A showroom has room for three of your models; the rest of the catalogue is sold with a fabric swatch, a brochure and a handwritten order that someone at the factory has to interpret. With a 3D configurator, the customer and the shop see the piece with your sizes, your finishes and your price list, and the complete order reaches the factory.
Saturday morning, in a shop that sells your catalogue. A couple sit down on the chaise sofa on display in grey, but they want it in terracotta, with the slim arm and half a metre shorter. The salesperson rests a fabric swatch on the arm and asks them to imagine it. The couple leave with two samples in their bag, and that sale has just slipped further away.
On Monday, your technical office opens its inbox: the same kitchen in three colours, images of an office workstation “for Thursday”, a quote on the price list from two seasons ago. The two people who know how to answer spend the day redoing versions nobody has signed.
The order that does get signed arrives on a paper form or over the phone, and someone types it in again for the factory. In the margin it says “right-hand chaise”, without saying whether that means looking at the sofa or sitting on it. If a measurement was of the opening and not of the door leaf, it comes to light during installation, in the customer's home, and the piece is made all over again.
In the shop, in the technical office and at the factory. Under each sentence, how it gets solved.
Each shop has room for three or four of your models. The rest lives in the brochure, and the customer decides with a swatch or a single door, or takes the samples home.
With the configuratorAny combination in the range in 3D, on the shop's tablet, and at real size in their own home in augmented reality, with nothing to install.
A 2.38-metre gap between two walls, a chaise that might block the way out to the terrace, a bench on an empty office floor. Without seeing it at their own size, the customer does not sign, or finds out on delivery day that it does not fit.
With the configuratorDimensions on the 3D, a person for scale beside it and your rules underneath: nobody can order what you do not make.
The shop asks for variants in colour, handle or arm. Each one goes through the technical office as a new project, even if only one finish changes.
With the configuratorThe customer tries the variants with the salesperson and compares versions side by side, with the differences highlighted. Only the chosen one reaches the office.
Power recliners, a pull-down rail, concealed hinges, sensor lighting or a motor with schedules all raise the order value, but they are explained verbally. If the customer neither sees them nor knows their price, they do not add them.
With the configuratorEach extra appears as an option, with a label on the 3D that explains it, and adds its amount to the indicative price from your price list.
Chaise side, leaf or opening width, fabric reference: it all travels to the factory on a paper form or in a phone call. And a made-to-measure piece made wrong cannot be sold to another customer.
With the configuratorThe order sheet comes from the closed configuration, with every reference and its quantity: what was chosen on screen is what reaches the factory.
Some shops use the printed price list; others, their own spreadsheet and their own margin. You do not know what is being offered in your name, and whoever finds you online does not know which shop to go to.
With the configuratorIn the project, each shop gets its own area with your price list and its margin, and whoever configures on your website is sent to the shop in their area.
Three models on display and a swatch book. You lose: the customer who cannot picture it.
Variants the shop asks the office for. You lose: hours on projects nobody signs.
With the printed price list or each shop's spreadsheet. You lose: control over the price.
A paper form or a phone call, typed in all over again. You lose: the misunderstood measurement.
At the customer's home, where the mistake shows up. You lose: the margin on the piece made twice.
The problem is not your product. It is that almost everything you make is sold without being seen assembled, and that every order passes through too many hands before it reaches the factory.
We do not know your figures; you do. Replace the example values with your own.
| Item | Example | How it is calculated |
|---|---|---|
| A · Orders per month from shops and distributors | 120 | All product families |
| B · Orders that need correcting | 3 % | A measurement, a side, a finish or a missing part |
| C · Cost of correcting each one | €180 | Making it again, delivery and a second installation |
| D · Versions per month redone by the technical office | 40 | Colours, sizes and variants for the shops |
| E · Hours per version | 1.5 h | Image, drawing and quote |
| Yearly cost of corrected orders | €7,776 | A × B % × C × 12 months |
| Hours a year spent redoing versions | 720 h | D × E × 12 months |
And what does not show up in the sum: the sales that go cold while the third version arrives, and the extras nobody showed.
A 3D furniture configurator is a web application where the customer, the shop or the distributor picks a piece from your catalogue, changes sizes, finishes, fabrics and extras, and sees it in 3D instantly, with an indicative price calculated from your price list, with nothing to install.
For a manufacturer it is a sales and ordering tool: it applies your rules and turns the closed configuration into a PDF and an order sheet for the factory. Torn between this and a good catalogue? We compare them in 3D configurator vs PDF catalogue.
Each with its own page and an open demo, with no registration, with example products and prices.
For the workshop that designs, makes and installs: 46 module types, warnings that come with a fix, a from–to price and a workshop sheet. Also wardrobes, walk-in closets and nine made-to-measure furniture pieces.
For the manufacturer with a network of shops: straight, L-shaped or with an island, fronts in one or two colours and the order with the modules already counted.
Hinged, sliding or doorless, made to fit the opening, with the doors open in 3D to choose what goes inside.
Single workstation, a bench for 2 to 8 people or a meeting table, with screens, power and monitor arms, and the order already counted.
Shape, chaise side, arms, fabric, firmness, recliner and legs, with the dimensions on the 3D and the sofa at real size in their living room.
The mattress from the inside, layer by layer, firmness for one or two people, a comparison tool, base, ottoman bed and headboard, and the nearest shop.
Hinged or barn-style sliding, with the structural opening and the clear passage calculated, finish, handle, concealed hinges, privacy lock and architraves.
The professional enters the width, depth and load of the cabinet, and gets the runner or fitting they need, with its reference.
Type, fabric, colour, thermal lining, headrail, pelmet and a motor with schedules, with the area and the fabric calculated as soon as the size is entered.
The mattress inside and the complete bed in 3D, with a lift-up storage base, a slatted-frame bed, wingback or curved headboards, 24 fabrics in 6 families and augmented reality.
The decors inside the kitchen, wardrobe and furniture configurator, loaded from Excel, with matching ABS edging, combinations and sample requests.
Images from the demos, with example catalogues and prices. Another product? All 3D configurators.
What the demos already do and what gets connected in the project.
Every reference with its quantity; for kitchens and made-to-measure furniture, also a workshop sheet and a CSV.
Image, dimensions and indicative price, and a QR code to carry on from their phone.
The contact with everything they chose; in the project, distributed by area and connected to your CRM.
Developed in the project: your price list with their margin and their logo.
Your price list behind every price; for kitchens and made-to-measure furniture, the price list and the enquiries are managed from a panel.
On your website, under your brand; the mattress one also on the product page of your online shop, with a single line of code. The ERP is connected in the project.
We start from configurators that already work: you are not paying for development from scratch. You provide the catalogue and the price list, drawings or CAD files if you have them, fabrics and finishes, and your brand.
Models, modules, fabrics, finishes, fittings and extras.
Minimum and maximum sizes and what you do not make.
Prices, extras, shop margins and areas.
A test version and go-live on your website.
The exact amount is agreed in writing, after studying your case.
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 and in how much a 3D product configurator costs.
There are more short answers in frequently asked questions about 3D configurators and who we are in 3D configurator company.
It is a web application where the customer or the shop picks a piece from your catalogue, changes sizes, finishes, fabrics and extras and sees it in 3D instantly, with an indicative price from your price list. When the configuration is closed, out come the PDF and the order sheet for the factory.
Nine, all with an open demo: kitchens, wardrobes and made-to-measure furniture, kitchen for manufacturers, wardrobes, office furniture, sofas, mattresses and beds, internal doors, fittings and blinds and curtains. Another product? It can be developed to order if it has clear rules for sizes and compatibility.
Yes. In the project, an area is set up for each shop or distributor, with your price list and their margin, and their logo on the PDF. A price change is made once and reaches everyone, and whoever configures on your website is assigned to the shop in their area.
Yes; that is what gets developed to order. The demo uses a generic catalogue; yours carries your fabrics, finishes and sizes, and your rules: which fabrics each model accepts or which combinations you do not make.
The order sheet with every reference and its quantity, and the PDF with the piece and its dimensions, as chosen on screen. For kitchens, wardrobes and made-to-measure furniture, also the workshop sheet with the cutting list and the CSV. The connection to your ERP is developed in the project.
No. It opens in the browser on a computer, tablet or phone, with no registration, and with augmented reality the customer places the piece at real size in their home or office, without downloading any app.
That is not what it is for: the design software is still needed for the technical project and the final render. The configurator covers what comes before and after: the customer arrives having decided, and the order reaches the factory without being typed in again.
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. 3D modelling and materials and finishes are quoted separately, per product, from €30 to €120 per part or finish (or more). More detail in the price of a 3D configurator.
All eleven configurators for the sector have an open demo, with no registration, with example products and prices, in the cards above.
If you would rather see it with your own catalogue in mind, we will show you on a 30-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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