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Curved cabinet, countertops for kitchen island
It would be great to have a feature or a way to make cabinets curved or rounded in 3D designs.
Select/Select All Button to Duplicate Boards
Add a select/select all button to duplicate or move multiple design boards at once instead of individually duplicating each board one by one.
3D Rendering
It would be amazing if we could get higher quality/more realistic 3D renderings that we can share with our clients! Preferably something that doesn’t depend on AI. As of now the rendering and AI features aren’t quite hitting the mark when clients want to see the space and spaces more in depth. When I utilize the render feature, flooring comes out even more grainy than it does in the 3D floor plan.
let me update PO status from within PO
I’m within a PO finalizing the details and should be able to update its status right there vs. having to navigate back to the list of all POs to do so. Thanks!
Packages - Remove Design Files branding!
I like sending the links to packages but I prefer to use my own branding for the link!
Track actual shipping costs in each client order
Hi DesignFiles Team! We're looking for a way to track actual shipping costs against estimated shipping costs for each product order. We estimate shipping when preparing client quotes, but once the order is placed, the vendor's actual shipping charges are often different. Is there a way to enter the actual shipping expense separately from the shipping amount billed to the client, so our project profitability and financial reports accurately reflect our true costs and margins? Ideally, we'd like to track both amounts without changing the original client invoice. Thank you!
questionnaire templates
I have updated fields in my templates for the questionnaires I’ve sent and they keep getting reset with the generic questionnaire. How can I permanently update the fields in my questionnaire like design styles so that I don’t continuously need to revise the fields?
Archive multiple projects at one time
I would like to be able to “Select all” projects and then simply unselect current projects and archive all of the rest. I have been using design files for many years and have a file for all past projects cluttering up my home page. I would like to be able to only see current projects and organize them according to what phase of the project they are in but it is taking me too much time to select projects one by one and click into them to archive individual projects.
Duplicate Spec sheets?
I love that we can now set up a project template and duplicate for each new project. Such a time saver!!!!!! I would love if the spec pages could also be duplicated. I could set one up for each catagory I typically use (flooring, lighting, cabinets, etc) and not have to start from scratch setting up each spec sheet separately for each new job. thanks so much- liz
Can my team members see my notes on POs?
I was just on the phone with my lead designer and I was asking her to look at a clients PO and to scroll down to the notes section to see my note on the order. She said she could not view the note I wrote, and i’m just wondering if my team members cannot see the notes on the PO, is it possible to make that visible to them? it would be very helpful for our team
Make it easier to log into my account
It is extremely annoying that I now have to log in every time, even if i am already in my account and go to another window to view something else in the clients file. It never did this before.
New feature
I would like to use my floor plans for electrical planning (switches, sockets and lighting). Any chance all the standard symbols be added to the suite please.
Purchase order side lacks
I agree we need to be able to see what is accruing time…. The sync doing work and a lot of time adds double entries TO QUICKBOOKS NOT an option for many. It sure would be nice to be able to have purchase order reports the same way that we have money coming in reports we need to see money going out reports and for tax purposes this would be so much easier. All other platforms are adding this. It would also be NICE. I’ve asked probably 100 times that purchase orders can’t be “duplicated” all it would take is something that FLAGS US LIKE with a red mark or something telling us that this was already created on an invoice. Thanks
Future invoice syncing still needs one issue resolved:
the invoice Tax field was omitted from QuickBooks totals. The purchase-tax mapping does not fix that. Retailer-tax reimbursements need a named invoice line or a confirmed DesignFiles sync solution before I can verify complete invoice syncing.
allow deposit payments on quotes
PLEASE let us collect payments on quotes. Having to send a quote for approval and THEN an invoice just makes the client experience more of a hassle, but I’d rather not skip the quote entirely (even though often it also seems redundant if someone has “approved” items within a design board…) I just sat in on the first bit of the workflow session thinking maybe it would clarify how to streamline this but NO, it assumes we always want to do all of these steps. PLEASE improve the client experience in this way — it can’t be so hard to knock off! (Houzz offers this btw) BTW before I posted this I searched and see that this was first requested by someone else THREE YEARS AGO.
Add/Organize Products into Categories on the Products Page
If we do not add a product to a category on the detail page, independently, we should have the ability to bulk add items to categories on the Product tab. Pretty please? It’s a pain to have to edit each one independently and very time consuming!
Spec Sheet Template
I would love it if there were a way to create a template for spec sheets so that I am not re-creating the wheel every single time for every job. I work with a lot of different builders and they all want to see my spec sheets with different information on them so it would be super helpful and a huge time saver if I could create a different template for each builder!!