Selling abroad is not translating the catalogue: it is the French distributor seeing their price list in their language, the German customer receiving the PDF in German and the factory getting the same order sheet as always, in Spanish and with your references. How a 3D configurator for export is built: texts per language, price list and rules per country, requests per distributor and one address per language so that you get found in every market.
Five things a configurator for the home market does not need and one for export does.
Option names, rule warnings (“the sash exceeds the maximum width”), PDF texts and the confirmation email. Translating the front page is not enough: the warning that appears when a size does not comply has to appear in the language of whoever is reading it.
Selling price and discounts per market, with its taxes, its transport and its installation by area, loaded from your price list with a template. The same product, with the price of the country where it is sold.
A finish only supplied in one country, a system that is not exported, a glass that changes with local regulations, an accessory that is mandatory in one market and optional in another. The manufacturing rules are the same; the selling rules, per country.
Each distributor logs in with their user, their language, their price list and their margin, and requests from their country are assigned to them. The same professional area as in the pergola demo, with one more field for the country. See B2B configurator for distributors.
You do not build one configurator per language: you build one, with the texts outside the code.
Every text in the configurator (options, warnings, buttons, PDF, emails) has a key and one column per language. We prepare the first translation and your distributor in that country reviews it in the table, without touching anything else. Adding a language is adding a column.
The configurator lives at one address per language (/es/, /fr/, /de/), with the tags that tell search engines which version to show in each country. That way you get found by whoever searches for the product in their language, not just by those who already know you.
Each market's price list is loaded from your template, with versioning: a price change in France is tested and goes to the website without touching the rest. The selling rules per country are set in the same manager.
The customer receives the quote in their language, with their currency and your brand or the distributor's. The factory always receives the same order sheet, in Spanish, with your references and quantities. The customer's language never reaches the workshop.
From the open demos, with no sign-up, with sample products and prices. What changes per country, in each one.
Louvres, roofs and side enclosures with their wind and size limits; the price list and installation per country; the distributor's professional area with their margin and their requests. The most common export product among outdoor manufacturers.
Sizes, entries, load and how many fit in the lorry: what a buyer in any country asks before ordering. A 3D catalogue with the sizes in every language saves half the export emails.
Series, openings, glazing and roller shutters with their limits; the glass or the fitting that changes with each market's regulations is handled as a selling rule per country. Order sheet and cutting list for the factory, always the same.
Levels, load, protectors and anchors, with the order sheet by reference and quantity. In machinery and equipment, the configurator in English is the data sheet the industrial buyer expects to find.
The same configurator, the other way round: the product is made abroad and sold here.
A distributor who imports pergolas, doors or furniture and sells them under their own brand has the mirror-image problem: the manufacturer's catalogue arrives in another language, with other units and with no prices for their market. The configurator is built with the manufacturer's rules (what can be ordered and in what sizes) and with the importer's price list, transport and installation, in their language and with their brand in front.
The order sheet then comes out in the manufacturer's language, with its references, to be sent as it is. It is the same case as the manufacturer who exports, with the roles swapped. See 3D configurator company for manufacturers and for those who sell without a factory.
There are more short answers in frequently asked questions about 3D configurators and who we are in 3D configurator company.
No. You build one with all the texts outside the code, in a table with one column per language. Adding a language is adding a column and reviewing it; the 3D, the rules and the price list are the same.
We prepare the first translation of each language and your distributor or sales rep in that country reviews it in the table, without touching anything else. The technical texts (series names, finishes, warnings) are best reviewed by whoever sells there.
Yes. Each market carries its price list, with its currency, its taxes, its transport and its installation by area, loaded from your template and with versioning. Distributor discounts are applied to their country's price list.
It is set as a selling rule per market: what is not supplied in a country does not appear in its configurator, and what is mandatory there (a glass, an accessory) goes in on its own. The manufacturing rules stay the same for everyone.
Always in the factory's, usually Spanish, with your references and quantities and the same format as domestic orders. The customer receives their PDF in their language; the workshop never sees the customer's language.
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. Each language adds the translation and its review, not a new development. Details in the price of a 3D configurator.
Try the pergola, pallet, window and shelving demos, with no sign-up and with sample products and prices, at configurador.grup3d.es/demo. In a video call we will show you the text table and how a second language goes in.
With your markets in front of you? Tell us which countries you sell in and how orders from abroad reach you today, and in 20 minutes you will see the configurator with your range and a sample price list per country. No commitment.
Would you rather talk it through? Call us on 662 061 421 or write to grup3d@grup3d.es.
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