Pallet Designer pricing — palletizing configurator for integrators

Three system components: integrator team licence, end-customer configurator and machine integration. Below you'll find the design-licence price, how the other components are quoted, the benefits and answers to the most common licensing questions

3 system components licence from €2,800/year

Pallet Designer — palletizing configurator for integrators

Pricing

Three system components, three benefits

Pallet Designer is a system built from three components: a design tool for your team, a configurator app at the end customer, and integration elements for the machine itself. The design licence has a fixed price — the other components are quoted according to the scope of deployment

01· Engineering

Integrator licence

A working tool for your designers, automation and robotics engineers

Full program functionality — designing layers and pallets, mixing products, testing gripper variants, live validation
Data export to the machine, files for robot simulation, PDF documentation
Licence transferable between devices
No constant internet required
User manual, team training

from €2 800 / year, net

for one design seat · annual subscription

Team pack several seats in one company — quote on request

Perpetual licence one-off, no annual fees — quote on request

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02· Customer configurator

End-customer application licence

A configurator for new layouts delivered together with the machine

Pallet Designer at the end customer — safe layout creation based on machine parameters set up earlier by your team
User-friendly graphical interface — an operator or process engineer creates a new layout in minutes, without specialised knowledge
Data export to the machine as a file package, plus PDF generation with pallet view and parameters
A proven, ready line item in your quote — no need to build your own configurator
User manual, training and implementation support

Quote on request

depends on the number of machines, lines and plants at the end customer

Two options a perpetual licence for the end customer or an annual subscription

Additional machines deployment packs for further lines or plants of the same customer

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03· Integration

Machine integration

Ready functions, screens and elements to drop into your machine program

Ready function blocks for the PLC — data and recipe handling, functions that expose data to the robot, convenient interfaces for use in your program
HMI screens and scripts — file reading, recipe management, layer preview and other ready-to-implement functions
Integrator team training — online or on-site
Technical assistance during the first machine commissioning
Minor code tuning to the integrator's standard

Quoted by scope

one-off · depends on the controller platform and the scope of integration

Standard scope · Siemens ready PLC blocks, HMI screens and scripts, team training

Other systems & customisations quoted once we've agreed the scope

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Return on investment

Pallet Designer pays for itself on the first project

For an integrator, Pallet Designer's value comes from two measurable sources: fewer hours from your engineering team on every machine, plus a solid line item in your quote for the end customer that you sell without writing a single line of your own code

Savings on a single project 19–84h Engineering hours that stay in your margin on a typical deployment — without compromising quality. At an internal rate of 40 EUR/h that's 760 – 3 360 EUR per project, and across three machines a year — up to 10 000 EUR

Added line item in your quote ~€5k–€25k+ That's how much you add to the machine quote for the end-customer configurator — from standard deployments to large projects. The profit stays with you

Source 1 · internal

Your engineering team works faster and with more confidence

19–84 h saved on a typical project

≈ 760 – 3 360 EUR at an internal rate of 40 EUR/h

3–12 h Mechanical design and feasibility analysis

The designer picks the gripper and checks layout feasibility on a live preview. The app shows immediately whether the chosen gripper size and type allows the planned drop-offs, whether there are collisions, and how many items can be picked at once. Decisions that used to require drawing variants, analysis and manual recalculation now take minutes
3–16 h PLC and HMI programming

No more handwriting recipes for every new layout. You load the data generated by the app and the machine immediately knows what to do. Once integrated into your PLC/HMI/robot setup, it becomes a ready building block for every following project. The operator gets a visual preview of the layer from images generated by the app — no extra programmer effort
5–24 h Robot programming and preparation

The robotics engineer gets ready-made data: product, layer and drop-off parameters and pick data in a consistent format — used in production and easily loaded into a simulator without manually generating layouts. After teaching points and programming logic and gripper, the rest of the pick, place and interlayer data is generated by the app. A consistent data-exchange methodology and validation of moves and machine settings inside the app let you trust the algorithm and focus on next steps instead of analysing each layout separately. You can pick drop-offs manually — if you know reach will be tight, choose a different gripper orientation or define a virtual zone the algorithm avoids. You stay in full control — Pallet Designer provides data, not decisions
8–32 h Testing and on-site commissioning

The strongest savings line. After deployment you physically test only the first layout — robot points, gripper, positions relative to the product. From that moment every next layout generated in the app simply works — because everything is produced in the same system, on the same station parameters. No building test scenarios, no waiting for product samples, no manually arranging products or layers just to test a case
days → min Modifications and new layouts after go-live

Customer asks for a tweak or a new variant? You open the layout in the app, create or move what's needed, generate, send or upload — three minutes of work. Every change is visible in the graphic interface, so there's no “I tweaked it the wrong way” risk. Based on machine parameters the program will only generate valid layer and pallet data. No manual position recalculation, no digging through recipe files. Each new variant can be safely created in minutes and sold at a higher margin with no need for an on-site visit

Those hours stay in the integrator's margin. The end customer doesn't see them — they only see a machine that starts faster and runs more reliably. It also translates into faster project delivery and helps you finish on schedule

Source 2 · sales

A ready configurator in your quote — the margin stays with you

A ready, proven product instead of your own R&D project

A configurator tested in production, with maintenance and ongoing development — no risk of it not working out

offer Configurator inside the machine quote

End customers want flexibility — they want to add new layouts without calling the integrator for every flavour, packaging or pattern change. Pallet Designer delivers that as a ready, proven feature. You can include it as an extra line in the machine quote — with measurable value for the customer (flexibility, independence, shorter time-to-market)
minutes New layout post go-live — no extra on-site visit

Even if the customer didn't buy the configurator — when they call asking for a new pallet pattern, preparing it on your side takes minutes instead of hours or days. You send files online. How much you charge for that job is your pricing policy. Margin grows because your cost drops to a minimum
30 s Layout PDF — ready collateral for the customer

You design the layout in the app, click “generate PDF” and you get a finished document: layer visualisations, technical parameters, full pallet description. No CAD drawing, no screenshots, no Excel stitching. A standard format you can email or attach to a quote — looks professional, takes zero effort
demo Show specifics, not promises — during the customer meeting

Customer asks “can the machine handle our 12 SKUs?”, “will it fit on a EUR pallet?”, “what about a new box we’ll have next year?”. Instead of “let me check and get back to you next week” — you open Pallet Designer, enter their format, their pallet, their products and show a live 3D layout. The customer leaves the meeting with specifics, not a promise. Sales cycle shortens, trust grows

The end-customer configurator isn't a cost — it's a €5k–€25k added line item in the machine quote. The customer gets autonomy, you increase profit from a stronger quote

Pallet Designer pays back on the first project — through the engineering hours saved and an additional €5k–€25k added to the quote for the end customer. Book a 20-minute call to calculate it for your scenario

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FAQ

Questions about licences and pricing

What the licence includes, how a subscription differs from a perpetual licence, and what drives the price of the other system components

Are the prices net?

Yes. All amounts are net prices, VAT is added on top. The integrator licence costs from €2,800 per year for one design seat. The other system components are quoted in a written offer once the scope is agreed

What does the annual integrator licence include?

Full program functionality on one seat: designing layers and pallets, mixing products, testing gripper variants, layout validation, data export to the machine, files for robot simulation and PDF documentation

The price includes a user manual and team training. The program works without a permanent internet connection, and the licence can be transferred to another device

How does a perpetual licence differ from a subscription?

A subscription is an annual fee — after a year you renew the licence for the next period. A perpetual licence is a one-off payment after which the program runs with no further annual fees. Its value corresponds roughly to five years of subscription

The perpetual option pays off for teams that know they will use Pallet Designer across many projects. We quote it on request

Can I start with one licence and add seats later?

Yes. The simplest route is a single design seat. When more people need the program — quoting, design and commissioning in parallel — we prepare a team pack for several seats in one company. The pack is quoted on request, at better terms than the sum of individual licences

What determines the price of the end-customer configurator?

The scope of deployment: the number of machines, lines and plants where the end customer will create layouts independently, and the chosen option — a perpetual licence or an annual subscription

For the integrator it's a line item added to the machine quote with your own margin. The end customer gains independence, you gain a stronger offer

What determines the price of machine integration?

The controller platform and the scope of work. For the Siemens standard we have ready PLC function blocks, HMI screens and scripts, so integration is fastest there. Other control systems, additional export formats, MES/ERP integration or on-site training are quoted separately once the scope is agreed

Can I see the program before buying?

Yes. We arrange a 20-minute online demo in which we build a pallet layout in Pallet Designer using your data: format, pallet, products. After the demo you receive an offer tailored to the scope of your project

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