As a residential builder, adding 3D Online Selections capabilities to your offering can give you an edge over competitors. But with various software solutions on the market, how do you evaluate which is the best fit? Here’s a checklist of key factors to consider.
One of the biggest challenges for residential home builders can be helping clients fully understand and visualise their selections for exterior facades, kitchens, bathrooms, laundries and more in their new home. Selections meeting appointments often leave clients guessing and can lead to indecision, confusion and costly variations down the road.
In today’s visual world, home buyers expect an engaging, transparent selections process. 3D Online Selections can give you a competitive edge by delivering a best-in-class experience that boosts customer experience and confidence. By allowing clients to truly understand their choices upfront, you can streamline your selections timeframes and reduce frustrating revisions.
By evaluating 3D Online Selections software against some key criteria, you can find the right tool to revolutionise your selections process and have clients confident and excited about every decision.
Comprehensive items and materials library
To make selections effortless, the 3D Selections software you choose should provide an extensive, up-to-date library of real-world, selectable items, finishes, materials, textures, fixtures and colours, constantly maintained in collaboration with the latest information from manufacturers and suppliers you work with.
This saves you time from having to source and maintain digital images, product names and product codes, as well as keeping on top of any discontinuations and new product ranges.
With Constructive’s 3D Online Selections and fully maintained and ever-growing Item Library, clients can experiment with design decisions in a visual, intuitive 3D environment.
With just a click or tap, they can swap out items, materials, colours, and more to instantly see the changes on a unique, customised 3D model of their new home.
24/7 accessibility
Your clients expect to be able to access your selections offering with 3D Selections software on their various devices to continuously experiment with options — at times and locations that suit them best — before finalising their decisions.
Constructive 3D Online Selections are available 24/7 on any device with an internet connection, to make decision-making easier for your clients. They can explore their design ideas in interactive 3D and tally costs at any time online from their mobile phone, tablet, laptop or desktop computer.
Unique, personalised and affordable 3D models
A static or generic render of a display home is not going to cut it. Interiors and exteriors need to be modelled in interactive 3D and accurately reflect a client’s unique home design.
In the past, custom 3D renders have been cost-prohibitive and time-consuming, making them an unviable option for home builders administering multiple unique client builds. Look for software that can automatically generate a bespoke, personalised and interactive 3D model from your existing architectural drawings for each client. Make sure it’s affordable, with no pricey CAD or rendering costs.
“Constructive 3D Selections is different from all other existing 3D visualisers,” explains Steph Cummins, Constructive Client Services Manager. “It reads your clients’ unique home designs, instead of providing them with a standard layout which might not resemble their plans at all.”
“Our cutting-edge software allows residential builders to provide an interactive 3D visualisation experience, tailored to each client’s unique home design. No more generic renderings — with 3D Selections, your clients can explore a true-to-life 3D model of their future home on any device, with no rendering wait-time,” adds James Salt, Constructive Software CEO.
“Variations and changes are minimised since clients can be confident they understand exactly how their selections will look in the final home.”
Full Stack Developer, Shane Monck, agrees: “It’s awesome for clients to be able to interactively visualise the selections they’re making for their new home via the seamless integration of a draftsperson’s drawings into Constructive 3D Selections. Builders already have these drawings and now they can get so much more out of them to the benefit of their clients.”
Auto-generate documentation
The ideal solution will slot seamlessly into your current selections process and save you time by automating manual processes.
3D Selections software should automatically record client choices as they select them in 3D, and auto-generate thorough, organised documentation — complete with images and your company branding — to eliminate errors.
“Online Selections Reports are an invaluable part of the software. It gets clients to prepare their own paperwork!” notes Client Services Manager, Steph Cummins.
“The ability to auto-generate an addenda or construction schedule based on a client’s 3D Selections at the click of a button is a game changer. No more hours and hours of spreadsheets or accidental manual errors,” agrees Constructive Client Success Manager, Emma Lord.
User-friendly interface
The 3D visualizer interface must be intuitive for clients to navigate and easy to make changes with a click or a tap; no training required.
This way, the hassle of colour and selection meeting appointments is drastically reduced. Clients can confidently make decisions at their own pace beforehand, leading to faster, smoother appointments.
Scalable
Compared to traditional lengthy rendering processes, you’ll need to make sure your Online 3D Selections software is easy to scale to larger volumes of home builds if needed.
Constructive can seamlessly scale to accommodate your client base as you grow, ensuring a consistent customer experience.
Trackable data
Your 3D Online Selections software should have the capacity to provide comprehensive data on client selections. Monitoring trends can help you understand what’s working and where you can improve.
With Constructive Intelligence Analytics, you can get a clear picture of what your clients are selecting. You’ll want to track your most and least popular client choices as well as identify sources of extra revenue from popular upgrades.
Support and Training
Look for a solution backed by a strong implementation service to get your team up and running smoothly, and a dedicated Support Portal for ongoing success.
3D Online Selections software allows builders to provide an interactive experience where clients can experiment with different options on a 3D model of their specific home design. This leads to happier clients who make more informed choices upfront.
The future of residential home building is visual and 3D-interactive. Don’t get left behind – revolutionise your selections process with Constructive 3D Online Selections.
