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— Decision · Build or buy
Custom configurator or SaaS configurator?
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.
SBFS builds custom configurators, and will still tell you when a subscription one is the right call. A SaaS configurator starts faster and is fine for a fixed catalog with light options. Custom wins when the rules are the product: Muebles Torga needed compatibility rules a template tool cannot express, and AV Drop needed the configurator to be the product itself, with Stripe subscriptions, usage credits and per-organisation inventory around it.
02— Fit
Who this is for
Your options are rules, not a list
If what can be built depends on what else was chosen, a dropdown-driven tool runs out before your catalog does.
Pricing depends on who is asking
Retail, trade and dealer tiers, volume and regional pricing. Per-seat tools rarely model that logic, and never let you own it.
The tool is the business
If your customers subscribe to the configurator itself, you cannot rent the thing you are selling.
03— Capabilities
What we build
Where a SaaS configurator is the right answer
A fixed catalog with light options, a small budget and a short runway. If that is the whole job, we say so during scoping and refer you to teams that are better positioned.
Where rules break a template tool
Muebles Torga needed parts that do not physically fit to be impossible to combine. Making impossible orders impossible to place cut customer-service tickets by 72%.
Where the widget stops
A configurator SaaS renders the product and stops there: no checkout, no dealer portal, no link to production, and per-seat fees for logic that lives in someone else's system.
Where the configurator is the product
AV Drop sells the design tool itself: Stripe subscriptions, usage credits, saved designs, reusable templates and per-organisation inventory. That business cannot be rented from a vendor.
05— Method
How an engagement runs
01
Week 1 · Scope and catalog audit
We model your catalog and the rules behind it, then write the spec. That week is also where we tell you if a custom build is not what you need.
02
Weeks 2 to 6 · Build to MVP
Configurator, pricing rules, checkout or billing, portal and admin ship in parallel, with a reviewable demo every Friday in your own staging environment.
03
Week 6 · Production handoff
Deployed to your domain on your Vercel team and your Neon database. Your team is trained on the system, and we stay on retainer for tuning, not maintenance.
06— FAQ
Questions buyers ask before they commit.
07— Related
Related solutions
10 — Get in touch
Got a configurable product? Let us talk.
Fastest way to start
Book a 20-minute intro call
Pick a time that suits you — you'll get a Google Meet invite. We look at your product, your catalog, and whether a six-week Forge build is the right fit. No slides, no pressure.
See available times
See available times Rather send details in writing?juan@sbfs.co
Direct to Juan. Twenty-four hour reply, typically. If we cannot take your project on, we will tell you fast.
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