A shop has room for a few made-up beds, a few sofas and a fabric swatch book ten centimetres wide. The rest of the catalogue is sold on paper, and what is not set up hardly sells. A 3D configurator on the shop's tablet, in kiosk mode in the showroom or on the screen at the trade-fair stand puts the whole catalogue in front of the customer, with the manufacturer's rules and price list, and sends the request to the shop that served them.
The salesperson stops showing a photo on the tablet of a different headboard, in a different colour, in a different bedroom.
Saturday in a bedding shop. A couple have already chosen a mattress and now it is the bed's turn. The wingback headboard they like is on the back wall, in grey; the storage base is in another aisle, in beige; and the fabrics are in a swatch book of little squares. She wants green velvet; he cannot picture a whole headboard in that colour. They take the mattress and say they will think about it.
With the configurator on the tablet, the salesperson builds the whole bed in front of them: the lift-up storage base that opens, the wingback headboard, the “Velvet” family and the matching bedside tables, with the bedroom's light and, if they want, at night. Every fabric carries its surcharge and the indicative price is recalculated. The PDF comes out with the bed as they saw it, and the request is assigned to that shop.
The same in a flooring shop (the floor plank by plank in the customer's living room, with the boxes counted), in a pool showroom (the shell on their plot, with the boundaries) or at an electrical wholesaler (the strip with its power supply calculated at the counter). See the full example in bed and bedroom configurator.
Three things a shop configurator has to do and a web configurator does not need.
In the showroom or at the trade fair, the tablet or the screen stays in kiosk mode: when nobody touches it, it returns to the home screen on its own and does not stay on the last customer's configuration or show their details.
A demonstration that runs through the product on its own, changing finishes and sizes, on the screen at the stand or in the shop window. It draws in passers-by and shows the catalogue with nobody in front of it.
At trade fairs and in shops with poor coverage, the configurator keeps working offline and the request is stored until there is a connection. The bedroom demo has all three: kiosk mode, automatic demonstration and offline use.
For the manufacturer who sells through shops, the configurator on the tablet is the showroom that does not fit in any of them.
Every headboard limited to its sizes and every base to its heights; every fabric with its surcharge. What gets noted down in the shop exists and gets made, and the order arrives complete: model, size, base, headboard, fabric and accessories.
A single price list for the whole network, with each shop's surcharges and discounts, which you change from the panel. Every shop quotes with the same version.
Each shop has its user and its code; whatever is configured with it is in its name. Requests from the manufacturer's website are assigned to the nearest shop by postcode, as in the bedroom demo.
The same 3D serves to show the mattress from the inside, layer by layer, on the product page of the manufacturer's website, and the configurator on each shop's website with one line of code.
In any product that is sold in a showroom and made to measure or with many options.
There are more short answers in frequently asked questions about 3D configurators and who we are in 3D configurator company.
Yes. It has kiosk mode, automatic demonstration and offline operation, designed for tablets in shops and for trade fairs. Requests are stored and sent when the connection returns.
A mode for showroom tablets and screens in which the configurator returns to the home screen on its own when nobody touches it, without leaving the last customer's configuration or details on view, and with an automatic demonstration that runs through the product for shop windows and trade fairs.
Yes. Each shop has its user and its code, with its discount and its margin if it resells, and whatever is configured with it is in its name. Requests from the manufacturer's website are assigned to the nearest shop by postcode.
In the demos the textures are our own, as samples. In your configurator go the photos of your fabrics, decors or finishes, with their names, families and surcharges; they are loaded from your catalogue with a template and updated without touching the design.
Yes. The hotel order lets you state how many beds of each size are needed and generates the order sheet in PDF with the price list's volume discount, for the sales team to confirm.
Development starts from €6,500 for a visual configurator of one product family; most manufacturer projects fall between €14,500 and €35,000, depending on catalogue, rules and integrations, plus maintenance from €190/month. Kiosk mode, the automatic demonstration and the per-shop area are at the level with rules and price. Details in the price of a 3D configurator.
Try the bedroom demo on a tablet, with kiosk mode, automatic demonstration and offline use, and the others, with no sign-up and with sample products and prices, at configurador.grup3d.es/demo.
With your shops in front of you? Tell us how many there are and what fits in the showroom today, and in a 20-minute video call you will see the configurator with your range and your fabrics on a tablet. No commitment.
Would you rather talk it through? Call us on 662 061 421 or write to grup3d@grup3d.es.
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