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Custom Chocolate Configurator

A 3D chocolate designer for your own website. Your customers design their chocolate, the wrapper and the packaging, see the price as they go, and send a quote or place an order. You run it all from your own Manager.

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Built For Chocolate Makers

Custom chocolate sells when the customer can see it. Custom Chocolate Configurator puts a turning 3D chocolate on your website, in the customer’s own shape and design, with your moulds, your recipes, your packaging and your prices behind it.

  • Bean To Bar Makers & ChocolatiersTake custom and corporate orders online, day and night.
  • Promotional & Corporate Gifting CompaniesOffer branded chocolate with a designer your clients enjoy using.
  • Confectionery FactoriesTake wrapper designs online for the brands you pour for.
  • Agencies & Web StudiosGive your chocolate clients a configurator that fits into the site you build for them.

Three Ways To Start

  • Choose A Ready Made ChocolateTwelve stock designs. Pick the chocolate and the size, add a logo or a name, design the wrapper, pick the packaging and order.
  • Create A Fully Custom ChocolateThe customer’s own artwork moulded into the chocolate, in sixteen short steps with one question each, ending in a quote.
  • We Design & BuildTen short questions about the dream. Your designer builds it and sends a preview link to turn, change and approve.

The 3D Chocolate

  • Turns In 3DFrom every angle, with a mouse, a finger or on its own.
  • Open It UpScroll or press to open the chocolate and see every layer and the filling.
  • Six BackdropsCream, Charcoal, Blush, Marble, Walnut and Linen.
  • True To SizeThickness, rim and design depth come from your own millimetres, so every chocolate looks like the real thing.
  • Seventeen Mould ShapesFrom rectangle, square, round and heart to maple leaf, star, Christmas tree, egg and house.
  • Any ShapeThe chocolate cut to the outline of the customer’s artwork, or a mould traced from any uploaded outline. Tips and clefts stay clean, with the rim and the rounded edges following the outline.

The Custom Path In Sixteen Steps

  • ArtworkSeveral pictures and raised texts on one chocolate, in lettering styles. The first picture becomes the logo everywhere.
  • Place ItDrag each piece on a flat face panel, with size and turn sliders. The 3D chocolate follows in real proportions.
  • Design StylePressed In, Raised, Printed Full Colour (with a white chocolate canvas option) or Gold Leaf, as picture cards.
  • Chocolate & SizeDark, milk, white and flavoured chocolates, one to three layers, ten fillings and two sizes.
  • Thickness, Rim & DepthThree thicknesses, four rim heights including a flat face, and three design depths, each drawn to scale.
  • Side & Base PatternPlain, fine ribs, wide ribs, diamond quilt, honeycomb, dots, fluting, wave or an uploaded pattern, recessed, flat or embossed, with a size slider.
  • Finish & ToppingsGlossy or satin, and ten toppings shown as real pieces on the 3D chocolate.
  • Wrapper, Packaging & NotesA wrapper template or a blank wrapper, the packaging, and a note to the maker.
  • QuoteThe price, volume pricing, a ready date and a design sheet.

The Chocolate Design Check

  • Every Upload CheckedMeasured at real size and rebuilt into what chocolate holds. Specks removed, thin lines thickened to your minimum, and shading flattened to one or two heights.
  • A Clear AnswerGreen, amber or red in plain words, with buttons for the way forward.
  • Your RulesThinnest line, smallest gap, edge margin, smallest picture, largest share of the face, smallest letters and smallest printed text.
  • Side By SideThe original and the chocolate version, on the step and on the design sheet.
  • Send It As It IsFor customers who would rather leave it to you.

AI Assist

  • A Second OpinionA first judge says whether chocolate can hold the picture, and a council joins when it is unsure or on request.
  • Redrawn For The MouldA fixable picture is redrawn as flat shapes, and the judges review the redraw.
  • The Customer DecidesThey are told before anything is sent, see the judges as Judge 1, Judge 2 and so on, and choose Use This, Keep Mine or Try Again.
  • Your Own KeysChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Grok and Perplexity, billed by each company straight to you.
  • Easy SetupGet Your Key buttons, numbered steps and Test The Key. The first engine that passes becomes the first judge on its own.

The Wrapper Designer

  • Fifty One TemplatesOr start from a blank wrapper.
  • Every FaceFront, back, both edges and both ends, on a 3D wrapped chocolate.
  • Your ToolsText in a library of fonts, stickers by category with tints, photos, logos, background patterns and swatches.
  • Hands OnMove, scale, turn and delete with a mouse or a finger.
  • Print ReadyA note when printed text is smaller than the printer’s minimum, and Download The Wrapper Print File.
  • My DesignsSave This Design to come back to it on any device.

Packaging

  • Classic SleevePaper to match the wrapper or a choice of papers, foil colours, and the logo printed on the foil or plain foil.
  • Luxury Gift BoxBox colours, a gold foil stamped or printed lid, ribbon colours, widths and finishes, a centre bow, corner bow, double bow or flat band, the logo along the ribbon, and the lid open or closed.
  • Fitted To The ChocolateA heart gets a heart shaped tray and a square box, the foil print fits inside the outline, and the lid lining shows the logo the right way round.
  • Clear PricesFor each packaging and each size, right on the cards.

Price, Quote & Order

  • Live PriceIn your currency as the customer designs, with a second currency shown.
  • Volume PricingThe price rows with this order’s band lit, and a meter that fills as the quantity climbs.
  • Ready DateWorked out from your lead time in business days.
  • Your ChargesA one time mould charge on custom chocolate, and a lead time for each path.
  • Shipping & TaxFrom a postal code or ZIP code, or pick up.
  • PO Number & NotesA PO number on every path for customers who order on account, and Anything Else on every order and quote.
  • Design SheetThe chocolate, the wrapper and the packaging, sent to the customer and to you.
  • Every Next StepRequest A Quote, Checkout, Add To Basket & Design Another, Save This Design, and a basket on every page.

We Design & Build

  • Ten Picture Led QuestionsWhat it is for, the look, the dream, pictures and inspiration, the chocolate, the packaging, how many and when, budget per chocolate, and anything else.
  • A Tidy RequestA Design Request with its own D number, the pictures ready to download and every answer written out.
  • Customer PreviewsYour team builds the design in the configurator and sends a link. The customer opens the chocolate, the artwork, the wrapper and the packaging exactly as built, ready to change and send back.

Checkout & Ways To Pay

  • Card PaymentsStripe Checkout on Stripe’s own secure page, or a demo payment page for trials.
  • Bank DebitsACH debit for US bank accounts and pre authorized debit for Canadian bank accounts through Stripe. The order is marked paid when the money arrives.
  • PayPal & InvoicePayPal, or pay by invoice.
  • Your ChoiceEach way to pay is a switch in the Manager, and visitors see only the ways you switch on.
  • Guest Or BusinessA guest checkout switch, and a business only rule that asks for a company name.
  • Customer AccountsSign in with a code sent by email, no password to remember. My Designs and order history follow the customer, with Remove Account.
  • No Card Data StoredCard numbers stay with the payment company.

What Your Customers See

Screens from the live demo. Click any one to zoom, then use the arrows or swipe to move through them.

How Would You Like To Start: three ways in, Ready Made, Fully Custom and We Design & Build.
How Would You Like To Start: three ways in, Ready Made, Fully Custom and We Design & Build.
Before We Start: a name and email once, so every quote and order starts with the customer’s details.
Before We Start: a name and email once, so every quote and order starts with the customer’s details.
Pick Your Chocolate: ready made designs, turning in 3D as the customer chooses.
Pick Your Chocolate: ready made designs, turning in 3D as the customer chooses.
Choose A Wrapper: wrappers made to go with the chosen design, or start from blank.
Choose A Wrapper: wrappers made to go with the chosen design, or start from blank.
Design The Wrapper: colours, patterns, photos, stickers and text on every side.
Design The Wrapper: colours, patterns, photos, stickers and text on every side.
Packaging: a luxury gift box with a ribbon and the customer’s logo.
Packaging: a luxury gift box with a ribbon and the customer’s logo.
Price & Order: volume pricing with this order’s band lit, the total and a ready date.
Price & Order: volume pricing with this order’s band lit, the total and a ready date.
Your Shape: a heart from the list of shapes, or the customer’s own artwork as the shape.
Your Shape: a heart from the list of shapes, or the customer’s own artwork as the shape.
Design Style: Pressed In, Raised, Printed or Gold Leaf, as picture cards.
Design Style: Pressed In, Raised, Printed or Gold Leaf, as picture cards.
Thickness: Slim, Standard or Chunky, drawn to scale in your millimetres.
Thickness: Slim, Standard or Chunky, drawn to scale in your millimetres.
Side & Base Pattern: recessed, flat or embossed, with a size slider.
Side & Base Pattern: recessed, flat or embossed, with a size slider.
Price & Quote: the mould charge, lead time and volume pricing for fully custom chocolate.
Price & Quote: the mould charge, lead time and volume pricing for fully custom chocolate.
We Design & Build: the customer tells you the dream and your designer builds a preview.
We Design & Build: the customer tells you the dream and your designer builds a preview.
What Is It For: ten picture led questions, one at a time.
What Is It For: ten picture led questions, one at a time.
Templates: finished wrappers in categories, ready to make their own.
Templates: finished wrappers in categories, ready to make their own.
Quote Basket: several designs in one quote or one checkout.
Quote Basket: several designs in one quote or one checkout.

For Your Team: Production Files

  • Every Design KeptEach quote and order keeps the full design, and Production Files opens from the record.
  • Wrapper Print FileA layered PDF in CMYK at real millimetres, with 3 mm bleed and a safe area, the dieline as a CutContour spot colour on its own layer, artwork at 380 dpi, and live text with the fonts embedded. The flat wrapper is on page one, with one page per panel.
  • Mould Maker’s FileThe chocolate outline, the inside of the rim and the relief shapes for each depth, at 1:1 in millimetres, as PDF and SVG that Illustrator saves as .ai.
  • Any UploadPictures in any format come in, and CMYK goes out.

For Your Team: Leads & Sales

  • Before We StartName, email, phone and company once a visitor picks a way to start, with a skip link you can switch on.
  • Details Carried ThroughThe quote form, the design request and checkout start with the details the visitor already gave.
  • Follow UpJourneys not finished in time are emailed to your sales address, and a quote or order closes the lead.
  • Leads ScreenEvery lead with its status, and CSV export.
  • Sales Team OptionSave a design as a customer preview, or send it as a quote under the team member’s name.

The Home Page

  • A Cinematic FilmThe title comes up at the moment you choose, with the three ways to start on screen from the first frame to the last.
  • Everything A Buyer Looks ForStart cards, templates, a before and after slider from artwork to chocolate, How It Works, pricing, corporate, occasions, products and a fact strip.
  • Room To DesignThe film and the home sections step aside while a customer designs, and come back with Start Over.

Compliance & Privacy

  • Profanity FilterOn raised text, wrapper text, names and design names, in the browser and on the server, with your own word list.
  • Privacy NoticeSwitched on or off.
  • Policy PagesPrivacy Policy and Purchase Terms written in the Manager, with a full default policy covering leads, designs, AI Assist, payments and production files.
  • Tidy AccountsInactive accounts removed after a set time.

What You Get In The Manager

  • One Manager For EverythingEvery setting in plain fields, guidance under every box, and Help on every screen.
  • Five RolesOwner, Manager, Staff, Sales and Demo. The Sales role sees Orders & Quotes and Leads only.
  • DashboardCounts, health checks, your licence and mail at a glance.
  • ProductsChocolates, Sizes and Ready Made designs, plus Custom: the chocolates, sizes and shapes you offer, charges and lead time, logo and mould artwork rules, thickness, rim and depth, the We Design & Build switch and cacao percentage requests.
  • DesignWrapper Assets, Wrapper Templates and Packaging, with a template maker that sends a design from the designer straight into your list.
  • Pricing & PoliciesPrice tables by quantity band for every path and size, lead times, the mould charge, deposits, terms, refund notes and order cut off times.
  • Orders & QuotesEvery order, quote and design request with its status and notes, replies with the proof and the preview link, and CSV export.
  • Customers & EmailAccounts on or off and a customer list with CSV export. Mail through your own server, with a test message and a mail log.
  • Your WordsEvery visitor facing line in Site & Copy, nothing hard coded.
  • Save & RestoreSave To Site with backups, and Download Settings and Load Settings File to move from test to live, in a signed settings file the site checks.
  • Owner’s GuideTen sections, from install to updates.

Inside The Manager

Every screen below is the real Manager from the demo. Click any one to zoom, then use the arrows or swipe to move through them.

Dashboard: counts, health checks and your licence at a glance.
Dashboard: counts, health checks and your licence at a glance.
Help: the owner’s guide, from install to updates.
Help: the owner’s guide, from install to updates.
Chocolates: each recipe with its cacao percentage, colour and surface.
Chocolates: each recipe with its cacao percentage, colour and surface.
Sizes: real millimetres and grams, and the 3D chocolate scales from your numbers.
Sizes: real millimetres and grams, and the 3D chocolate scales from your numbers.
Ready Made: upload your relief art and it is pressed into the chocolate in 3D.
Ready Made: upload your relief art and it is pressed into the chocolate in 3D.
Custom: the chocolates, sizes and mould shapes you offer, with the mould charge and lead time.
Custom: the chocolates, sizes and mould shapes you offer, with the mould charge and lead time.
Wrapper Assets: colour swatches, fonts and patterns for the wrapper designer.
Wrapper Assets: colour swatches, fonts and patterns for the wrapper designer.
Sticker Library: sticker categories and your own uploads.
Sticker Library: sticker categories and your own uploads.
Wrapper Templates: design a template in the designer and send it straight to this list.
Wrapper Templates: design a template in the designer and send it straight to this list.
Packaging: sleeves and gift boxes, each with its own description and price.
Packaging: sleeves and gift boxes, each with its own description and price.
Gift Box: box colours, lid finishes and ribbon colours.
Gift Box: box colours, lid finishes and ribbon colours.
Pricing: quantity bands for every path and size.
Pricing: quantity bands for every path and size.
Shipping & Tax: tax by province or state, and shipping zones by carton and weight.
Shipping & Tax: tax by province or state, and shipping zones by carton and weight.
Purchase Policies: minimum orders, rush service, cut off time, deposits and refunds.
Purchase Policies: minimum orders, rush service, cut off time, deposits and refunds.
Privacy: the privacy notice your visitors see, on or off.
Privacy: the privacy notice your visitors see, on or off.
AI Assist: the first judge, the council, and exactly what is sent.
AI Assist: the first judge, the council, and exactly what is sent.
Site & Copy: every headline, button and note in plain fields.
Site & Copy: every headline, button and note in plain fields.
Policy Pages: your Privacy Policy and Purchase Terms, written in the Manager.
Policy Pages: your Privacy Policy and Purchase Terms, written in the Manager.

Works With Your Website

  • StandaloneThe pages as they are, with your own menu and footer.
  • WordPressA plugin with a shortcode for each screen, and an admin page with Open The Manager and Create The Pages For Me.
  • ShopifyA theme section for Online Store 2.0 themes.
  • WixEmbed snippets for the Embed HTML element.
  • Squarespace, Webflow, Joomla, Drupal, Magento & Hand Built SitesA two line embed.
  • Your Theme, Your LookOn every platform the screens appear inside your site’s own theme and grow to fit.

Runs On Your Own Host

  • Your Server, Your DataThe configurator runs on your own PHP host, with no database to set up and no monthly service.
  • Guided InstallThe installer checks your server first, and a setup code written to your server means only someone with file access can create the owner.
  • Easy UpdatesAn Updates card in the Manager, with new releases delivered through your licence.
  • Ready To GoPictures, fonts and relief art come with it, and you add your own.

Safe Sign In & Security

  • Strong Sign InPasswords of ten characters or more stored as Argon2id hashes, two step codes by email, and a lockout after repeated failed attempts.
  • Secrets Kept SafePayment and mail keys are encrypted on your server.
  • Signed PaymentsA signed message confirms each card payment.
  • ReviewedAn outside security review was carried out, and every finding was fixed.

Licence & Support

  • One Licence Per BusinessCovers one business on one domain and its subdomains.
  • Easy ActivationYour key comes from Canadian Data Solutions and activates in the Manager. The site runs for 30 days from install while you set up.
  • Support By EmailThrough candat.com, with the owner’s guide built into the Manager.

Requirements

  • PHPVersion 8.1 or later.
  • HTTPSA secure address for your site.
  • Web ServerApache or LiteSpeed preferred.

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