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We’re excited to announce that OttLite is now available on The KITS collaborator! Explore their digital catalog and include their many lighting solutions for any space in your designs. 

The KITS collaborator is invaluable software for contract furniture sales reps. With its wide array of features and simple visualization tools, it’s a great way to visually sell your ideas to your clients and translate your ideas into easy-to-understand layouts. However, like any software, it’s possible you may need a refresher or have questions about some of the features of The KITS collaborator to get the most out of your tools.

To help you out, we have gone through KITS users’ feedback and pulled out some of the top frequently asked questions about The KITS collaborator. We’ll go through each of these questions and provide you with some solutions and our best tips and tricks for getting the most out of The KITS collaborator. 

How does one go about taking a space and transforming it into a well-designed and thought-out workspace, lobby, atrium, etc.? There can be a lot of pieces that can go into that space. You must consider a lot of variables such as the size of the furniture, how much space you need for foot traffic, and how to work with the physical restraints of the room. A Space Planning and Specification team is the support team one needs to help create the ideal space that takes advantage of every square foot. 

A space planning and specification team may not be a service that is as recognizable in the design world, but it should be. They do crucial work for designers, manufacturers, and visualizers to ensure the spaces they design are realistic and properly thought out with all logistics in mind. A space planning and specification team looks at both the little and big picture when it comes to spaces. 

Join us as we break down what exactly our space planning and specification can do for you and go through all the different services and skills they offer.

The KITS collaborator is a great tool for contract furniture sales that puts a lot of power into the hands of sales teams and their design partners. It has many tools and features that outpace traditional sales methods. This includes features that can help you visually present, re-specify and sell your products, including high-quality renders and augmented and virtual reality. A lot is packaged into The KITS collaborator to give you the power to show and sell. 

To make sure new users, and those who may need a refresh on some of the more intricate features of The KITS collaborator, are comfortable using The KITS collaborator, we have many different help sources that you can visit. To make things easier, we’ve compiled the top support resources for The KITS collaborator in this article to act as a jumping-off point for those looking for support or just a refresher on how some features work within The KITS collaborator. 

Product imagery is critical to sales and customer engagement for furniture manufacturers and dealers. To make sure your products stand out from the competiton while also being accurately represented, you rely on high-quality imagery that shows off your products and their key features. In the past, product imagery was mostly photography. Products would be staged in studios or other locations built around displaying the products. Now, we have furniture visualization services that go far beyond 2D photography. 

Are you curious about what exactly a visualization services team with expertise in contract furniture can offer for your products and sales? Check out our full guide to KiSP’s visualization services which represent the newest in the industry, below.

We’re excited to announce that Intelligent Office Furniture is now available on The KITS collaborator! To start building projects with their furniture solutions for multiple industries including industrial, educational, commercial, healthcare and food service, click here to request access to their digital catalogs. 

Photo Credit: Intelligent Office Furniture

Education manufacturers rely on showcasing their products in The KITS Collaborator so their teams can show stunning, inspired layouts to prospects every day. We love seeing the way that contract furniture can impact future learning for k-12 students and help shape the way they learn. We’ve rounded up some key 2023 education design trends that salespeople can use to help present their solutions and ensure they are giving the best options to their clients.

We’re excited to announce that NorvaNivel is now available on The KITS collaborator! Explore their digital catalog and include their products to meet your clients' education needs. 

We’ve reached the end of 2022! And what a year it was. This was a big year for the contract furniture and design industry as we saw many workers move back to working in offices and we entered the era of the hybrid worker. To help entice workers back into the office, designers had to get creative with workplace designs to create welcoming and multi-functional environments that would get people excited about coming back in.

This year we saw several new trends pop up across the furniture that is the direct result of this new hybrid work era. As 2022 comes to an end we will look back at the year and summarize some of the top office furniture design trends that we saw from our manufacturer clients across verticals. This way when we head into 2023 you have the best idea of what offices are looking for when it comes to designs and layouts. With The KITS Collaborator, you can easily apply these trends to your own clients and layouts. 

We’re excited to announce that MiEN Company is now available on The KITS collaborator! To start building projects with their furniture solutions for education spaces, click here to request access to their digital catalogs.