it assembled in 3D, with an indicative price from your price list, a comparison tool for up to three options and the configuration as a PDF or on their phone. Six of the seven in the sector also produce the factory order sheet. More in what a 3D configurator is.
Seven, each with its own page and open demo: floor and wall tiles, shower and bath, made-to-measure shower tray, shower screen, bathroom furniture, stone or quartz worktop and paint colour.
Each family has its own flow and its own rules: the tray asks for the size, the cut-out and the waste; the screen, the type, the width, the side panel and the height. In the proposal we set which families are included, and the price depends on that scope.
No. It opens in the browser on a computer, tablet or phone. With a QR code the customer moves their configuration to their phone and sees it at real size in their own space with augmented reality.
The order sheet with every reference, its description and its quantity: boxes of tiles and grout, the tray with its cut-out and its waste valve, the toughened glass and the profiles, the unit with its basin or the worktop with its cut-outs. Six of the seven produce it; the paint one gives litres and tins. If you want it to go into your ERP, it is connected in the project.
Yes, as part of the bespoke development: each one logs in with their own access, their margin and their logo, and sees their trade price instead of the retail price. Enquiries from private customers are assigned to the shop or installer in their area.
Developments start from €6,500 for a visual configurator of one product family; most projects for manufacturers fall between €14,500 and €35,000, depending on the catalogue, the rules and the integrations, plus maintenance from €190 a month. On top of that, per product: 3D modelling and materials and finishes, from €30 to €120 per part or finish (or more). Timeframe: between 3 and 16 weeks depending on the scope. More in the price of a 3D configurator.
Yes. The sector demo is open, with no registration, with example products and prices.
The sector demo is open: configurador.grup3d.es/demo. An open demo, with no registration, with example products and prices, on desktop, tablet and mobile.
If you would rather see it with your own product in mind, we will show you on a 20-minute video call.
Would you rather talk it through? Call us on 662 061 421 or write to grup3d@grup3d.es.
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