Software query

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Software query

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Hi. I have been trying to find information on setting up a new framing business online. I have many years experience as a 'high street' picture framer but sold my gallery and framing business a few years back. I would now like to start up again but as an online business only. 

I am currently looking at both Dropshipping and Print on Demand business models but neither are, so far, proving ideal. 

My ambition would be to have an online service along the lines of the e-frame.co.uk and many other 'fast-frame' businesses but, and this is crucial, offer as high a level of customer service as I did when I had a 'physical' high street shop. I don't want to be international or even national. I just want to offer a quality framing service but one where the customer has the option of engaging online rather than in person.

My question is; are there software packages out there that would integrate with my own website to provide a potential customer with a choice of mouldings  mount board, level of finish, customisation options etc and a 'real time' view of their frame as it is constructed and a finished cost?

Or, do I have to go down the route of hiring a coder to write the software for me? this would be very expensive I suspect.

Any help or advice you could give would be very much appreciated.
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This link is from Framers Only on facebook.
https://merchants.frameshops.com/prices ... BbyvpblFWo
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You could look at Simulart.
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Or try Zoom consultations?
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Thanks for the shout out Justin.

Artbox, I am the owner of a small frame shop in NYC and the owner of the frameshops.com software platform. We just launch it on Christmas Eve 2020 :-)

I am working on something similar though may not be the exact same you are lookin for. Would you like to tell me how you would imagine this software you have in mind to work? Since the pandemic and the eventual closing of my NYC shop (whish is still closed since March 2020), I have been trying to think up ways and ideas to do the kind of things you are looking to online.

This is my first post here in this forum.
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Hey Mo, Welcome to the Framers Forum!
I didn't realise that you we're Frame Shops.com.
You'll find this forum a little more relaxed than FO :lol:
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I was told to sign up here. :-)

Haha! I like relaxed.
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Welcome Mo
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Thank you. You are very kind.
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