ARQR360 vs Sayduck: What a Rug Store Actually Gets from Each

Picture a rug store owner in Manchester. She sells Persian-style and modern rugs from one shop and a website. Her customers love the patterns online but hesitate at the same point. They cannot tell if the rug will fit their living room. She starts looking into AR and lands on two names. Sayduck, the 3D viewer company behind many design brands. And ARQR360. Both promise AR. They are built for very different buyers. Here is the honest version.

What Sayduck is

Sayduck is a 3D product visualisation company from Helsinki. Its platform gives online stores a 3D viewer, a product configurator, and an AR preview that runs in the phone browser with no app. Shoppers can spin the product, change colours and materials, and then place it in their own room at real scale.

For Shopify stores there is a Sayduck app that syncs the catalogue with no code. Prices and stock update with each configuration. The company also runs a 3D creation service that builds the models from your product images when you do not have them.

What ARQR360 is

ARQR360 is a done-for-you AR (Augmented Reality) catalogue for independent rug retailers. You send photos of your bestselling rugs and we build the true-to-size AR (Augmented Reality) views from them, host them, and hand you links and QR codes that open the AR view in your customer's phone browser. No app. No platform to learn. No 3D team.

The audience is different. ARQR360 is built for stores that sell finished products off the shelf, not brands running configurator projects across a catalogue.

Price: platform subscription vs one flat rate

Sayduck does not publish one fixed price list. Software directories list monthly tiers in the area of $29 to $99, and their 3D creation service is priced per model. Those figures move, so the only reliable number is the one you get from them in writing. The subscription buys the platform: the viewer, the configurator, the AR preview. The 3D models your products need are a separate line.

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

Setup effort: syncing a catalogue vs sending photos

A Sayduck project starts with your catalogue. If you run Shopify, the app syncs products and the setup is no-code. But AR needs a 3D model of each rug. If you do not have models, someone has to build them: their creation service or your own supplier. For rugs the configurator is often the part you use least. A rug is a fixed pattern at a fixed size. What the customer needs is the one true-to-size view on their own floor.

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 in the shop. There is nothing to integrate and nothing to maintain.

True-to-size accuracy

Both platforms show products at real dimensions. The honest difference is not the viewer. It is what you go through to get each rug live, and what you pay every year to keep it there. For a store whose problem is customers guessing at size, a true-to-size AR view that ships this month beats a full platform that ships next quarter.

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

Who each one fits

Sayduck makes sense if:

• You are a brand with products customers configure: colours, fabrics, sizes
• You want the configurator, not just the AR view
• You already have 3D models, or budget for per-model creation
• You run Shopify and want a no-code catalogue sync

ARQR360 is designed for stores like yours if:

• You are an independent rug retailer or showroom
• Your rugs are fixed products, not configurable
• You hold no 3D files and want the whole thing handled
• You use Shopify, WooCommerce, or a simple website
• 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 model, who builds the 3D models and from what source material, what happens to the 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 the returns side of the story, read how rug stores cut size returns with AR.

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 rug and we will build you one true-to-size AR (Augmented Reality) view free. Put it on your own floor, walk around it, check the size with your own eyes, and decide with the thing in front of you. If it does not convince you, you have spent nothing. Try the live rug demo first: it opens in your phone browser, no install.