Bringing designs to life
The Consultancy has added a new interactive visualiser tool to the Touch Vendor lead generation and quoting software, which makes it easy for homeowners to see exactly how the windows and doors they have chosen will look in their property.
Branded Virtual Home, it allows users to see their window and door choices on every facade of the property, and view them from the inside as well as out.
It works just as well in quote and survey mode, the company said, when installers are using Touch Vendor to sell either remotely or face to face, as it does in lead generation mode, when homeowners are creating their own designs via the lead generation tool on the installer’s website.
Doors and windows processed using the Touch Vendor design tool can be superimposed onto any house image and manually positioned to get an accurate result. Users can change the style and colour as many times as they like and try out different looks before they buy.
The Virtual Home feature pops up automatically as soon as the Vendor user has added their chosen windows and doors to their virtual basket. They can upload as many images of the property as they like and see how the products will look from the kerbside or the garden or even from the inside looking out.
In quote and survey mode, the Virtual Home feature automatically adds a PDF of the finished design to the quote, alongside the product details and price ready to send to the customer. In lead generation mode, it adds the PDF to the enquiry acknowledgement that the customer receives, and to the enquiry notification sent to the installer. All the installer has to do then is check the product choices and provide a price.
Paul Callaghan, director of The Consultancy, which created Virtual Home in partnership with the Business Micros software development team, said: “We looked at the limitations of other visualisers on the market and used our experience and expertise to do something better. Touch Vendor users can view their property from front and back and from inside and out and chop and change their design choices to see exactly what works best from different angles.”
