Window Designer - designed for the UK's window and door industry

Elevate your product offerings with Window Designer’s integrated Product Designer suite, enabling precise customisation and visualisation for uPVC, aluminium, and timber window and door products. Empower your team to create unique designs that enhance customer satisfaction and streamline production processes.

• Frame Designer: Easily create and customise various window types, including fixed window, vertical sliding, casement, and tilt-and-turn, with detailed design, materials, and pricing.
• Flagged Frame Designer: Quickly generate templates for standard or custom multi-window openings, streamline data entry, and design complex bay or bow windows with 3+ sections, including detailed materials and pricing.
• Composite Door Designer: Create a detailed, high-quality image of the door, including glass and hardware, in real-time, ensuring accurate Bills of Material are produced every time.

For fast implementation process and easy changes, leverage Window Designer's comprehensive catalogue library and parent child bills of materials management tools, designed for an ever-changing market.

• Templates to Kick-start: Window Designer offers template product supplier lists to get you up and running quickly, with the flexibility for each manufacturer to maintain, including Veka, Eurocell, Liniar, Garnalex, SMARTS, ALUK, ALUNet and many more.
• Catalogue Setup: Assign multiple products from different suppliers per project, offering the best materials for complex projects to achieve the best job margin.
• Catalogue Management: As you expand and change the product offerings, take advantage of inheritance that multiple material lists offers allowing updates to master data to then cascade down.

Get instant visibility into quotes, orders, customer value, and product trends with a CRM built for speed and simplicity. Empower your team with intuitive tools to make smarter decisions - no training or complex setup required.

• Point-and-click navigation with pre-built widgets: Navigate effortlessly through a clean, concise interface designed for quick access to your most important CRM data without any complex setup or training.
• Real-time, on-screen interactive reporting: Access up-to-the-minute reports that provide instant visibility into quotes, orders, product trends, and customer metrics, empowering timely, data-driven decisions.
• Customer value analysis tools: Monitor customer buying behaviour and sales performance easily, helping you identify your most valuable accounts and uncover opportunities for growth and targeted engagement.

Expand your sales capabilities and increase efficiency with Window Designer, enabling your retailers to create their own estimates and orders, and check order statuses online. This secure, password-protected add-on to Window Designer serves as a full customer information system, including order history.

• Effortless online integration: Window Designer Cloud Retailer uses your existing pricing, and configuration settings with no additional setup required.
• Empower your retailers: Allow retailers to present your products with configured options, mirroring the functionality of Window Designer.
• On-demand synchronisation: Push updates as needed to ensure everyone is working with the same information as your internal customer service representatives.

Window Designer supports a variety of pricing methods and models, allowing for flexible and accurate pricing strategies.
Whether you’re applying discounts, markups, or group-specific pricing, Window Designer ensures that your costing methods align with your business needs.

• Flexible pricing models: Support for list pricing, discount from list, markup from cost, and more, catering to diverse business requirements.
• Specify markup cost: When utilising mark-up from cost, decide between methods that will best reflect the variable market with tight competition and ensure consistent margins. 
• Tiered pricing rules: Account for the sales team and customer commitments to solve for special pricing, group discounts, and other tailored pricing strategies. 

Streamline your production process with Window Designer’s Dynamic Bills of Material configurator. In addition to the product configurators for pricing and visualisation, add a dynamic bills of material to define cost, stock holding, and production of both mass-customised and complex window and door products with ease.

• Flexible configuration: Handle a wide range of product variations, from mass-customised items to unique, complex designs, ensuring you meet diverse customer needs.
• Enhanced customisation: Meet diverse customer demands with ease, allowing for greater market responsiveness.
• Increased throughput: Streamlined processes mean faster turnaround times, helping you stay competitive in the market.

Streamline your purchasing processes and enhance vendor communication with Window Designer’s PO Export capability. Simplify order processing offering electronic files for your suppliers to import into their ERP solution.

• Customisable EDI Exports: Send purchase orders through tailored EDI connections, ensuring accurate, automated data exchange.
• Stronger Supplier Relationships: Enhance communication and accelerate order fulfillment with reliable, automated data transfers that build trust and collaboration.

Improve the efficiency and accuracy of your warehouse operations with Window Designer’s Stock Assistant. Utilise data-driven insights to make better decisions, reduce operational costs, and minimise manual errors through real-time tracking tools.

• Supply Chain Management: Quickly locate orders, based on bills of materials, that have supplier issues, allowing tight management of supply chain.
• Data-driven Insights: Leverage real-time data to enhance decision-making and operational efficiency across your warehouse.
• Three-Way PO Matching: Ensure accuracy and financial control by matching purchase orders, receipts, and invoices seamlessly, reducing errors and streamlining accounting workflows.

Maximise material efficiency and reduce waste with advanced lineal optimisation algorithms for uPVC and aluminium that enhance yield and improve cost-effectiveness.

• Batch optimisation: Specify bin size and bin complexity to achieve the best yield from available lineal bars and production space allotment.
• Sub-batch optimisation: Group production not just by order, but batch based on colour, product type, and complexity for optimal yields.
• Cost savings: Increase yield and reduce material costs by optimising lineal utilisation across large jobs.

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Improve production visibility and control with Window Designer’s Barcode Tracking module. Empower your manufacturing with accurate WIP and finished good tracking and real-time progress updates from cutting to dispatch.

• Real-time production tracking: Collect intermediate production status information at key production areas, providing up-to-date insights.
• Enhanced workflow visibility: Visually display key production information, including finished good images to station workers, facilitating better coordination.
• Production efficiency across multiple lines: Use rack-slot assignments and barcode scanning to streamline parallel production of frames, sashes, and glass, minimising downtime.

Optimise your shop floor operations with Window Designer’s Machine Integration capabilities. Interface seamlessly with open architecture systems and a wide range of production equipment.

• Existing interfaces: Utilise existing connections to popular production equipment including, saws, welders, machining centres, CNC equipment, and more. 
• Flexible material routing: Configure machine interfaces to program routing rules and codes to the dynamic BOM or options per the machine's production specifications.

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Ensure accurate and timely delivery with Window Designer’s Shipping and Delivery solutions. 
Accurate and timely deliveries improve customer trust and satisfaction, leading to repeat business.

• Efficient vehicle loading: Optimise shipping routes and load sequencing to cut transportation costs and minimise unnecessary material handling.
• Increase on-time delivery: Guarantee the right product is on the right truck, every time, improving delivery reliability.
• Seamless paperwork: Generate delivery notes that match customer orders and invoices, for drivers and customers alike.