Work / Doors & Windows
Doors and windows are made to measure, priced by the millimetre, and specified by people who can't see the result until it's installed. A 3D door configurator guides buyers through every choice, shows the door as it will be built, and hands you a complete, priced specification.
01The Problem
A single door range can come in pivot, hinged, sliding and arched variants, in any width and height, with several glass types and frame finishes, left or right handing, and a choice of hardware. Multiply that across a few series and the configurations run into the thousands. Some of them aren't valid at all: that handle doesn't fit that profile, and that glass isn't offered in that series.
So most manufacturers fall back on the showroom and the quote form. A homeowner, builder or architect browses samples, describes what they want, and waits days for a price. Every enquiry starts with a scoping conversation, quotes get revised, and anyone outside showroom hours or driving distance simply goes elsewhere, often to the national brand with the bigger catalogue.
A door configurator turns that into a guided flow. Each step shows only the options that are still valid, the 3D door updates as choices are made (the glass looks like glass, the finish catches the light, the dimensions scale exactly) and the price recalculates with every change. What arrives in your inbox is a quote request with the full spec and a price the customer has already seen.
02Your Options
Door and window manufacturers usually weigh three approaches. The right one depends on how deep your range is and how complex your pricing rules are.
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PDF brochures, a sample showroom, and a form that captures what the buyer thinks they want.
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Flat elevation builders, or hosted 3D platforms with generic option rules.
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A step-by-step wizard with your series, rules and pricing engine in code, rendered with React Three Fiber.
Weighing a platform against a custom build? Read the build-vs-buy breakdown.
03Integrations
A door configurator earns its keep in what happens after the last step.
Base price per series, dimensional scaling, and surcharges for glass, finish and hardware, validated server-side so the quoted price can't drift from what the customer saw.
Which glass each series supports, which hardware fits which door type, and size limits per profile, encoded once and shared by the wizard and the backend.
Quote requests stored with the exact configuration and price, emailed to sales, and kept somewhere you control.
Linked from your site, embedded in a page, or added to a WooCommerce or Shopify cart for products you sell outright.
Specs posted to your CRM, or exported in a format your ordering system can import instead of being re-keyed from an email.
Add a series, change a surcharge or retire a finish without a developer. That's part of our Enterprise scope.
04Case Study
Premium Slimline Door Manufacturer · AU
A premium Australian manufacturer of slimline glass doors (pivot, hinged, arched and sliding, across nine series) needed to sell a fully made-to-order range beyond their showrooms. Every door is built to the customer's dimensions, with a choice of glass, aluminium finish, hardware and handing.
We built a 7-step guided wizard (location, style, handing, colour, size, hardware, glass) with a React Three Fiber 3D preview that updates at every step. Clear, reeded, frosted and tinted glass are rendered with real transmission and roughness, frames scale parametrically to the entered size, and handles swap with the style and handing. A pricing engine recalculates on every change, and the final step submits a quote request carrying the full specification and the price shown.
Behind it sits an Express backend for products, options, pricing rules and quotes, so the pricing engine and dependency logic can evolve without touching the customer-facing UI. The project took about three months and fell in our Enterprise tier, driven by the pricing engine and the cross-step dependencies across nine series.
05FAQ
Send your product range, a price list and a few photos. We'll reply by email within 24 hours with how a guided configurator would work for it, and what it would cost.
Not ready for a full build? Explore the Pilot: One product as a live 3D configurator in about two weeks. The full $2,500 is credited toward a full build within 6 months.