What UK Furniture Stores Should Check Before Buying AR (Augmented Reality)

Picture a furniture store owner in Bristol. She sells sofas, armchairs and dining tables from one showroom and a website. Her shoppers keep asking the same question: will this piece fit my room. She decides to look into AR (Augmented Reality), and finds a dozen providers, a dozen prices, and a dozen different promises. This checklist is the plain version of what to check before she signs anything.

Five checks cover nearly everything that matters. Ask every provider the same five questions, in writing, and compare the answers side by side.

1. Who produces the views

This is the biggest cost on most routes, and the one most often hidden. Some providers sell you software only. You supply every view yourself, usually commissioned piece by piece. A store with 40 bestsellers faces a production project before anything earns a pound.

Ask: who produces the AR (Augmented Reality) views, from what source material, and what do new-season pieces cost. With ARQR360, you send photos of your bestselling pieces and their real listed dimensions, and our talented designing department builds the true-to-size AR (Augmented Reality) views, hosts them, and hands you the links and QR codes. About seven days from photos to a live catalogue. There is nothing to integrate and nothing to maintain on your side.

2. Does the shopper need an app

Ask this before you sign, because it decides whether anyone uses the thing at all. People do not install apps to look at a sofa. If the view opens only inside an app, most of your shoppers will never see it.

With ARQR360, each piece gets a link and a QR code that opens the AR (Augmented Reality) view in the phone browser. Try it yourself on our live furniture demo. It opens in the browser, no install, and shows exactly what your shoppers would see.

3. How is true size proven

A sofa that is even a few centimetres off teaches the shopper the tool cannot be trusted. Ask every provider how they verify each view against the real listed dimensions of the piece, and ask to see the proof on your own bestselling piece before you pay for a catalogue.

That proof is what cuts the returns. For the returns side of the same story, read how UK furniture stores cut returns with true-to-size AR. Shopify reports that products with 3D or AR views convert about 94% better than products without. That figure comes from Shopify's own data, not from ARQR360. The mechanism is plain: shoppers who can check the true size hesitate less.

4. What does one year really cost

Never compare monthly fees alone. Add the view production, the setup, the hosting, and the new range. On routes where views are charged per piece, the production bill quietly dwarfs the subscription on a catalogue that changes.

ARQR360 is flat and public: $249 one-time setup and $29 a month, with all AR (Augmented Reality) view production included. No product cap, no per-view fees. Ask every other provider for the same one-year total, in writing, for your catalogue size.

5. What happens after launch

A catalogue that never changes goes stale. Ask who adds new pieces, how fast, and what it costs. Ask what happens to your views if you end the contract.

With ARQR360, we stay with you after launch. We follow up, we help you add new-season pieces, and we shape custom packages for shops that want more, such as a full catalogue rollout or a branded AR page for a big promotion. You are not handed a tool and left alone. You get a service that keeps your catalogue current while you run the shop. The same QR codes work on the product page, on the floor piece, in the shop window, and on social media. Anywhere a shopper meets the piece, the true-size view is one scan away.

The cheapest way to check if it 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 put it on the product page for a week. Watch what your shoppers do with it. If it does not convince you, you have spent nothing. Start with the live furniture demo first: it opens in your phone browser, no install.