Custom furniture configurator software for made-to-measure furniture
Appfront builds furniture configurators for makers of custom furniture: the customer or salesperson chooses dimensions, material, layout, fronts and hardware within the limits your production can handle, sees the piece being assembled with the price alongside, and the configuration becomes a quote, a drawing for the customer and a bill of materials with cutting list for the workshop. So a made-to-measure cabinet isn't redrawn three times between showroom, drawing office and saw.
What is furniture configurator software for custom furniture?
A furniture configurator is software in which a piece of furniture is assembled from choices: width, height and depth within the dimensions your machines and materials allow, material and colour from your range, layout with shelves, drawers and doors, and hardware. The configurator shows the piece as you choose, calculates the price according to your costing rules, and checks that the combination can be made. The result is a quote for the customer and a parts list with cutting list for the workshop.
Without a configurator, the customer sends a sketch or visits the showroom, the salesperson takes notes, the drawing office works it out and calculates the price, and the customer hears what it costs a few days later. If they want a different depth, the process starts again. Errors creep in at every handover: a drawer that doesn't fit beside a hinge, a board size that just misses the panel, a price that forgets the material discount.
We build custom solutions because the configurator needs to know your production rules: which sizes your saw and edgebander can handle, which boards and edge materials you stock, how your hardware is selected, how you cost, and which drawing the workshop needs. A generic webshop configurator knows options, but not board sizes, hinge spacing or cutting lists.
Choices within rules
Materials, finishes, layout and fittings as choices, with your production rules underneath: which material works with which option, which size suits which fitting, and what counts as a deviation that a draughtsman needs to review.
Visualisation and pricing while choosing
The furniture built up on screen as the customer chooses, priced according to your costing, so a different depth or an extra drawer is immediately visible in both cost and image.
From configuration to workshop
The configuration as a quote and drawing for the customer, and as a parts list, cutting list and fittings list for the workshop, with nobody having to redraw it.
How we build your furniture configurator software for custom furniture
We start with the last ten custom orders: how the request came in, how often it went back and forth, and where the drawing differed from what the customer thought they were buying.
Which furniture you make to measure, which materials and fittings you stock, what your machines can handle, how you cost, and which systems the workshop and administration use.
The furniture model with its dimensions, options and production rules, the materials and fittings with prices, and the costing as you currently keep it in your spreadsheet.
The configurator for showroom and webshop, the visualisation, the pricing while choosing, and the quote with drawing for the customer.
Bill of materials and cutting list to the workshop, integration with ERP, webshop and production software, followed by maintenance and new furniture models.
What furniture configurator software for custom furniture actually does
The components below appear at almost every maker of custom furniture. Which ones you need depends on your range and on whether the customer configures the piece themselves or the salesperson does.
Furniture models with rules
For each furniture type, the dimensions, options and dependencies: what is possible, what is not, and what counts as a deviation that a draughtsman assesses.
Visualisation
The furniture on screen while choosing, with material and layout, in the showroom and in the webshop.
Pricing while choosing
The costing according to your rules, with material, fittings, processing and margin, immediately visible with every change.
Quote and drawing
The configuration as a quote with drawing and specification for the customer, with approval and ordering from the same configuration.
Bill of materials and cutting list
Panels, edges, fittings and processing from the configuration, as a list for the workshop or as a file for cutting optimisation.
Integrations
Orders to the ERP, configurations from the webshop, materials from the item file, and the cutting list to the production software.
Who we build custom furniture configurator software for
This software is for makers where custom work is the rule, and where working out an enquiry currently means drawing before a price can be given.
Cabinet makers and built-in wardrobes
Lots of size variation on a fixed model. The rules per size and fitting, and the cutting list, are the core.
Furniture makers with a webshop
The customer configures and orders themselves. Visualisation and pricing while choosing matter most.
Interior builders
Custom work as part of a larger project. The quote with drawing and the integration with project administration are what is needed.
Manufacturers with dealers
Dealers configure in the showroom and order from the factory. The configurator for the dealer and the order to the ERP are the core.
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This page is about configuring furniture. For configurators in general, there is our page on a product configurator; for the quote that follows from it, our page on a quote configurator; and for the business as a whole, our page on interior fit-out software. You can read about our approach at software development.
If the furniture your customer configures needs to go to the workshop as a production order with a bill of materials and cutting list, there is our app for custom furniture production orders.
Why choose Appfront for your custom furniture configurator software?
A configurator is only as good as the rules behind it. That is what we build on: your production limits, your costing and your drawings, so that what the customer chooses is also what the workshop makes.
What can be chosen can be made
The rules for saw, edgebander and hardware are built into the configurator. A combination that cannot be made cannot be selected.
The price is the costing
Not an estimate in the showroom and a calculation afterwards, but your costing rules applied to every choice.
The workshop receives the configuration
The bill of materials and cutting list follow directly from what the customer selected. Redrawing, and the errors that come with it, falls away.
Security and privacy in custom furniture configurator software
The software works with your costing rules, purchase prices and margins, with customer data and quotes, and in a dealer portal holding the data of multiple dealers. Access is set up by role: the customer or dealer sees selling prices and their own configurations, the salesperson sees the quotes, the workshop sees the bills of materials, and management sees the costing. Every change to rules and prices is logged with name and date.
The software runs in a European data centre, with encrypted storage and daily back-ups. Integrations with the ERP, the webshop and the production software use their own keys, which can be revoked per integration.
Frequently asked questions about custom furniture configurator software
Questions that furniture makers and interior builders ask before getting started.
It lets the customer or salesperson put together a piece of furniture from dimensions, materials, layout and hardware within the rules of your production, shows the furniture and its price while they choose, and turns the configuration into a quote with a drawing for the customer and a bill of materials with a cutting list for the workshop, integrated with your ERP and webshop.
For each furniture type you define which dimensions are possible, which materials and thicknesses, which layouts suit which size, and which hardware goes with which door or drawer. Anything outside the rules cannot be selected, or is sent to a draughtsman as a deviation. You manage the rules yourself; new materials or hardware are added without us having to review them.
Yes. The same configurator works in the webshop for the customer and in the showroom for the salesperson, with a difference in what is visible: the customer sees selling prices and a simplified selection, the salesperson all options and the option to record a deviation.
As accurate as your costing. The configurator calculates with your material prices, fittings, processing operations and margins, the same rules that are in your spreadsheet today. If a board price changes, the price in the configurator changes from that moment on, and earlier quotes keep their price.
A bill of materials with panels, dimensions, edge finishing and drilling, a hardware list and a cutting list, either as a list on screen or as a file for your cutting optimisation or production software. Which format depends on what your workshop uses; we settle that in the first step.
Yes. An approved quote becomes an order in the ERP with the configuration attached, materials and fittings come from the item master, and the order's progress can be passed back to the customer. We connect to what you use; the configurator does not become a second order administration.
Ask that first. A web-shop configurator with options is enough if your custom work consists of a few choices without dependencies, and a drawing programme with parametric models can produce the drawing and cut list if a draughtsman operates it. Custom work makes sense if the customer or sales rep must be able to configure it themselves, if the price has to match your costing while the customer is choosing, if production rules must limit the options, or if the configuration has to go to the workshop without redrawing.
From choice to price, drawing and cut list, without anyone redrawing?
Tell us which furniture you make to measure, how you cost it now, and how a request currently travels from showroom to workshop. We will show you what the configurator, the price during selection and the parts list look like.