Blind and curtain fitters, with gumption.
Blinds quoting software that prices the bay window before you leave
Nobody buys a made-to-measure blind until someone has measured the window, and that's where the sums begin: width, drop, fabric, lining and which side the chain goes. We build blind and curtain fitters the booking, pricing and ordering behind every window, and a website with a price calculator that brings in the next measuring visit.
Sound familiar?
Every window is a fresh sum.
A roller blind in the bathroom is quick to price. A bay with three Roman blinds in a patterned fabric, blackout lining and a chain on the left is not. You work it out from supplier price grids on the customer's kitchen table, add your fitting, and they wait for a figure while you hunt for the right page.
Measured right, ordered wrong.
You measured carefully, recess or exact, width at three heights, and wrote it on a pad. By the time it's typed into a supplier's order form, one drop has swapped with another and a left-hand control has become a right. A blind that's two centimetres short can't be stretched, and the remake comes out of your margin.
Fitting days that won't line up.
Blinds go to two suppliers, curtains to the workroom, and each comes back on its own date. The customer wants everything fitted in one visit, ideally before the in-laws arrive. Keeping track of what has landed, what's on back order and which house is waiting on one last pole takes a whiteboard, two notebooks and a lot of phone calls.
Made to measure. Quoted before the tea goes cold.
Blinds business software, from tape measure to fitting.
Every system is built around how your blinds business already works. Here are some of the things we'd build for blind and curtain fitters. Online shops. Product configurators. How our bespoke systems work.
Measuring visits booked online.
Customers choose a measuring slot by postcode, say which rooms and roughly how many windows, and whether it's blinds, curtains or both. They get a text confirming the day and a reminder the evening before. Your day screen shows each visit in route order, with notes about parking, the dog or the window nobody can reach.
A price calculator on your website.
Shoppers pick a blind type and fabric, enter the width and drop, then add lining, a chain side or motorisation. The price changes with each choice, worked out from your own grids, so they see a guide figure before booking a visit, or order outright if you sell that way. This is our product configurator, set up for windows.
Quotes built in the room.
On a tablet or phone, add each window as you measure it: room, width, drop, recess or exact, control side and fabric. Prices come from your supplier grids and making-up rates, plus fitting. The customer sees a tidy quote before you leave, every window listed, and gets an email copy with a link to accept and pay a deposit.
Orders to the workroom and suppliers.
When a quote is accepted, every window becomes an order line in the format each supplier or your workroom needs, using the measurements taken in the room. Nobody retypes a drop. Each line is tracked from ordered to delivered, and a job only turns ready to fit when every piece for that house has arrived.
Fitting days and child safety records.
Ready jobs are grouped into fitting days by area, and customers are texted to pick a date. The fitter's sheet lists every window with its bracket type and control side. For corded blinds it records which child safety device was fitted and that the customer was shown how it works, ticked on the phone before you go.
Where AI helps blind and curtain fitters.
Measuring a bay is a two-handed job, and pricing it is where the evening disappears. AI can draft the sums and pick up the calls, and every figure is checked by you before a customer sees it. How we use AI.
- A draft quote from your measurementsRead out each window as you measure, or photograph your notepad, and a draft quote arrives, priced on your own grids and making-up rates. You check every line before it's sent, because a misheard drop costs more than a minute.
- Calls from halfway up a bay windowPeople ringing to book a measure get an answer while you're drilling into a lintel. Their postcode, the rooms and whether it's blinds or curtains go on your list, with a measuring slot offered from your own diary.
Found when people search made to measure blinds.
People start looking when they move house, redo a room or finally give up on the blind that sticks halfway. They search "made to measure blinds near me", "blind fitters near me" or "motorised blinds", and many weigh a local fitter against the big online sellers that show a price straight away. A website with your own price calculator closes that gap, and a Google Business Profile with photos of rooms you've fitted does the rest.
Curtains and blinds sell on how they look in a room, so the photos matter more than in most trades. We're photographers, so a Roman blind in a sunny kitchen or lined curtains in a bay get shot properly. We'll also write plain pages on what people ask before booking: blackout or dim-out, recess or exact fit, and whether motorisation is worth it. A listing that names the villages you cover around Shipley helps with the local searches.
An illustration, not a real client
Example: a measure and fit business with a sewing room.
We've invented this one, so any resemblance to a real fitter is luck. Imagine a couple: one measures and fits, the other runs a small curtain workroom in the back bedroom, and blinds come from two trade suppliers. We'd put measuring visits online by postcode, build a website calculator from their own price grids and let the fitter quote room by room on a tablet. Accepted quotes would turn into supplier orders and workroom sheets, and fitting days would only be booked once everything had arrived.
Questions blind and curtain fitters ask.
How much does blinds quoting software cost to build?
That turns on how much it has to work out. A fitter selling rollers and verticals from one supplier needs a simpler build than a business with a curtain workroom, three suppliers and motorised tracks. We'll go through your price grids, how you measure and how you order, then quote you one fixed figure before we build anything. Many fitters would begin with the in-room quote and add ordering later.
Can I quote on a tablet in the customer's house?
Yes. A tablet is handy for turning the quote round on a kitchen table, and a phone works too. Add windows as you measure, take a photo of an awkward recess, and the quote builds as you go. If the house has no signal, the measurements stay on the device until you're back online, then the prices fill in.
Can the calculator use my supplier price grids?
Yes. Blind suppliers often price on a grid of width bands against drop bands, and curtains come down to fabric used, making up and lining. We load your own grids and rates, add your margin and fitting, and each measurement rounds up to the right band. When a supplier sends a new price list, you update it once and every new quote uses it.
Can the website price motorised blinds?
Yes. Motorisation is an option like any other, priced per blind or per motor from your supplier, with extras such as a remote or a hub if you sell them. Customers see the difference on the website calculator before they book, and the quote lists it line by line, so nobody's surprised that the clever blind costs more than the plain one.
What about child safety on corded blinds?
Internal blinds with cords or chains are covered by a British Standard on child safety, which expects the safety devices to be fitted when the blinds go up. Your suppliers and trade association are the place for the detail. What we build is the record: which device went on which window, and a note that the customer was shown how it works.
Should I just buy ready-made blinds software?
Tools like BlindMatrix, Quoterite and Curtain Quote suit plenty of blind and curtain businesses. If one already suits your business, carry on with it. A build of your own makes sense when your pricing, workroom and website calculator need to share one set of numbers, or when all you need is a calculator added to the site you already have.
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