DesignO vs STAGGS – Product Configurator Toolkit

DesignO Product Designer for WooCommerce allows customers to design, customize, or personalize products on your WooCommerce website. DesignO is a comprehensive API-driven personalization commerce platform that offers multiple options for personalized product ordering to customers. The first option is a full design tool, similar to Canva, integrated into your website. The second option is a form-based editor that allows customers to personalize products using a form, and the third option is to upload artwork and proceed to checkout. Our WooCommerce product designer is powered by a centralized print order management software that caters to various businesses, including print service providers, packaging manufacturers, garment decorators, promotional gift suppliers, brand management firms, marketing organizations, graphic designers, digital asset management companies, franchise businesses, in-plant printers, and trade organizations. Awesome Features Rich Editor Fully mobile responsive design tool for product personalization such as print, packaging and merch with Canva like UX for desktop users and an app-like interface for mobile users. The design tool opens within your Magento store so that customers never leave your website. Allows customers to save their designs in customer account for ordering and re-ordering to get the high lifetime value of the customers. Allows customers to add personalized products right from within the design tool. From the shopping cart page, customers can proceed to checkout or go back to the design tool for further modifications in the artwork. File Upload and Checkout It is most common for a web-to-print shop to allow users to upload ready-to-print artwork and place orders. When placing an order online, buyers will be able to browse any product, select product options, check pricing, and finally upload artwork. Form Based Editor Form-based editor can be enabled from backend for the products where just need the form for personalization, this allow customers to just fill the form for personalization. It is the most easiest way to personalize and submit the order for end customers. Form-based editor includes options to edit text, text paragraph, image, colors, font and many more. Custom Options DesignO allows to admin users to add custom options in the products. Different types of options can be added like– text box, text area, checkbox, swatch box, dropdown, image dropdown, hidden filed, attribute and many more. Custom Pricing Per Unit Pricing: DesignO allows to admin users to configure pricing based on per unit, where admin can defined quantity based tier pricing, size based tier pricing or can combine both together. Admin can also set product base price, pricing for single option or make a combination of options and set pricing for it. Size based Pricing: DesignO allow admin to set pricing for products which works of per sq unit such as banner, wallpaper, backdrop and many more. Admin can set base pricing and custom options pricing based on sizes. Order and Job Management DesignO provide complete order management system to execute the order and ship to the customer. Each order gets Print-ready files which can directly go in printing. Comprehensive job monitoring and management from pre-press to ready-for-delivery. Define unique print workflow management for each type of printable product. Full visibility through live job dashboard and job calendar to get every order delivered on time. Notifications and e-mails for artwork approval and status updates to/from customers and your internal team. Role-based access to back-end users for full control and data security. Library Management DesignO provides complete library management to admin user to add and edit fonts, colors, clipart, artwork and layouts. DesignO provides admin user a easy to use design template builder with full control to define editable and non-editable elements in the artwork. Admin also can import ready artwork and templates from DesignRiver which is integrated in DesignO. Other Features Multi-store support. Multi-lingual and Multi-currency support. Benefits No more re-platforming, just integrate through API No more loosing on SEO and website traffic Reduce the number of software installations and licensing fee Centralize your pre-press work and reduce production cost Manage more work in the most profitable way possible Offers thousands of pre-made templates to choose from Who Use it Digital, Commercial, and Wide Format Printers Photo Printers & Book Publishers Garment Decorator, Promotional Product Suppliers, Custom Merch Vendors Marketing Agencies and Graphics Designers Real Estate Agencies Educational Institutes and Universities Franchisee Businesses Corporates and Trade Printers DesignO Upgrades If you are currently using an older version of DesignO, please avoid upgrading to newer versions without guidance from our technical support team, as direct upgrades may not always be successful due to API integrations. For assistance with upgrading DesignO, kindly reach out to our technical support team at [email protected]. Video

The STAGGS – Product Configurator Toolkit has everything you need to create stunning product configurators in WordPress and WooCommerce, right from your WordPress dashboard! The visual product configurators included 2D or 3D rendered images. The PRO version allows you to upload 3D GLB and GLTF models for the complete visual experience, including AR support. The product configurator plugin comes with stunning pre-built templates that you can use and customize to make your own! Apply your own brand logo, fonts, colors and icons to make the configurator truly yours. Getting started is really simple: create attributes, create a theme and build your configurable product. 👉 Interactive Guide: Get started using our guided tutorial 👉 Official Demo Links: Try out multiple Staggs configurator demos 👉 Learn More About Staggs (PRO): All the features of the Staggs product configurator PRODUCT CONFIGURATOR FOR WOOCOMMERCE If you have WooCommerce installed, you can create any configurator you like based on WooCommerce Simple products. Simply check the box ‘Enable Staggs Product Configurator’ and you can start building your configurator using the attributes and template. With WooCommerce installed, you can use the WooCommerce checkout system to let the customer directly pay at checkout. Read more about product configurators for WooCommerce PRODUCT CONFIGURATOR FOR WORDPRESS You can use the Staggs product configurator in WordPress too! WooCommerce is not required. In WordPress, you can build any configurator you like. We have created our own build-in product type for WordPress that you can use to create product configurators. Learn how you can build a product configurator in WordPress Note: there is no checkout system, so you can only create product configurators on a request quote basis using forms. You can also let customers directly send emails with the configured values. CUSTOM PRODUCT FIELDS FOR WOOCOMMERCE With STAGGS you don’t have to create full-fledged product configurators. You can also extend your simple products with custom product fields. Learn more about Product add-ons for WooCommerce by Staggs PLUGIN FEATURES The STAGGS Product Configurator Toolkit is packed with a lot of features: Stackable images: stack images on top of each other so you don’t have to create all possible variation product images yourselves Multiple product views: display your product from multiple angles Real-time price calculation: Charge additional costs for attribute options Collapsible attributes: Reduce configurator space by making your configurator attributes collapsible Configurator builder: easily create configurable products with attributes using our product configurator builder Customizer: make the product configurator truly blend in with the webshop. Customize the configurator template, colors, fonts, icons and apply custom CSS Shortcodes: Output your Staggs configurator anywhere on the product page you like Request quotes: link the configurator to a form (support for GravityForms, Contact Form 7, WP Forms, Ninja Forms and Fluent Forms) Contact via email: Directly open email client with selected configuration for inquiries Partial payments: Only charge a part of your total configuration costs at checkout Multi-language support: Translate your Staggs attributes into multiple languages Analytics: Track your most popular product configurations in the Staggs Analytics module 5+ ATTRIBUTE TYPES The configurator supports various types of attributes, including labels, user inputs, colors, fonts, links and even linked products. Image Input Color Font URL Linked product (pro) 10+ CUSTOM ATTRIBUTE FIELD TYPES The different attribute types can be paired with a display template to control how the options or inputs appear in the configurator form: Dropdown Option list Cards Image swatches Color swatches True/False Checkboxes Button group Text inputs Date input Number inputs Image upload (PRO) Related products (PRO) PRO FEATURES Our PRO features include: Conditional logic: Add conditional logic to your configurator attributes Inventory management: manage your inventory for individual attribute items Linked products: allow users to link WooCommerce products to your attribute options Multi-step configurator: Split up your configurator form into steps Advanced price calculations: Perform advanced price calculations based on formula’s and table prices Sharable links: Share active configuration as a link PDF downloads: Download active configuration as PDF Additional templates: horizontal popup and stepper template Image uploads: allow users to upload images and use preview in product image Related products add-on: allow users to add WooCommerce products to your configurable product Build 3D configurators: Use 3D product models in the product configurator (GLB and glTF) Change texture, color and variant of the 3D model Show/hide particular 3D model parts Update 3D camera zoom on option update Play 3D model animations Apply text or images AR view support Import/Export Tool: Easily import and export product attributes and edit attribute data in a sheet editor for convenient management PRE-BUILT CONFIGURATOR TEMPLATES The configurator plugin comes with four pre-built configurator templates for free Classic Template Full Template Floating Template Popup Template CUSTOM BLOCK FOR BLOCK THEMES The STAGGS configurator plugin comes with its own Gutenberg Block to add product configurator to your page. You will find the block in the Media category. Simply add the block to the page, select your configurable product and update the page. Now the configurator should be displayed. SHORTCODE SUPPORT FOR PAGE BUILDERS If you are using a page builder, you can use the following shortcodes to output the configurator on product pages: [staggs_configurator] to display complete configurator code; [staggs_configurator_popup_button] to display the popup trigger button (the popup is not visible by default). You can also choose to ‘design’ your own template, using each of the following shortcodes: [staggs_configurator_gallery] to display configurator image gallery; [staggs_configurator_form] to display the form containing all option groups and values; [staggs_configurator_totals] to display the add to cart or request invoice button; Learn how to display the product configurator in page builders Note: you can also use shortcodes on regular posts and pages, but you have to pass the product id as a parameter to the shortcode, like this: [staggs_configurator product_id="POST_ID"] You can find the POST_ID in your URL: post.php?post=[POST_ID] 3-STEP SETUP Getting started with the Staggs product configurator is simple and straight forward: Create your configuration attributes; Build your configuration using the created attributes on the product page; Change the configurator design by adding a template. RESPONSIVE DESIGN The Staggs product configurator templates are fully responsive and are embedded directly onto the page. You can build your configurator right from your WordPress dashboard and the configurator loads directly on the page. No need for embedded iframes. IMPROVED PRODUCT VISUALIZATION The Staggs product configurator can help you visualize changes in the product in multiple ways. You can add regular images that stack upon each other, display the image from multiple angles using multiple gallery images, use 3D rendered images of a product, or maximize the visualizations by creating a 3D configurator with AR support! STACKABLE IMAGES Save countless hours creating and uploading images for all of your product variations. Simply use our layered image preview that stacks all the images on top of each other. You even have control over where the image should go: always on top, at the bottom or maybe on layer four. You are in full control of how the product preview is going to look! SUPPORT FOR 3D CONFIGURATORS & AR MODE The Staggs product configurator comes with a lot of different visualization options. One of the PRO features is the support for 3D models and AR views. If you are looking for ways to take your product visualizations to the next level, you can create a 3D product configurator in WooCommerce with Staggs! WORKS WELL WITH OTHER PLUGINS We have added support for various other WordPress plugins, and we will keep expanding the list. Plugins we support at the moment of writing: Advanced Custom Fields PRO: Supercharge your Staggs admin panel with ACF PRO fields Contact Form 7, Gravity Forms, WP Forms, Ninja Forms and Fluent Forms: link configurator to a form to request quotes Yoast Duplicate Post: Duplicate attributes to speed up your configurator building process WPML and Polylang: Translate configurator attributes Deposit & Partial payments: Charge a partial amount of the total configuration costs at checkout TablePress: manage price tables for attributes (pro version) Find complete list on our website. BUILT-IN ANALYTICS MODULE The best way to get to know your customers is to find out what they like most. The Staggs product configurator comes with a built-in analytics module that collects all the configurable products from the WooCommerce orders, so you get more insights in your customers. Note: this feature is not available for WordPress-only installations. A RELIABLE GROWING PLATFORM We have scheduled monthly updates to ensure the plugin stays up-to-date with the latest developments in the WordPress environment. You can read more about the latest updates on our updates page. We are also open to feature requests; so if you have ideas in mind, feel free to reach out! Getting Started Building a product configurator with Staggs is relatively simple: Create Staggs configurator attributes Go to the ‘Staggs’ tab in the admin menu Open the “Attributes” page and create configurator attributes Build your configurable product with the attributes For WordPress, go to ‘Staggs’ > Products and create new product For WooCommerce, go to ‘Products’ and add new WooCommerce Simple product. Also tick the box “Enable Staggs product configurator” Create a configurator template and customize its settings to complete the look Go to Staggs > Templates and create new template Go to your configuratable product and select template in the configurator builder Publish the product and enjoy! Need help? Read the documentation for a detailed guide