Every proposal on your desk claims the same thing. Here is who builds them, the four questions that separate the builders, and where we stand on each.
The storefront buyers land on. Every door in the catalog opens into the configurator.
SBFS builds custom 3D product configurators for made-to-order manufacturers, at published prices from a $4,000 one-time Pilot, and Door Builder, NOMI and OrthoSolid run on them in production. Other custom builders include Salsita, Program-Ace and Smart Dato. To choose, ask four questions: do they model your manufacturing rules, do they ship the whole sales channel or a widget, who owns the code, and are the price and the date set before you commit?
Updated: Nov 2026
Salsita, based in Prague with offices in Ostrava and Atlanta, sells its own 3D Configurator and Visual CPQ, and says each configurator is "purpose-built for the rules, workflows, and outputs your industry demands". It fits when you want custom work and a licensed product from one vendor (salsita.ai, read November 2, 2026).
Program-Ace, headquartered in Nicosia, Cyprus, builds configurators in "Unity or WebGL" where the customer "places a valid, manufacturable order, wired straight into your pricing and ERP". It fits when you want the 3D built in Unity (program-ace.com, read November 2, 2026).
Smart Dato builds "browser-based 3D product configurators" for "European B2B companies", with data flowing "to your ERP, CRM, or production system" and a prototype typically in 4 to 8 weeks; its site is in English, German and Italian. It fits when you want a prototype to judge before the full build (smart-dato.com, read November 2, 2026).
Option rules should mirror manufacturing constraints. Door Builder configures against what the shop floor can route, so every quote is one the shop can build.
Catalog, configurator, cart and checkout, customer portal and admin should ship together. A configurator bolted onto a request-a-quote form still ends in a quote form.
You should own the source code and the data, with no license or per-seat fee. Ours, the platform framework included, can live in your GitHub or GitLab and run on your cloud accounts from the start, or on ours while we operate it.
They should be, once the rules are mapped. Our prices are published, from a $4,000 one-time Pilot on your own site to $50,000 and up for the full channel, with a monthly fee on each build tier, and Diagnose, which is included, ends in a quote inside your tier and a date.
Quotes that took Door Builder's sales team about two and a half weeks now take a dealer four minutes. Dealers design, price and order doors on their own, residential and commercial pricing applies by itself, and every order that comes in is a door the shop can actually build.
Architects place NOMI's configured furniture straight into their building plans, and every trade quote lands in the sales pipeline without anyone typing it in again. Designers get trade pricing and saved projects; retail buyers get standard pricing, from the same configurator.
Clinicians and distributors design custom 3D-printed wrist, hand and finger braces themselves, and each order goes straight to manufacturing, in five languages. No paperwork between the clinic and the printer.
We model your catalog, your option rules and your pricing tiers with your own team, then write the spec. You see exactly what we will build before we start.
Configurator, pricing, checkout, portal and admin ship in parallel, with a reviewable demo every Friday on your own test site.
Launched on your domain, then we stay on: new product lines, rules, prices and integrations, under the monthly fee of your tier. The code and data are yours.
You need a number and a date you can take to a board. Here are our prices, what each covers, and what is outside them.
A subscription configurator is faster to start and fine for a catalog of fixed products. The question is whether your rules, your pricing and your portal are the product.
Configure, price, quote. For a made-to-order manufacturer that means the buyer does all three in the browser, and what comes out is an order rather than a PDF.
Pick a time and you'll get a Google Meet invite. We agree on one of your products and its options, and within one business day you see it working on a private link. No slides and no sales pressure.
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