A custom framer's real expertise is in the details: moulding, mats, glazing, what fits and what doesn't. We turned that into an online frame designer that walks customers through one decision at a time, draws the result to scale, prices it live, and hands a complete work order to the shop's normal Shopify checkout.
A framed piece has dozens of choices: size, paper, mat style, moulding, glazing, mounting and hanging hardware. Every combination changes the price, and some combinations don't physically work. A standard Shopify product tops out long before that, and most product-option apps charge a monthly fee while still not knowing anything about framing.
The bigger risk is size. Misjudging how big a piece will look on the wall is the most common custom-framing regret, and a flat thumbnail doesn't help.
Customers upload their art, then choose product type, size, paper, mat, moulding, glazing and hardware in order. Each step collapses to a one-line summary once it's chosen, and the running price stays pinned on screen.
A canvas renderer draws mitred moulding painted from the manufacturer's photo, bevelled mats and glass reflections. A "To scale" view hangs the piece above an 84-inch sofa, so the customer can judge the size before ordering.
A live resolution check warns when an upload is too small to print well. The builder enforces mat geometry, refuses real glass above a safe size, and checks that the moulding is deep enough for everything inside it. Any warning the customer clicks past is recorded on the order.
The same geometry drives both the drawing and the price, so a frame that looks a certain way is always priced that way. Shopify won't let a storefront set an arbitrary price, so the builder uses a hidden 5-cent "carrier" product with a quantity that adds up to the exact total. Tax, discounts and refunds then work through Shopify's normal checkout, with no app and no monthly fee.
Each order is designed to carry a readable work order in the line item, plus hidden details for the bench: the full specification, the price breakdown, every cut dimension, and the warnings the customer accepted. The original artwork, a preview image and the spec file travel with it.
The demo runs with a mock cart. The connection to KH's live Shopify store is written and ready for testing, and that's the next step before launch.
Yes. The public demo is at framing.zohadigital.co. It uses a demo cart instead of KH's live store.
If your product has options that change the price and the look (sizes, materials, finishes, personalization), yes. We'd start by mapping your options and pricing rules, then decide whether a custom builder or an off-the-shelf app is the better fit. Read how to build a Shopify product customizer without an app.
That's the point of the design. The order goes through Shopify's own cart and checkout, so taxes, discount codes, Shop Pay and refunds work the way they do for any other product.
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