Free Home Designer For Your Website

Robyn Rayner

RenoWorks has just launched a free Home Designer for contractor sites called RevisionPro.

To sign up, you need to create an account and then you can choose the launch button for your site by copying and pasting the code and emailing it to your webmaster. Check it out and let me know what you think.

www.revsionpro.com

Ed the Roofer

Thanks Robyn. As soon as my secretary gets familiar with using the RenoWorks, i definitely want to add the feature where a customer can insert a photo of their own home to be able to play with the color changes on their roof through my soon to be released website.

What information does the WbMaster need to know for it getting instaled on the site?

Do the customers play with the module on my own website, or do they get tranferred to the RenoWorks site when they click on the module?

The one roof that my secretary tried to do, did not turn out very well. The roof color just looked like a brown color with no texture and definition.

I think I am going to have her and someone from your company do an on phone tutorial with her.

I am really excited about adding this feature to the website, since I think it will give the browsing clients a major reason to want to stick around on it and hopefully check out the other contents as well.

Ed

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Ed the Roofer

Actually, I think I will upload a few different current photos of recent estimates for you to do an online tutorial again, like you did with Patricks siding job.

That way, everyone can share in the learning tutorial and decrease their own learning curve.

You guys have been great to work with so far. Keep it up.

This forum resource was a great idea.

Ed

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Robyn Rayner

Thanks Ed.

Yes you should definitely have her phone in for a tutorial. I suspect there might be a problem with the scale but it would be best if we can see the project.

For now the web tool is for homeowners to play with stock home images and try to visualize how it would be on their own home. They will be able to upload a photo of their home for you (or someone within your organization) to visit them and show them their own home remodeled in RenoWorks.

The reason we have chose for homeowners not to upload and visualize their own home on your website is that then there is no reason for them to necessarily contact you. We want it to be more of a lead generation tool.

All your webmaster needs to know is where you will put the tool, it will only take them minutes to paste in the code to the appropriate page.

We are hosting the web applications on www.revisionpro.com but each user will have their unique address to access the home designer. i.e. www.revisionpro.com/edtheroofer

Ed the Roofer

So, when they click on the link, and then go to your hosted service, do they have the option to check out other links from your site?

I would prefer that they NOT leave my website at all.

I understand the rational behind only supplying generic templated homes for the Home Owners to use online. Good Point.

Ed

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Robyn Rayner

There will be no links to anything else on our site so it won't be obvious that they have left your site. We have left it very white and neutral so that it blends with most sites.

The next step up is to add your own logo or the top banner of your site, then it really seems as if they have never left the site.

Ed the Roofer

Gotcha!!!

That sounds like a very clean and productive way to set that up.

Ed

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Robyn Rayner

We're really excited about it...I know I'm biased but i think it would benefit a lot of sites to add some traction.

MattCoops

Some questions:

On the paint colors, do you specify which name and code# it is? Which manufacture do you use?

Do you provide this feature strictly for exterior?

Do you do interiors? (Namely, bath remodels with tile, vanities and paint colors)

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Ed the Roofer

Try one of these roofs please.

Ed

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Robyn Rayner

We currently are using generic building products and are not specifying manufacturers products. We are looking to add that probably in a couple months. At that time you would be able to see all of the product details associated with the product (including name and #). We are currently partnering with manufacturers to make their products available online.

Right now we have a selection of exterior homes but I'm glad to hear there is interest for interiors as well. We can definitely fit that in to the product road map. For the most part it would be paint and flooring unless we had enough interest to develop this further.

Good questions!

Ed the Roofer

First, I tried out the home online version to see how it was and I thought it worked incredibly well.

So much simpler since it is sort of generic, but not really. You did use actual manufacturers products, just without their names.

I found it easy...So What.

Now the real test.

I had my wife try it on my site getting developed.

1 minute and she already had 3-4 different siding and roof color schemes manipulated.

Really a great job for how easy you made it for them to use.

I definitely see how this can improve our initial Home Owner decision maker on feeling we can help them out more than others.

I might even give a phone call to the guy on your video testimonial, to discuss how they have implemented the software, since they have used it for over 5 years already.

Maybe you could contact the Ferguson brothers and see if they wanted to get involved in this discussion thread.

Thanks a lot.

Ed

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Robyn Rayner

We have made the online version very easy and fun to use so I'm glad you like it.

I'm sure Ferguson Roofing would be happy to talk to you (since you're not in their direct area). They use the software in all of their advertising and have drawn up a lot of business that way. I will let him know that he could add some value to this forum.

On another note, I will use the first house you posted and run through a step by step.

Is that a potential job you are working on?

Robyn

Ed the Roofer

Yes and thank you Robyn.

Both jobs are recent estimate calls that I have measured.

I would absolutely LOVE to see that home done in a Certinteed Carriage House Shangle, for the Upsell potential and also in a 30-50 year regular architectural style shingle.

I am going to "Force" my secretary Lisa, to join this forum, at least for a brief time, so that she can correspond directly with you and others using this software.

So far, on the one simple one story ranch home, she has not figured out how to move the grid lines to properly apply "Perspective", which I read in your site Support pages, which seems like it can be perplexing, so go easy on her.

Ed

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Robyn Rayner

Perspective can be confusing but we have just improved it to make it easier. We have some more testing to do and then a patch will be made available for free to people who have purchased yearly maintenance.

Ed the Roofer

My secretary signed up on this forum today, with the User Name, of "Confused", but she is gone for the day now.

She should have time to go through the learning process and tutorial for this magnificent home tomorrow with you.

e-mail me your direct phone # in case she needs to call, please.

eddiesdad@sbcglobal.net

Ed

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Robyn Rayner

Lol.

I'm heading out for an all day seminar but if Confused would like to ask any questions, I will respond this weekend.

Ed the Roofer

I think you should have your associates put together a list of all of the Home Design generic products you have in the data base and get opinions from each trades perspective, on what to actually call the products.

Case in point. Some of the shingles classified as 3-tab shingles are actually architectural style shingles.

This could potentialy cause great confusion with a consumer online, without the benefit of discussing what those options really consist of, for clarity sake.

Ed

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Robyn Rayner

That's a good idea, I have forwarded on your suggestion to the Product Manager. I believe expanding our generic products is in the work schedule so evaluating it again at the same time would make sense.

DigiContractor

Hey what capabilities does it have to dimension?