A twenty-centimetre sample says nothing about how a 2.20 metre blind filters the light. Your adviser holds it against the glass, the customer hesitates between translucent and screen fabric, the gathering of the wave is worked out in a notebook and the motor with schedules, as usual, never even gets offered.
The visit is at five, when the customer finishes work. The living room has a 2,200 by 2,400 millimetre window facing west and a television you cannot watch in the afternoon because of the reflections. Your adviser measures, opens the case and spreads out samples of translucent, screen and blackout fabric in several colours. She holds them against the glass one by one, but the seven o'clock sun on a whole panel does not fit in a sample case.
She likes the wave curtain, but asks how much fabric it needs and whether the sand linen will be see-through from the street at night. The adviser works out the width with the gathering in his notebook, the area and an approximate price, and promises to send the quote the next day. When he mentions the motor with schedules, she rules it out as expensive before knowing what it costs. He does not push either: he has another visit at half past seven on the other side of the city.
The next day, at the workshop, someone writes up the notes: width, height, fabric, colour, headrail and pelmet. If the notebook said 2,200 and that was the width of the opening and not of the blind, the mistake is discovered on installation day. The quote goes out by email three days later, when another shop has already sent theirs. The customer takes the samples out of the envelope again, but the afternoon sun is no longer there to help her decide.
Against the glass, a scrap of fabric changes with the hour and with whatever cloud passes. What it does not show is how the whole panel will look or the real difference between translucent, screen and blackout with the afternoon sun. The customer keeps the samples to think about it and decides weeks later, or compares only the price with the first quote that arrives.
What it costs youDecisions that get postponed and sales that go to the fastest quote.
Width of the opening or width of the blind, height to the floor or to the sill, fabric needed for the gathering of a wave curtain: it is all worked out in a notebook, at the customer's home and in a hurry. A number written down wrong is a curtain that does not cover or a blind that drags on the floor, and it is discovered on installation day.
What it costs youItems that have to be remade and second visits nobody charges for.
Motorising with schedules and voice control is the option that most changes the customer's day-to-day, but it gets explained verbally at the end of the visit and sounds like an expense. Without seeing it on their window or knowing its exact price, the customer rules it out. And that “later on”, in practice, almost never comes.
What it costs youYou lose the extra that adds the most value to every window.
After the visit the notes have to be written up, the areas calculated, the headrail, the pelmet and the making-up added, and the quote sent. Between visits and installations it takes a day or two, sometimes more. In that time the customer has asked for two more quotes and no longer remembers which sample they liked.
What it costs youVisits that never become orders because the price arrived late.
An office or a whole home is many windows with the same fabric, headrail and pelmet. Every unit is written down, calculated and made up from the same notes, and one mistake gets multiplied by the number of windows. On a job with fourteen blinds, a colour copied wrong means fourteen blinds to remake.
What it costs youOne single ordering mistake, paid for many times over.
Every visit that does not end in an order costs travel and adviser hours. Replace the values with yours.
€ a month
The values are an example: replace them with yours. The calculation is a simple multiplication and does not come from any study.
The customer switches between translucent, screen and blackout and between seven colours, and sees the blind or curtain at their size in 3D. They open and close it and, in augmented reality, place it on their own window from their phone, in the light of their living room. They decide during the visit, not with the samples in a drawer.
Open and close in 3D and augmented reality
The adviser types in the width and height of the window and the configurator works out the area and the fabric needed; in your version, with your own gathering coefficients for the wave curtain. The dimensions appear on the 3D and are written into the PDF, with no notebook and no figures to write up the next day.
Dimensions and calculation of area and fabric
Motorisation with schedules and voice control is just another option, with its indicative price beside it. The customer switches it on, sees how much it adds and decides on it along with the rest of the order, just like the pelmet that hides the mechanism or the thermal lining. Nobody has to bring it up at the end of the visit.
Options with an indicative price
With your price list inside, the indicative price updates with every change of type, fabric, headrail or extras. The adviser leaves the PDF with the configuration and the price before going, and the customer opens it on their phone with a QR code to look at it calmly that same evening.
Indicative price and PDF
The blind is configured once and the identical units are entered, up to 30. The order sheet comes out with type, size, fabric, colour, headrail, pelmet and motor, with their quantities, ready for the workroom or to go into your ERP without being typed again.
Identical units and an order sheetChoose “Wave curtain”, switch the fabric from translucent to blackout, press “Open” and “Close” and then watch how the area changes as you move the width.
An open demo, with no registration, with example products and prices. It is designed for manufacturers, dealers and installers: private customers are welcome to try it, but we do not sell the product.
We run a test visit with you, from the measurement to the price, with fabrics and a price list like yours.
Most projects for manufacturers fall between €14,500 and €35,000, depending on the catalogue, the manufacturing rules and the integrations. Maintenance and hosting from €190 a month. We start from a base that already works: you are not paying for development from scratch.
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There are more short answers in frequently asked questions about 3D configurators and who we are in 3D configurator company.
Yes. The demo uses three fabric types and seven example colours. In your configurator it is your collections and your rules: maximum sizes per blind type, which fabrics take a thermal lining or which headrails exist for each system. That way the customer cannot configure anything your workroom does not make.
Yes. From the width and the height it works out the area and the fabric needed, and in your version the wave gathering is calculated with your own making-up coefficients. That way the figure matches the one your workroom already uses and the quote comes out with the real fabric, not a notebook estimate.
It varies with how many systems, fabrics and collections have to be loaded, how detailed your making-up rules are and whether you want an area for other installers or a link to your management software. As a reference: 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. We look at your price list and send you the fixed figure in writing, with no commitment.
As just another option on the blind: it is switched on, appears with its indicative price and is written into the order sheet. The customer sees how much it adds at the very moment they are deciding fabric and colour, instead of hearing about it verbally at the end of the visit, when they are already thinking about the total.
Yes. From your website or with a QR code they open the configurator on their phone, with nothing to install, try types and fabrics, see the blind on their window in augmented reality and ask you for a quote with their configuration. You go out to measure already knowing what they want, and the visit is there to confirm, not to start from scratch.
Yes. One blind is configured and the identical units are entered, from 1 to 30 in the demo. The order sheet comes out with all the units and their specifications, and the customer can compare up to three options — pearl grey screen against graphite blackout, for example — with the differences highlighted before approving the project.
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