Your range spans seating, tables and storage, and each needs different things written down. A spreadsheet forces one set of columns on all of them, so the chair rows carry empty top-thickness cells and the cabinet rows carry empty seat heights. ManyRows files a product into a category, and the category decides which attributes it carries.
Seating, Tables and Storage, each with their own children, and each declaring what a product filed under it carries. A child inherits from its parent, so a task chair is seating without anyone restating it.
Carries a seat height, a backrest type and a tilt mechanism.
Carries a top thickness, an edge profile and a base type.
Carries a drawer count and whether it locks.
The tree is yours. These three are what a contract furniture range looks like; if you make beds and wardrobes, the tree says beds and wardrobes, and the attributes follow.
Furniture is built from parts that repeat. The bill of materials goes two levels deep so the shared pieces stay shared, and the cost follows the same path.
A task chair consumes a frame, a seat pad, a backrest and a five-star base. The frame consumes steel tube, sheet and a screw pack. Two levels, because that is how furniture is actually made, and the sub-assemblies are shared: the same five-star base sits under three different chairs, and the same T-leg understructure carries a desk and a meeting table.
Every material carries a unit cost against the supplier that quotes it. A product's cost rolls up through its sub-assemblies rather than being retyped, so changing the price of steel tube moves every chair that uses it.
Suppliers carry their own lead times, from two weeks on foam to six and a half on imported hardware, so the bill of materials knows which line is the long pole.
BIFMA, EN 1335, EN 527, EN 14073, flammability, FSC chain of custody, GREENGUARD. Each one is a record attached to the product it covers, with an issuer, a scope and a validity date that drives a status you can filter the whole library by.
The starter ships the awkward case on purpose: a run-out stool whose BIFMA certificate lapsed in 2024, sitting in the expired band where a tender response would have found it too late.
The Furniture starter opens on a contract range with its bills of materials built, its products filed into categories and its certificates dated, so you can judge the product against real furniture rather than an empty screen.
Plus nine sub-assemblies shared across the range, six finishes, a cost rollup on every product, and a check vocabulary shaped for furniture: durability cycle, stability, flammability, first article.
If you need a configurator that prices every option combination for a customer, that is a CPQ tool and we are not one. If you want cut lists, nesting or machine files coming out the other end, that is CAD and CAM; we hold the bill of materials, not the toolpaths. And if you are buying purchasing, stock and works orders, that is an ERP. We are the place the product itself is defined, and we are honest about where that stops.
Spin up a project, pick Furniture Maker, and you are looking at a categorised range with costed bills of materials in about a minute.
