Frequently Asked Questions

Floor Planner is a browser-based flooring takeoff and workflow platform. It is designed to take a project from floor planning and material quantities through vinyl cutting optimisation, quoting and installer handover.

Floor Planner is designed for commercial flooring businesses, estimators, business owners, installers and retail or DIY users who need to create a floor plan, calculate flooring quantities or request a flooring quote.

No. Floor Planner is designed to run through a web browser, so the main workflow does not require a traditional Windows desktop software installation.

Yes. Floor Planner supports commercial project workflows including takeoff, product assignment, vinyl cut planning, business pricing, Quote Magic, team permissions and Installer Job Packs.

Yes. Retail users can use the floor planning workflow and can request a professional flooring quote without being given access to a business's commercial pricing.

Yes. Projects can be saved to the user's account so they can be reopened and continued later rather than being tied to a single browser session.

A project can be built from rooms, walls, doors and connected areas so the flooring takeoff reflects the actual job geometry.

Yes. Multi-room projects can be created and kept together as one job, which is important when material direction, shared products, quoting and installation information need to remain connected.

Yes. Products can be assigned by room, allowing a project to contain different materials and specifications within the same floor plan.

Yes. Floor Planner uses the project geometry to calculate floor area and other measurements used by the takeoff and quoting workflow.

Yes. Doors and openings form part of the project geometry and can also matter to vinyl seam and installation planning.

Yes. The floor plan can be revised as the job changes, with the updated geometry then feeding into the downstream takeoff and workflow.

Yes. One of Floor Planner's core design goals is to keep the floor plan, quantities, quote and installer information connected to the same project.

Floor Planner uses the room geometry together with the selected roll width and cutting rules to calculate an actual sheet-vinyl layout. This allows it to report both the floor area and the linear metres required from the roll.

Floor area measures the surface being covered, while sheet vinyl is purchased from a fixed-width roll. Room shape, seam position, installation direction, offcuts and installer allowances can increase the number of linear metres required.

Cutting Magic is Floor Planner's vinyl cutting and optimisation workflow. It turns room geometry into installable pieces and searches for layouts that reduce material usage while respecting the rules applied to the job.

Yes. Floor Planner can compare alternative cutting arrangements and packing options to find efficient layouts for the selected vinyl product and roll width.

Yes. Sort by Room is designed to keep room pieces organised together, which can make cutting and installation easier to follow.

Yes. Cross Room optimisation can allow compatible pieces from different rooms to share roll space where doing so is permitted by the project rules.

Best Sort searches alternative valid cutting arrangements and compares their material usage. It is intended to find a more efficient layout while still respecting the installation constraints applied to the project.

Yes. The selected roll width is a fundamental part of the vinyl calculation and cut layout.

Yes. Multi-material projects can contain multiple vinyl products, with quantities and cut information kept separate by product.

Yes. Cut-list output can identify individual pieces and relate them back to the rooms and material they belong to.

Yes. Installation direction can be controlled, including horizontal and vertical orientations where appropriate.

Yes. Compatible orientations can be compared so the estimator can see whether one direction produces a better material result.

Yes. Direction can be forced where the visual or installation requirement is more important than allowing the optimiser to choose.

Yes. Direction groups can link rooms that need to maintain the same installation direction or grain relationship.

Yes. A Do Not Split rule can be applied to rooms where a continuous piece is required, subject to the physical roll width and room geometry.

Yes. Doorway seam restrictions can be used as part of the vinyl installation rules so the optimiser does not place a seam where the project does not allow one.

Yes. The standard seam grid can be adjusted and additional seams can be added separately, allowing the estimator to refine the automated layout for unusual geometry or installation requirements.

Yes. Floor area and roll-based material requirement are treated as different measurements so the estimator can see the covered area as well as the amount of sheet material that needs to be ordered.

Floor Planner can show the difference between the true floor area and the material used by the selected cut layout, helping the estimator understand the effect of roll width, room shape and cutting decisions.

Required – True Material Only represents the geometric material needed to cover the project without adding the practical fitting allowances used for production.

Production – Installer Allowance includes additional material used for practical cutting, trimming and fitting so the production requirement can differ from the exact room geometry.

Yes. Allowance settings can be configured so the production cut reflects the way the business or installer wants pieces prepared.

Yes. Seam measurements can be used by the project and Quote Magic workflow for related products such as weld rod where those rules have been configured.

Yes. Business product and pricing information can be maintained for the organisation so authorised estimators work from the same product set.

Yes. Pricing belongs to the business account, allowing each organisation to maintain its own commercial pricing rather than sharing one platform-wide rate.

Yes. Products-only access is designed for team members who need product and installation information but should not receive the business's commercial pricing.

No. Pricing permissions are enforced by the backend so restricted users are not simply relying on visually hidden price fields.

Yes. Authorised business pricing and product rules can be used when project quantities are turned into quote lines.

Quote Magic is Floor Planner's quoting workflow. It uses the project takeoff, product information and configured business rules to turn measurements into a working flooring quote.

Yes. Quote rules can use project quantities and measurements to create relevant material, labour and related product lines.

Yes. Business rules can be configured so a flooring product or calculated measurement can add associated materials or work items to the quote.

Yes. Automation does not remove estimator control. The quote can be reviewed and adjusted before it is published or sent.

Yes. Measurement-driven rules can be used for products or work items that depend on quantities such as perimeter, seam length or other calculated project measurements.

Yes. The quoting workflow is designed to remain associated with the project that produced the quantities, reducing the need to rebuild the job in a separate quoting system.

Yes. The Job Pack workflow is based on the approved or published project and quote information, allowing the business to control when installation information is generated.

An Installer Job Pack is a site-focused version of the job that can contain products, quantities, room information and installation guidance without exposing the commercial quote.

No. The Job Pack is designed as a non-financial projection of the job and excludes commercial rates, margins, profit, GST and quote totals.

Yes. Job Pack selection can be controlled so relevant materials and installation items are included while unrelated or commercial-only lines are left out.

Yes. The Job Pack can be included with the project's cut-list and visual output so the installer can receive one combined job document.

Depending on the project, the PDF can include roll summaries, cut pieces, room or polygon information, floor-plan views, 3D information and an optional Installer Job Pack.

Yes. Multi-material projects can include separate roll and cut information for each relevant flooring product.

A Business account keeps the organisation's projects, products, pricing and permissions associated with the business rather than one individual user.

A Business Owner can manage the organisation and team, including controlling who is allowed to create quotes or see commercial pricing.

A quote-enabled member can access the business tools needed to create quotes and use authorised pricing for the organisation.

A products-only member can access products and installation information without being given access to the business's commercial pricing or quote creation tools.

Yes. Business accounts can invite users so team access can be managed centrally.

Because projects and pricing are associated with the business account, the organisation can manage team access without relying on the departing employee's personal ownership of the workflow.

Floor Planner's account model supports users working in more than one business context where they have been granted the appropriate membership and permissions.

Yes. Retail and DIY users can use the floor planning workflow to capture the project information needed for takeoff or a quote request.

No. Retail access is separate from a business's commercial pricing permissions.

Yes. Retail users can submit a quote request so the project can be reviewed by an appropriate flooring business.

Retail users can work with the product information made available for the planning and quote-request process without receiving restricted business pricing.

Yes. Quote requests can enter the platform workflow so they can be assigned, reviewed and progressed by the relevant business.

Yes. Website forms can send different lead types into the Floor Planner platform so enquiries can be handled as part of the business workflow.

Yes. Routing rules can be set independently for different types of enquiries, such as commercial trials, commercial quote leads, retail floor-planning leads and retail quote leads.

Yes. Manual assignment allows the Platform Administrator to choose the business that should receive a particular lead.

Yes. A routing rule can send a selected lead type to one nominated business.

Yes. Round-robin routing can distribute a selected lead type across a chosen group of businesses.

Floor Planner supports Google sign-in, Microsoft sign-in and passwordless email sign-in where those authentication methods are enabled.

Passwordless email sign-in can be used without creating a conventional Floor Planner password, and Google or Microsoft sign-in can also be used where configured.

The login page includes a sign-up pathway back to the website so a new user can choose the correct registration, trial or quote-request process.

Yes. Pricing access is permission-controlled and restricted users are not sent the protected commercial pricing data.

Yes. Floor Planner separates business ownership, quote-enabled access and products-only access so the information shown to each user can match their role.

Yes. A 3D view can be generated from the project to help users and installers understand the relationship between rooms and the floor plan.

Yes. 3D imagery can form part of the project documentation where the relevant output option is used.

Yes. Once the project layout has been applied, a PDF can be created with the relevant cut, room and project information.

Yes. Project documentation is designed to use the project name so the resulting files relate clearly to the actual job.

Floor Planner can be considered as an alternative for businesses looking for browser-based flooring takeoff, sheet-vinyl optimisation, quoting, installer handover and business workflow tools in one connected platform.

No. The platforms overlap in areas such as takeoff, sheet-vinyl layout, estimating and project output, but they are not identical. MeasureSquare has mature capabilities such as AI-assisted takeoff, very large multi-page plan processing, CAD export and a broader established CRM ecosystem.

A major difference is how the workflow is packaged. Floor Planner is designed to keep takeoff, Cutting Magic, Quote Magic, Installer Job Packs, permissions and lead-routing workflow within one platform subscription, while MeasureSquare offers separate products for different parts of its wider ecosystem.

MeasureSquare currently promotes mature batch PDF and large multi-page commercial plan workflows, so businesses heavily focused on very large plan sets may value that capability.

Not currently. Floor Planner focuses on connected project workflow, vinyl cutting optimisation, quoting, permissions and installer handover rather than claiming AI plan takeoff at this stage.

Yes. MeasureSquare offers a separately priced CRM product with broader lead, project, installation and job-management capabilities.

Both platforms support sheet-vinyl estimating and cut planning. The practical choice depends on the business's required optimisation rules, broader workflow, integrations, preferred platform model and software budget rather than a single feature.

Yes. The website provides a Commercial FREE Trial pathway for flooring businesses that want to evaluate the platform.

Yes. A trial is intended to let a business test the workflow before making a broader team decision.

Floor Planner is designed to include those connected workflow components within the Floor Planner platform rather than requiring a separate CRM subscription for the built-in quote and Job Pack workflow.

Use the website's sign-up or enquiry form and choose the option that best matches your situation, such as a commercial trial, business quote enquiry, DIY floor plan or retail flooring quote request.