Furniture Store Apps for Lead Times, Swatches and Delivery Days

Mythex lets a furniture store build a website that shows real dimensions and honest lead times, an online shop that takes a deposit on made-to-order pieces, and an inventory app that knows which incoming sofa belongs to which customer. You describe your showroom and ranges, review the live preview, and publish it on a real database.

What a furniture retailer needs that a generic shop does not

Nobody buys a three-seater on impulse. Customers sit on it in the showroom, take three fabric swatches home, measure the stairwell and come back two weeks later. Floor stock can go the same day, but a made-to-order piece may take ten or twelve weeks from the factory, and that lead time gets explained on the phone again and again. Then the order needs a deposit, a balance before delivery, a two-person crew and a delivery day that suits the van's route. When orders live in the till, a spreadsheet and the driver's notebook, customers chase, staff guess, and the wrong sofa gets held in the warehouse.

Dimensions, including diagonal depth, on every product
Fabric and finish variants with their own price and lead time
Deposits on made-to-order pieces, balance on arrival
Incoming factory stock reserved for named customers
Delivery days by area, with two-person crews
Swatch requests followed up a week later

What you can build for furniture stores

An online shop that handles fabric, deposits and delivery zones

Each sofa has variants for size, fabric grade and leg finish, each with its own price and lead time. Made-to-order items take a deposit with the balance requested when the piece reaches your warehouse. Delivery is charged by zone, with extras for stairs, assembly or taking the old sofa away.

Build an online store for my furniture shop. Products have variants for size, fabric grade and leg finish, each with a price and lead time. Made-to-order items take a 30% deposit with the balance requested on arrival. Charge delivery by postcode zone with extras for assembly and removal of old furniture.

Stock that knows floor, warehouse and on order

Track floor models, warehouse stock and pieces on order separately. Each confirmed factory order is tagged to the customer it belongs to, so when the container arrives the warehouse knows what to hold and what is free for the floor. Damaged and ex-display pieces are marked for clearance.

Make an inventory app for a furniture store with stock by location (showroom, warehouse, on order), expected arrival dates per supplier order, each on-order item linked to a customer order, and an ex-display or damaged status that sends items to a clearance list.

A showroom website with honest measurements

Product pages lead with width, depth, height, seat height and diagonal depth, with a printable measuring checklist. Each range says in stock or made to order and how long it takes. Customers request swatches or book a showroom visit instead of filling in a blank contact form.

Build a website for a furniture store with ranges for sofas, dining and bedroom, product pages showing all dimensions including diagonal depth, a lead time label (in stock or made to order, weeks), a swatch request form, delivery areas and a returns policy for custom pieces.

A call sheet built from swatch requests

Every swatch request and showroom visit becomes a record with the pieces looked at, room measurements and a next-contact date. Each morning the sales team filters by date. Past buyers keep their range, so staff can suggest the matching sideboard.

Create a CRM for a furniture showroom: customers with pieces viewed, swatches taken, room measurements, budget and a next-contact date; past purchases by range; and a daily call list of who is due a follow-up.

Delivery days that follow the van

Customers pick only from the days your van serves their area, in a morning or afternoon window, with a cap per day. Deliveries with assembly or removal get a longer slot. Design consultations and home measure visits book separately.

Build a delivery booking page for a furniture store. Customers enter their postcode and see only that area's delivery days, choose morning or afternoon, with eight drops per day. Assembly adds 30 minutes. Add separate bookings for showroom consultations and home measure visits.

Which supplier keeps running late

Compare promised and actual lead times per supplier, list orders past their promised date, and total deposits held for items not yet delivered. Quote longer times for the slow range up front and the phone rings less.

Make a dashboard for my furniture store showing open orders by expected arrival, average promised versus actual lead time per supplier, orders past their promised date, and total deposits held for undelivered items.

What to set up first

Start with the order record, because everything else hangs from it: customer, items with fabric and finish, deposit, balance, supplier, promised date and delivery slot. Enter the open orders you have now. Once those are right, the inventory, dashboard and delivery booking can all read from them, and the website can show lead times from the same supplier data.

Open customer orders with promised dates
Suppliers and their typical lead times
Delivery areas and the days you serve them

From the driver's notebook to a delivery list

Once delivery slots are booked in the app, ask for a daily run sheet grouped by area with the address, items, balance to collect and any notes about stairs or parking. The crew opens it on a phone, marks each drop delivered, and the office sees the day finish without a single call.

Questions

Can customers pay a deposit and the rest on delivery?

Yes. Each order can record a deposit and a balance, and request the second payment when the item arrives. Card payments need a payment provider you connect with your own account, such as Stripe.

Can product pages show fabric options with different prices?

Yes. Ask for variants per fabric grade or finish, each with its own price, photo and lead time.

Can it tell me which incoming pieces are already sold?

Yes. Link each on-order item to the customer order it fulfils, and the warehouse view shows what to hold when the delivery arrives.

Can delivery crews use it on their phones?

Yes, in any phone browser. On Pro it can also be turned into Android and iPhone apps that open your published app.

Is it free to try?

Yes. The Free plan needs no card and is enough to build and publish a first version. Pro is $25/month and adds your own domain, code editing and export.

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