Interactive Floor Plans

What was once a rare luxury on a builders’ website, Interactive Floor Plans (IFP’s) have become an industry expectation. Builders who thought IFP’s were more novelty than a functional sales tool can no longer argue the overwhelming evidence that IFP’s engage buyers resulting in: 

• Increased time on their websites. 
• Increased qualified homebuyer leads. 
• Increased number of options sold. 
• Creating positive emotional connections to your plans.  
• Converting leads to active prospects in a faster timeline.   
  

Builders also find IFP’s equally as valuable to their sales team as they are to the homebuyer. Why? One reason is that comprehensive IFP’s can answer 80% of the questions your sales staff needs to field. The buyer experience is tremendously better when the simple questions are already answered, allowing the sales team to focus on selling instead of trying to help figure out how furniture will work, how options change square footage and price, “…and why do I lose the casita option when I choose the expanded garage?” 

Picking the right IFP vendor the first time is of the greatest importance.

Not all IFP’s are created equal 

When choosing a vendor to build and host what is arguably your most important online sales tool, in addition to the basics, make sure the platform you select has ALL the following advanced features: 

• Branding – First and foremost, ensure your IFP’s are skinned and colored to match your website, logo, and corporate colors.

• Lead Generation – The ability to save a custom plan that not only tracks these leads, but also pushes them to your CRM. 

• Space-Planning – A detailed furniture library with scalable items for every room, including the garage and outdoor living areas. 

• Live Updates – Dynamic pricing and square footage so as buyers add options the price and square footage automatically reflect that. 

• Hot Spots – Clickable icons within your plan allowing buyers to open renderings, photos, videos, virtual reality and any other eye candy to keep them engaged. 

• Device Agnostic – Regardless of the brand of computer, laptop, tablet or phone, your IFP’s work on ALL of them. 

Remember, picking the right IFP vendor the first time is of the greatest importance. Select a company that knows what they are doing because this is not a process you want to go through a second or third time. If you find yourself dissatisfied with your IFP’s (or vendor) after creating them, they can’t simply be transferred to another vendor. You must pay to have them rebuilt from scratch again.

20-years ago Outhouse was the first to offer IFP’s to home builders. Our platform continues to offer the most mature, dependable, feature-rich, engaging user experience in the industry.