Option model and build rules
The choices your product offers — dimensions, materials, finishes, fittings, quantities — and the rules for which combinations can be made, written into the configurator rather than left to the estimator's memory.
PLATE P.5.3 — PRODUCT CONFIGURATORS
Product configurators for made-to-order products, built in Adelaide
A product configurator lets a customer size, specify and price a made-to-order product on your website — blinds cut to a window, a shed to a site, a sign to a wall — with your option rules and price formulas built in, and a production specification produced from every order. Ozwebnet writes configurators from scratch in Adelaide, South Australia, for manufacturers and fabricators across Australia. The source code is delivered and the IP assigned to you, for one fixed quote staged against milestones.
DETAIL OF SHEET 05 — ONLINE STORES →
GENERAL NOTES
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What is a product configurator?
A product configurator is the part of an online store that sells things which do not exist until they are ordered. The customer enters measurements and chooses options; the configurator checks that the combination can be made, prices it from your rules, and shows the result before checkout. Every order comes out as a specification your workshop can build from — dimensions, materials, finish, quantity — rather than a note typed into the comments field. It can end at checkout or at a quote for your approval, depending on how you sell.
SECTION A–A
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Who should build a product configurator?
- BUILT FOR
- Manufacturers, fabricators and joiners who sell to size, specification or quantity — blinds, sheds, signage, cabinetry, steel, print — and whose staff currently price each enquiry by hand.
- REPLACES
- Quote-by-email, spreadsheet price lists, the “call for pricing” button, and a standard store's variant grid stretched past what it can hold.
- NOT FOR
- A catalogue of fixed products with a handful of sizes and colours — a normal product page with variants does that job, and we will say so.
SCHEDULE OF WORKS
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What is included in a product configurator build?
Price engine
Prices worked out from your own formulas — rates by area or length, material surcharges, minimum charges, quantity breaks, freight by size or weight — and shown to the customer as each option changes.
Live drawing or preview
A diagram or rendered preview that redraws as the options change, so the customer sees the product they are specifying and the workshop later sees the same one.
Checkout or quote for approval
A priced configuration goes to the cart and payment, or to a quote your staff approve first where a job needs a site check — whichever suits how you sell.
Job sheet from every order
Each order produces a production specification — dimensions, materials, finish, quantity, customer notes — as a document the workshop prints or a record your job-management or cut-list software reads.
Staff-side adjustment and re-pricing
Your staff open any customer's configuration, change a measurement after a site check, re-price it and send it back for approval — the same record throughout, never re-keyed.
Rule and price administration
Rates, options and rules are changed from an admin screen — a new fabric added, a finish retired, a rate raised — and the configurator picks the change up without a code change.
TYPICAL SCOPE FOR THIS KIND OF SYSTEM — YOUR EXACT SCOPE IS FIXED IN WRITING AT THE SPECIFICATION STAGE.
Not sure which? Ten minutes on 1300 699 321 tells you — Mon–Fri 9–5 ACST.
STAGES
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How is a product configurator built and priced?
One fixed quote, set in writing at the specification stage (02 Blueprint) and staged against the five milestones below. Each milestone ends with a working system; stop at any milestone and keep what has been built.
SEE THE FIVE STAGES ANIMATED →- 01 SURVEY
Discovery
We learn how you quote a job today — the measurements you ask for, the options you offer, the rules your estimator carries in their head, and what the workshop needs on paper.
- 02 BLUEPRINT
Specification
The option model, price formulas, validation rules and the order route are specified in writing; the fixed quote is set here, staged against milestones.
- 03 FORGE
Build
Built rule by rule — options and validation, then pricing, then the preview, then the order and job sheet — each a working milestone you can try against real jobs.
- 04 TEMPER
Testing
Checked against quotes you have already issued, and tested with combinations it must refuse, before a customer sees it.
- 05 DEPLOY
Launch
The configurator goes live on your store, and the source code is delivered with the IP assigned to you.
REQUESTS FOR INFORMATION
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Questions before you call
RFI-01How much does a product configurator cost?
One fixed quote, set in writing before the build and staged against milestones. The scope — option model, price formulas, preview, order route and job sheet — is fixed at the specification stage.
RFI-02Can the configurator use our existing price list and rules?
Yes. Your rates, surcharges, minimum charges and quantity breaks are built in as the configurator's own logic, and your staff change them from an admin screen without a code change.
RFI-03Does every order have to go straight to checkout?
No. A priced configuration can go to the cart and payment, or to a quote your staff approve first — for jobs that need a site check, say — whichever suits how you sell.
RFI-04Do we own the configurator?
Yes. The source code is delivered and the IP assigned to you, so the rules, prices and drawings are yours to change or take elsewhere.
RFI-05Do you build configurators for businesses outside Adelaide?
Yes. Adelaide first, Australia-wide; the survey, build and testing all work remotely.
RFQ — REQUEST FOR QUOTE
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Get a fixed quote for a product configurator.
Call, or answer a few short questions — what you run, what breaks, when you need it working — and we reply within one business day. The quote is fixed in writing before any build starts.