The Smart-Builder Range: 'creating world leading glass design software'

Smart-Builder is the world’s leading software for designing frameless glass structures. There are four modules which can be used as standalone design tools or integrated into the Smart-Toolbox sales system.

• Smart-Shower for configuring glass showers including steam enclosures or bath partitions.
• Smart-Shopfront for designing glass shopfronts or internal partition walls.
• Smart-Balustrade for building structural glass balustrades or pool fences.
• Smart-Railing for calculating post based railings with cable, picket or glass infills.
• Smart-Splashback for designing kitchen or bathroom splashbacks.

Our advanced Smart-Toolbox sales system manages customers and quotes for glass (processed or stock), hardware, adhoc jobs and structures from any of the integrated design modules listed above. Smart-Toolbox contains built in support for operational aspects such as work orders, purchase orders and easy drag and drop scheduling of measures and installations, plus debtor financials such as invoicing, receipting and statements.

Use our service on the run!

Smart-Hosting is an add-on service which allows customers to access the Smart-Builder software over the internet. This means that the software can be used from any computer with an internet connection, be that at home, at work, or on a laptop via wireless.

Besides the obvious benefit of allowing staff to work from home or while travelling, Smart-Hosting enables businesses to take laptop computers on site and produce a quote on the spot for the end customer. When trying to make an immediate sale it is hard to beat giving a price on the spot and showing your customer the proposed shower, shopfront, railing or balustrade in full colour 3D.

Smart-Hosting offers other benefits. The software and database are hosted on our dedicated servers in a secure climate controlled data centre with full battery and generator power backup and diversified high speed internet connections. We manage upgrades to latest versions of our software and database backups are scheduled to occur multiple times a day. Furthermore backups are electronically transferred offsite to a secure location to ensure peace of mind.

Smart-Hosting is available for all our software at a nominal price per database and user. A broadband connection is recommended. Please contact us for further information.

Custom development

Smart-Builder have a dedicated in-house development team which has produced all of our software. We emphasise quality over quantity, preferring to have a smaller number of intelligent and highly skilled developers rather than a large team of inexperienced graduates or outsourcing off-shore. This approach has paid off, producing revolutionary and award winning software products which are easy to use and have world leading functionality.

By having a development team which more often than not gets it right first time we also remain competitive on costs. Our professional grade development tools and environment are highly refined to maximise our productivity without limiting our creativity. Cost effectiveness is further enhanced by our development team being based in New Zealand which has a highly educated workforce, modern infrastructure and a great lifestyle but still manages to have a comparatively low cost of living.

We are open to enquiries from prospective partners interested in developing new software or modules, for the glass industry or otherwise. We specialise in complex problems which cannot easily be solved, particularly where the solution needs a significant degree of precision. Glass structures fit this brief well but our expert system technology and user friendly graphical approach is very well suited to many other areas.

If you would like to find out more or discuss a possible project then please contact us.