Every print shop has a configurator. None of them gives you a cut file.
SignForge lets your customer specify a sign (letters, boxes, fascias, totems), see the price as they build it, and receive a quotation under your name. Behind it, the same job becomes plotter-ready output for your workshop.
A built-up letter is priced from a formula your workshop already knows by heart.
Material, height, depth, face and return, illumination, fixing. Your estimator holds the whole calculation in a spreadsheet and a head full of experience, and still every enquiry costs a phone call, a drawing and two days. Meanwhile the customer who wanted a price on Sunday evening has asked three other shops.
Letters and logo shapes, geometry, dimensions, material, depth, face and return construction, illumination type and fixing method, the parameters your quotation already turns on.
Your material costs, your labour rates, your surcharges, your minimums. Not a marketplace price and not a guess. It is the figure your estimator would have reached, produced while the customer is still deciding.
Generated, numbered and sent as a branded document, with the full specification attached so nothing is re-keyed and nothing is misread.
The configured job carries through to production output, so the file that leaves the configurator is the file the machine reads. This is the step the online print platforms have never needed and never built.
Localised interface and quotation documents. Further languages on request.
Online printers solved artwork upload. They never had to solve fabrication.
Pixartprinting, Vistaprint, Solopress and the rest let a customer upload a file and buy a printed panel. That works because a printed panel is a flat product with a fixed price per square metre. A dimensional sign is neither.
Flat product, fixed price
Upload artwork, choose a size from a list, pay. No geometry, no construction method, no illumination, no fixing, and no output your workshop can cut from.
Fabricated product, calculated price
Construction is the product. The configurator models how the sign is actually built, prices it from how you actually make it, and produces the file your plotter actually reads.
Built once at head office. Rolled out to every centre.
Franchise networks and multi-branch sign makers face the same problem multiplied: every location quotes the same kinds of job by hand, and none of them can justify buying software alone. One deployment, centrally controlled, gives each centre instant quoting on its own price tier and its own territory, without each of them buying anything.
Regional cost differences, franchise margins and local promotions handled per location from one system.
Update a material cost or add a product once; every centre in the network follows immediately.
A configured, priced job reaches the nearest centre ready to produce, instead of an enquiry form that starts the conversation from zero.
Configured to your range, deployed on your domain, scoped before it is promised.
Delivery time depends on how wide your product range is and how many rules sit behind your pricing. Rather than quote a date I would have to walk back, I scope it against what you actually fabricate, and then the date and the figure are fixed.
A short call
Twenty minutes. What you fabricate, how you estimate it, and which of your products are worth putting in front of a customer to configure.
A scoped plan and a fixed figure
In writing after the call: scope, timeline against your specific range, and cost.
Your rules go in
Materials, constructions, illumination options, labour rates and margins, checked against quotations you have already issued, so the prices it produces are prices you would have quoted.
Live on your domain, in your brand
Hosted and maintained by me if you have no infrastructure, or deployed into yours if you do.
The same engine is built out for PVC windows and doors: 3D configuration, live pricing and automated quoting. See the windows product if you also fabricate joinery, or if a company in your group does.
One developer, one specialism, direct contact.
No account manager, no ticket queue, no discovery phase billed by the week. You talk to the person writing the code, which is why a change request takes days rather than a release cycle.
I build configurators and quoting systems for sign and window manufacturers. The software is mine, written from the ground up. I work with a limited number of sign makers across Italy, Spain, France and the United Kingdom, because a fabrication rule set built properly takes time that cannot be split ten ways. See how I work.
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