Your kitchen showroom answers the question about price

"How much is that one?"

The price of a fitted kitchen depends on the dimensions, the doors, the worktop, the appliances. You know that, the passer-by does not. They see an oak island under the spotlights and come up with their own figure, often too high. They do not come in.

You choose the answer. You can give the price of the model as displayed, a starting price for a standard run of units, or no figure at all and explain that a quote follows a measuring visit. The assistant sticks to what you wrote. It never works out a price itself.

Either way, it ends with the same offer: leave your name and phone number for a design appointment.

One QR code per display kitchen, open or closed

Each kitchen on display has its page and its QR code, in the window and in the showroom. On a Saturday afternoon, when all your designers are sitting with a customer, the couple waiting can already ask about the model they like. Here is what is worth loading for each model:

• The door colours and handles available for this model.
• The worktop materials on offer, and how their care differs.
• The appliances on display and the brands you sell.
• The display price or starting price, if you choose to show it.
• The manufacturing and fitting lead time you usually quote.
• What is included: measuring, delivery, fitting, guarantees.
• How appointments work: in the showroom, at home, expected length.

The next morning, a list of projects

Every morning you receive the requests left the day before and on Sunday: the name, how to reach them, the kitchen they looked at and the question asked. A visitor who asked about fitting before the summer is not called back like one who only wanted a rough price.

The questions the assistant could not answer reach you too. They show what is missing from your pages, and you fill the gaps from your phone.

The foreign visitor is not forgotten. In a border town or a tourist area, a French owner renovating a holiday home asks in French and gets the answer in French, drawn from your pages in English. You then call them back like any other customer.

The right hardware for a kitchen shop

Kiosky runs on the screen you already have, or with a simple QR code printed on the card placed in each kitchen. In that case only the licence is due: €1,190 excl. VAT a year per window.

For the showroom entrance, the recommended pack is the MacLocks PowerMove BrandMe reception kiosk, at €1,650 excl. VAT for the first year, licence included. The panel is in your colours and the tablet lifts off the kiosk, which charges it. A designer can carry it to the model to carry on the conversation in front of the doors, then put it back.

For the street window, the MacLocks BrandMe backlit window kiosk, at €1,590 excl. VAT for the first year, stays visible when the shop lights are off. The tablet is never supplied. From the second year, only the licence renews.

What remains your job

The assistant does not draw plans, does not measure up and does not quote. It books no appointment into your diary: it collects the request, you call back. It only knows your pages, and if a model leaves the showroom without its page being removed, it will keep talking about it.

Nor does it compare your offer with the shop next door, and it does not promise a lead time you have not written. Its role comes earlier: answering the first questions, at the right moment, and passing you the people who have a real project.