“It looks more modern” is not a benefit: it cannot be measured. These ten can: visits no longer made just to give a price, parts no longer made twice, extras that are now seen and sold, technical-office hours, requests that arrive with the whole configuration. Each one with the example of a demo and the figure worth noting down before and after.
Note down today's figure before you start. It is the only way to know, six months from now, what has changed.
The customer enters their sizes and sees the indicative price before calling; the visit is to confirm. What to measure: visits per month that end without an order. In the terrace enclosure demo, the customer arrives at the visit already knowing the system and the roof.
The handing is chosen while looking at the open sash, sizes outside the limits are flagged and the order sheet comes out without interpretation. What to measure: parts remade per year because of handing, size or colour noted down wrong.
Motor, sensor, LED, acoustic glass, five-point lock: with one click, with its label in the 3D and with its price. What is seen gets ordered. What to measure: average order value and percentage with extras.
The base calculation (power supply, lux, high-bays, pallet positions, cutting list) comes out on its own with your rules; the technician reviews. What to measure: hours per offer and offers that do not get signed.
End caps, clips, mounting plate, power supply, anchors: the order sheet carries the small stuff, with reference and quantity. What to measure: second shipments for the missing part.
Name, company, email, phone and what they configured, in a panel and by email, assigned by area. What to measure: requests per month and how many arrive with sizes and finishes defined.
The customer sees the fabric on the whole bed, the floor plank by plank in their living room, the pool on their plot. And with augmented reality, at real size in their home. What to measure: days between the first enquiry and the order.
Each distributor, shop or installer configures with the customer in front of them, with their margin and their brand, and sends you the order sheet always the same. What to measure: calls from the network to the factory for a figure.
The residents' association, purchasing, the director, the council: they receive the PDF with the image, the data and the price, or the three versions compared. What to measure: sales stuck waiting for an approval.
What is not set up in the showroom hardly sells; on the shop's tablet the whole catalogue is there, with kiosk mode and offline. What to measure: percentage of the catalogue that sells.
A made-to-measure order passes through five places. At each one time is lost or an error creeps in; with the configurator, they change like this.
| Stop | Today | With the configurator |
|---|---|---|
| Enquiry | A photo, three measurements and “how much would it be?” | The customer sees their product with their sizes and an indicative price |
| Visit | Measuring and showing samples to someone still comparing | Confirming what the customer has already chosen |
| Technical office | Metres, parts and extras in a spreadsheet, and again with every change | Reviewing a calculation done with your rules |
| Approval | Residents' association, committee or purchasing decide without seeing it | They receive the image, the PDF and the compared versions |
| Factory and site | The order is copied by hand and the error shows up at installation | Order sheet with references and quantities, from the same configuration |
Three figures almost every manufacturer knows and that are enough for a first estimate. Put your own in place of the example.
| Figure | Example | What it is |
|---|---|---|
| A · Visits per month just to give a first price | 20 | The ones that end in “we'll get back to you” |
| B · Cost of each visit | €90 | Sales rep hours and travel |
| C · Parts made twice per year | 12 | Because of handing, size or colour noted down wrong |
| D · Cost of each repeated part | €350 | Material, transport and crew |
| Annual cost of visits to give a price | €21,600 | A × B × 12 months |
| Annual cost of repeated parts | €4,200 | C × D |
And what does not show in the account: the extras nobody showed, the offers that arrived late and went to someone else, and the technical-office hours on studies that never get signed. 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. Details in the price of a 3D configurator.
For the benefits to be real it helps to know where they end.
There are more short answers in frequently asked questions about 3D configurators and who we are in 3D configurator company.
That the order arrives defined: the customer or the network choose sizes, finishes and extras with your rules, see the price, and the order sheet comes out with references and quantities. Visits become about confirming, handing and size errors are flagged before manufacturing, and extras are seen and sold.
By noting down, before you start, the figures it is going to change: visits per month just to give a price and their cost, parts made twice per year and their cost, technical-office hours per offer, average order value and requests that arrive with the full configuration. After six months, you compare.
It sells more complete: extras with their price and their label in the 3D get ordered more than on a quote line, and the customer who sees the whole bed or the floor plank by plank decides sooner. How much more depends on your product; that is why it pays to measure the average order value before and after.
Yes. Brands, importers, distributors and installers who sell other people's product get the same benefits: quoting with their price list and their margin, ordering from the manufacturer with its references and receiving requests in their panel. See 3D configurator company for manufacturers and for those who sell without a factory.
The order ones (fewer errors, complete order sheets) from the first week of use; the commercial ones (fewer visits to give a price, more extras) as the website and the network use it. The configurator goes live between 3 and 16 weeks after starting, depending on the scope.
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. Separately, per product, 3D modelling and materials and finishes, at €30 to €120 per part or finish (or more).
The benefits show in five minutes in the open demos, with no sign-up and with sample products and prices: enter an impossible size, switch on an extra, open a sash. All at configurador.grup3d.es/demo.
With your figures in front of you? Tell us how many visits, how many remade parts and how many technical-office hours, and in a 20-minute video call we will see what would change with your product. No commitment.
Would you rather talk it through? Call us on 662 061 421 or write to grup3d@grup3d.es.
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