Infitics turns door types, dimensions, frames, hardware, finishes, compatibility, pricing, and approvals into one guided path from product selection to a usable order.
A useful configurator must understand which combinations are possible, how they are priced, what requires approval, and what downstream teams need after a buyer clicks continue.
Catalogs, spreadsheets, ERP records, sales knowledge, and supplier constraints disagree or change on different schedules.
A basic form collects choices but cannot explain dependencies, prevent conflicts, or guide a buyer toward a complete specification.
Customer tiers, volume, fabrication, hardware, freight, margin, and exceptions make the displayed price only part of the decision.
When the configuration cannot become structured order data, sales and operations have to interpret the work again.
Each layer should make one part of the buying decision more dependable and leave the resulting data useful to the rest of the business.
Represent door, frame, hardware, rating, finish, preparation, and dimensional relationships as maintainable domain rules.
Reveal the next useful choice, explain unavailable options, retain progress, and support sales-assisted or self-service use.
Design around the real context, whether a customer is researching, a dealer is quoting, or a salesperson is working in the field.
Apply customer, product, quantity, fabrication, freight, and margin logic while routing exceptions to the right owner.
Generate a clear quote from structured selections, retain revisions, and preserve the assumptions behind the result.
Pass approved data into payment, accounting, order, inventory, fabrication, or fulfillment workflows without rekeying it.
A configurator owns the product decision and quote path. It should integrate with operational systems without pretending to be an entire ERP on one screen.
The evidence is the workflow delivered, the engineering decisions behind it, and what the client is willing to say publicly.
A 12-step commercial door builder connects product selection, frame and hardware decisions, quote generation, payment, and order operations.
“The door builder and quote system completely automated our process from lead generation to payment processing.”
Wayne Foreman, CEO
A Rails product supports partition configuration, quoting, customer follow-up, and the internal workflow around the sale.
“Their role has been critical to our workflow across a variety of complex projects.”
Michael McDougald, CEO · 5+ year relationship
A React configurator and Rails application share a connected product model across door rules, quotes, inventory, fabrication details, and ordering.
See the engineering decisionsThe first engagement should reduce uncertainty around the product model and workflow before committing to a broad platform scope.
Trace users, product families, required inputs, exceptions, approvals, quote output, and the downstream handoff.
Identify the source of truth, rule relationships, update process, and the person accountable for exceptions.
Test the interaction around the densest choices before polishing screens or expanding the catalog.
Deliver the smallest end-to-end slice that proves configuration, pricing, quote output, and operational integration together.
Frameworks matter when they make the rules easier to evolve, the interface easier to use, and production behavior easier to own.
Rails can be a strong fit for workflow-heavy products where pricing, authorization, integrations, and administration belong in one understandable application.
Component-based interfaces help when configuration state, conditional choices, previews, and validation require rich client interaction.
PostgreSQL or the existing source system should preserve product relationships, quote history, and the integrity required by downstream work.
Accounting, payment, CRM, shipping, inventory, and ERP integrations are designed around available APIs and an agreed system of record.
Useful answers depend on the catalog, rules, users, and systems already involved.
It is a guided product-selection system that applies door, frame, hardware, dimensional, compatibility, pricing, and approval rules while producing structured configuration and quote data. The best version connects that data to the order workflow instead of ending at a visual preview.
Custom work is justified when product rules, pricing, sales roles, integrations, or customer experience create an important advantage that available products cannot express responsibly. We still compare buying, extending, and building before recommending a custom system.
Often, yes. The design depends on the available API, data ownership, authentication, failure behavior, and whether updates must move one way or both ways. We verify those boundaries before promising a specific integration.
There is no responsible universal timeline. A focused workflow with known product data is different from a multi-brand platform with visual rendering, customer-specific pricing, ERP integration, and migration work. We estimate after mapping the rules, interfaces, and first bounded release.
The configurator owns product selection, guided selling, pricing, and quote output. ERP or broader door operational software owns purchasing, inventory, production, accounting, fulfillment, and other internal processes. The systems can be connected without combining every responsibility.
Bring representative product families, the current quote path, pricing and compatibility sources, exception examples, user roles, desired output, and the systems that need the result. Imperfect spreadsheets and screenshots are useful when they show how work happens today.
Show us the catalog, product rules, quote path, exceptions, and downstream handoff. We will help you define the smallest useful system boundary.