The council's technician has ten days to close the costed report for a square and asks three manufacturers for data sheets. The specification ends up looking like whichever one arrives first. Here they configure benches, bins or planters, choose material and quantity and download the sheet with a price the same day.
The only planning technician in a council of nine thousand people has been given ten days to close the costed report for the refurbishment of the market square: twelve benches, eight bins, two bike racks and four planters. The mayor wants wood, because the old square was concrete and nobody sat there; the social services councillor wants accessible benches. The technician needs data sheets, unit prices and an image to show at the council meeting, and writes to three manufacturers.
At your factory, that email reaches the sales rep who covers the area, along with four others from similar councils that same week. The data sheet for the 1.8 metre bench in wood and steel with a backrest has to be prepared, the armrests worked out, the fixing specified, the steel colour chart sent and a render of another square attached. If the technician asks for the same bench in corten steel, it starts again. If they ask for the engraved municipal crest, it has to be checked with the workshop.
The technician cannot wait a week. They write with what they have, and the specification ends up describing the characteristics of the sheet that arrived first. When the tender is published, a month later, your sizes and finishes do not match what is described and you compete uphill. And if you are awarded it in the end, the factory order sheet is done by hand again: twelve benches, twenty-four armrests, twelve chemical anchor kits, with the references copied from another job.
Costed reports, urban development projects and minor contracts are prepared with days to spare, not weeks. The technician needs unit price, quantities, data sheet and image all at once, and asks several manufacturers at the same time. Whoever answers first and in full sets the characteristics that end up in the specification; whoever answers late competes against a description that is not theirs.
What it costs youTenders lost before they are even published.
Wood and steel, concrete or corten steel; eight colours for the steel and three wood tones; benches in three lengths, with or without a backrest. Multiplied by four items, it is a catalogue that does not fit in a PDF. Every combination a technician asks for is a new data sheet, a render that does not exist and a price someone works out by hand.
What it costs youA technical office busy with data sheets that often never become orders.
The national accessibility order for urbanised public spaces requires at least one accessible bench per group and one in every five, with a backrest and armrests. If the data sheet does not reflect that, the technician finds out when reviewing and the offer goes back, or the department finds out after they are installed and the problem becomes yours.
What it costs youA badly framed line that discredits the whole offer.
The engraved crest is what the governing team likes most, but it does not appear on the standard data sheet. The workshop has to be asked whether it is possible, how much it costs and how it looks, and meanwhile the quote is on hold. The technician, with the report half written, ends up taking the crest out of the item so as not to fall further behind.
What it costs youThe extra that set your offer apart disappears from the specification.
The refurbishment of a square is voted on by councillors who have seen neither the catalogue nor the colour chart. With a render of another town and a table of unit prices, any resident can say that corten looks like rust or that white gets dirty. The decision is postponed to the next meeting, and with it the tender.
What it costs youMonths of delay on a job that already had a budget line.
Sales and technical office hours go on every data sheet a council asks for, whether it is awarded or not. Put in your own figures instead of the example.
€ a month
The values are an example: replace them with yours. The calculation is a simple multiplication and does not come from any study.
They choose the item, the length, the material and the quantity, and download a PDF with the image, the technical data, the indicative service life, the maintenance and the indicative price. Your area sales rep receives the request with the full configuration. You arrive first, and with your characteristics.
PDF with indicative price and quantitiesThe technician tries the material, the steel colour and the wood tone on the bench in 3D, rotates it and puts up to three versions side by side, with the differences highlighted. The combinations that used to be a new data sheet each are settled on screen, and the technical office only steps in when there is an order.
Materials and colours in 3D with a comparison tool
Backrest and armrests are switched on on the bench itself, seen in the 3D and added to the indicative price; a label points out that the armrests help people stand up. The technician configures the square's accessible benches separately and sees them counted on the order sheet. Checking the regulations is still their job, but it no longer slips through because of an incomplete data sheet.
Backrest and armrests as options
The municipal crest engraving is just another option, with its price included from the first configuration, as are the chemical, recessed or surface fixings. The technician asks for it without waiting for an answer and the extra goes into the costed report instead of falling out for lack of time.
Municipal crest engraving and fixing
Any councillor scans the QR code, opens the bench on their phone with nothing to download and, standing in the square itself, sees it at real size in augmented reality. The meeting gets the image, the PDF and the compared versions, and the discussion stops being about taste.
Augmented reality, QR code and imageConfigure a 1.8 m bench in wood and steel with armrests and a crest, go up to 12 units and download the order sheet to see how the parts are counted.
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 load your catalogue and your price list, and show you the data sheet a council technician would download with the report half written.
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.
A PDF with the image of the configured item, the technical data, the quantities, the indicative service life, the recommended maintenance and the indicative price. Plus the order sheet with references and quantities. With that they can write the costed report or the specification without waiting for you to send a sheet by hand.
The national order regulating accessibility in urbanised public spaces requires at least one accessible bench per group and, in any case, one in every five or fraction thereof, with a backrest and armrests, among other requirements. The configurator offers a backrest and armrests with their price; checking each project is the responsibility of the technician who signs it.
The starting point: 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. From there it depends on the number of items and finishes, how you calculate the price by quantity, whether distributors or installation companies need their own area with their margin and whether every request has to go straight into your CRM. The fixed figure comes once we have seen your catalogue.
The demo includes a bench, a bin, a bike rack and a planter. The bench comes in 1.5, 1.8 or 2.4 metres, with or without a backrest, in wood and steel, concrete or corten steel; the steel in eight colours and the wood in natural, teak or aged tone. Plus armrests, crest engraving, three types of fixing and from 1 to 100 units.
Yes. A contractor doing the groundworks or a studio designing a square needs the same as the council technician: data sheet, image, quantities and price for their budget. Every contact reaches you with their configuration and is assigned to the sales rep for their area, whether it is a council, a contractor or a studio.
Yes. The technical data for each configuration shows the indicative service life and the recommended maintenance; in the demo, a wood and steel bench gives around 15 years and annual oiling for the wood. These are figures the technician usually asks for to justify the choice and which, in your version, come from your own data sheets.
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