ARQR360 vs Hexa: What a Furniture Store Actually Gets from Each

Picture a furniture store owner in Brisbane. She sells sofas, armchairs, and coffee tables from one showroom and a website. Her customers keep asking the same question. Will this sofa fit my living room. She knows the answer is AR. Let the customer point their phone at their own room and see the piece in place. Then she starts comparing tools and lands on two names. Hexa, the 3D platform that powers 3D imaging for Amazon sellers. And ARQR360. Both promise 3D and AR. They are built for very different buyers. Here is the honest version.

What Hexa is

Hexa is a 3D commerce platform. Its pitch is simple. Send product images, even a single image per product, and its mix of AI and a large managed team of 3D artists turns them into high quality 3D models. Those models then feed everything else. A 3D viewer on your product pages. 360 spins. AR views. Even rendered marketing images made from the same 3D files. Amazon partnered with Hexa to bring 3D imaging to its sellers, which tells you the scale it is built for.

The platform comes with a CMS where your team manages the assets, checks quality, and watches analytics. You display the 3D products on your site with a snippet of code. It plugs into Shopify, WooCommerce, BigCommerce, and Magento. That stack is made for e-commerce teams that want to run 3D across a large catalogue themselves.

What ARQR360 is

ARQR360 is a done-for-you AR catalogue for independent furniture retailers. You send photos of your bestselling pieces and their real listed dimensions. We build true-to-size AR (Augmented Reality) views from them and hand you links and QR codes that open the view in your customer's phone browser. No app. No platform to learn. No 3D team on your side. About seven days from photos to a live catalogue.

The audience is different. ARQR360 is built for stores that sell finished pieces off the floor, not e-commerce teams running a 3D asset pipeline.

Price: quote-based platform vs one public flat rate

Hexa does not publish pricing. Software directories list its price as unavailable, and its marketplace listing prices it on contract terms. You talk to their team, describe your catalogue, and get a quote. That is normal for a platform built for brands and marketplaces, and the final figure depends on how many models you need and which outputs you use. There is no reliable public number, so get the quote in writing before you compare.

ARQR360 publishes its price: $249 one-time setup and $29 a month. The AR (Augmented Reality) views are included. No product cap, no per-view fee, no separate content creation charge on top.

Setup effort: a platform you run vs photos in, catalogue out

A Hexa project means your team runs the platform. You upload product images, review the models in the CMS, manage the assets, and place the viewer code on your product pages. If you have an e-commerce team, that is a workable project. If you are a shop with six staff and a Shopify store, it is a second job nobody asked for.

With ARQR360 the project is: send photos, get a working AR catalogue back in about seven days. The links go on your product pages. The QR codes go on the floor tags. There is nothing to integrate and nothing to maintain.

True-to-size accuracy

Both routes put products in the customer's room at real dimensions. The honest difference is not polish. It is what you go through to get your sofa live, and what you pay every year to keep it there. For a store whose problem is customers guessing whether a chair fits their corner, a true-to-size AR view that ships this month beats a perfect platform that ships next quarter.

One more number, and it is Shopify's own data, not ours: products with 3D or AR views convert about 94% better than products without. Whichever route you take, giving shoppers a true-to-size view beats a flat photo.

Who each one fits

Hexa makes sense if:

• You are a brand or a large retailer with an e-commerce team
• You want one 3D asset pipeline feeding the viewer, AR, 360 spins, and rendered marketing images
• You sell at marketplace scale and need thousands of models managed in one CMS
• Your budget fits a quoted enterprise platform

ARQR360 is designed for stores like yours if:

• You are an independent furniture retailer or showroom
• You sell finished pieces and hold no CAD files
• You use Shopify, WooCommerce, or a simple website
• You want shoppers to check size and fit in their own rooms, fast
• You need one public price with no surprises

The question to ask both vendors

Before you sign anything, ask both of us the same four questions in writing: what is the full annual cost including every 3D asset, who builds the models and from what source material, what happens to your models if you end the contract, and does the customer need to download an app. The answers will tell you which tool fits your store faster than any feature list.

For another comparison in the same aisle, read ARQR360 vs Cylindo.

The cheapest way to check if AR works for your store

You do not have to commit to anything to find out. Send a photo of your bestselling sofa or armchair and we will build you one true-to-size AR (Augmented Reality) view free. Put it on your own phone, check it against the real piece, and see if your customers would use it. If it does not convince you, you have spent nothing. Try the live furniture demo first: it opens in your phone browser, no install.

The returns problem underneath all of this is a size problem, and it is worth seeing the whole picture in AR for furniture stores: cutting returns with true-to-size views before you choose a route.