Custom body build costing app development for vehicle bodybuilders
Appfront builds apps for coachbuilders who want to calculate a body build at the customer's premises. The sales adviser chooses the chassis, assembles the body with dimensions, materials and options, and immediately sees the price, the weight and how much payload remains. The customer receives a quote with a sketch, and once approved, the calculation passes to production planning without retyping.
What is a body build calculation app in coachbuilding?
A body builder fits a body onto a chassis: a box truck, a tipper, a refrigerated body or something custom. Every body is different. The customer wants to know what it costs and how much payload remains, because every kilo of body comes off the payload. The price depends on materials, hours and options, and not every combination fits every chassis.
In practice, the sales adviser takes the client's requirements, then builds the costing later at the office in a spreadsheet. The weight is estimated. An option that cannot be built only comes to light in production planning. The client waits days for a quote and meanwhile compares with another builder. And once agreed, the costing is re-entered for production.
We build custom solutions because bodybuilders differ: which superstructures you build, how you cost, which options and materials you use, and which systems you run. The prices, hours and rules come from your own costing; the app makes them usable at the table with the client. Which requirements apply to vehicle approval remains with your production planning and the authorities.
Configuring with the client
Chassis, superstructure, dimensions, materials and options chosen at the table, with the price shown alongside.
Weight and payload
The weight of the superstructure and the payload that remains, visible immediately.
From quote to production
A quote with sketch and agreement, and the costing passed on to production planning without retyping.
How we build your superstructure costing app for the bodybuilding industry
We start with your costing: which superstructures, which materials and options, how price and weight are determined today, and which combinations are not possible. Those rules often sit in the heads of a few people. We record them so that a sales adviser at the table produces a costing that production planning does not need to correct.
Your superstructures, materials, options, rules and systems.
Choosing chassis and superstructure, with price and weight.
Sketch, quote and the client's agreement.
To production planning and ERP, and then ongoing maintenance.
What a superstructure costing app for the bodybuilding industry concretely does
The components below come up at almost every bodybuilder. Which ones you need depends on your superstructures.
Chassis
Wheelbase, weights and axle loads.
Superstructure
Type, dimensions and materials.
Options
Tail lift, refrigeration, side doors.
Price
From your costing rules.
Payload
Weight and what remains.
Quote
With sketch and agreement.
Who we build a superstructure costing app for the bodybuilding industry for
The app is intended for those who sell and cost superstructures.
Coachbuilders
Many variants. Configuration is the core.
Refrigerated and freezer bodies
Heavy superstructures. Payload matters most.
Dealers
Superstructures sold with a chassis. Speed is what is needed.
Trailer builders
Custom work on request. The handover is the core.
Test your idea first: a working prototype in 1 day
With OneDayBuild, we turn your idea into something tangible in one day for €1,150, so you can see whether further development is worth the investment. Decide to go ahead with the full build? Then we credit the full cost.
Explore OneDayBuild →Technology and integrations
This page is about calculating superstructure builds for the client. For calculation in general, there is our page on costing software, for bills of materials our page on bill of materials management for metal products, and for assembly our page on a product configurator. You can read about our approach on custom software development.
Why Appfront for your superstructure costing app for the bodybuilding industry?
A quote that sits for days, and a costing that has to be corrected in production planning, cost an order. We build around that: configuring with the client, weight and payload visible immediately, and a quote that can pass straight to production.
Faster quotes
At the table with the client.
No surprises
Payload known immediately.
No re-entry
The costing flows through to production.
Security and privacy in a superstructure costing app for the bodybuilding industry
The app holds data on clients, prices and costings. Access is set up by role, and your costing rules are only visible to those who are permitted to see them.
The app also works with poor signal at the client's site, and sends everything as soon as there is a connection. Data is stored in a European data centre, with encrypted storage and daily back-ups.
Frequently asked questions about a bodybuilding calculation app for coachbuilders
Questions that coachbuilders ask before they get started.
It lets the sales adviser choose a chassis with the customer and configure a body with dimensions, materials and options, shows price, weight and remaining payload, warns about combinations that are not possible, creates a quote with a sketch and approval, and passes the calculation on to production planning.
From your own costing rules: material prices, hours per component and options, and margins. These are recorded in the app and can be adjusted when prices change.
From the chassis data and the weight of the chosen body and options. The app shows what remains, and warns if a combination limits the payload or an axle load too much. The final calculation stays with your production planning.
Yes. The app makes a simple sketch of the body with the chosen dimensions and options, so the customer sees what is being offered. It is included in the quote.
The calculation goes to production planning, with a bill of materials for materials and options, and can be passed on to your ERP and scheduling. That way nobody has to re-enter the order.
Yes. At a client on an industrial estate, the signal isn't always good. The app keeps working and sends everything as soon as there is a connection.
Ask that first. Some packages have a configurator, and that may be enough. Custom development makes sense if you want to calculate at the customer's site, if you want to see weight and payload straight away, or if the calculation is currently re-entered for production.
A quote for a body, at the table with the customer?
Tell us which bodies you build, how you currently calculate, and how an order reaches production planning. We'll show you what the app looks like.