Mein Baustoffversand (Jukom GmbH)

Roof Configurator

meinbaustoffversand.de is the online shop of Jukom GmbH in Hamburg, specialising in roof plates, aluminium profiles and patio roofing. A patio roof is not a product you drop into a basket — it is an arithmetic problem: roof dimensions, pitch and rafter spacing determine how many plates, profiles and seals are needed, and at what length. That is where customers give up in an ordinary shop, and exactly what the configurator takes off their hands.

kaliber5 built a configurator for Mein Baustoffversand that takes customers from a rough idea to an order-ready bill of materials in five steps: substructure, properties, roof, accessories, bill of materials. Even users with little technical affinity should arrive — on desktop and tablet — at a result that holds up structurally and in price.

While the basic data is still being entered — roof width and depth, pitch, rafter length, rafter width and number of rafters — the configurator turns the configuration into a 3D preview that updates in real time. Customers see their roof before making a single purchase decision. Based on their input, a suitable roof plate model is then recommended; in the following steps they can change model and accessories before the fully automatically calculated bill of materials appears, with save and print options.

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Since the user starts with a valid configuration at the beginning, he immediately sees the price consequences of his changes to the configuration. In addition, any configuration errors are not even possible with the extremely easy operation. The configurator intercepts invalid configurations and offers the user suggested solutions so that the customer always reaches his goal quickly, comfortably and without obstacles. The configurator is accompanied by an administration backend in which all products as well as their data and relationships can be updated by uploading an Excel table.