The traditional design appointment is notoriously long, exhausting and stressful for home buyers. Homebuyers are NOT in the right frame of mind to purchase upgrades when they feel exhausted.

DesignGyde moves most of the upgrade decisions ONLINE, which dramatically reduces the decision burden during the in-person appointment. This includes decisions that require a lot of pondering, or input from family and friends. This may include color, material, cabinetry, appliance, hardware, smart-home, etc. decisions that are well suited for an online experience.

By moving most design decisions online, when homebuyers show up to their design appointment they can focus on the remaining "technical" decisions, things like electrical options.

To recap, moving options ONLINE has many advantages:

• Homebuyers can make the time-consuming color decisions online and review them with family and friends.
• Appointments can be completed in ~30 minutes, rather than 2+ hours.
• Importantly, homebuyers will be in the right frame of mind to purchase upgrade options.

Many builders rely on design consultants to use Excel or spreadsheets to create invoices on-the-fly with customers. This leads to errors, inconsistencies, stress, and delays appointments.

With DesignGyde design consultants can press a button to generate both invoices and, if applicable, contract amendments that include pricing breakdowns, deposits, mortgage deferrals, and so on.

DesignGyde maintains a history of all generated contracts, which is especially important when adjustments need to be made to existing invoices.

Invoices and contracts can be signed manually or, to further streamline the process, using digital signatures using DocuSign.

Pricing design options is inherently complicated, given there are so many variables to consider:

• Do you price by sq ft, linear feet, quantity, or a combination of these?
• How do you price a-la-carte versus packaged options?
• Do you price by space, unit, floor plan type, layout, etc.?
• How do financial reports account for pricing changes over time?

If you are a design consultant you may resort to using your own Excel sheets and crunching numbers "on the fly" during appointments. The problem is this leads to pricing mistakes, pricing inconsistencies between other consultants, and stressful appointments.

With DesignGyde, you can still use Excel if you want to! Simply import your Excel file into DesignGyde whenever you have pricing updates. Then let DesignGyde automate the number crunching, invoice generation, and record keeping during your appointments.

DesignGyde gives your team the ability to instantly download Excel files that have important order and financial information.

For example, your finance team can see which options are popular and which are not selling, and make price adjustments accordingly to increase average spend per order. The resulting impact of adjusting prices can have a major impact on overall revenues.