Rugs & textiles CPQ: size, colorway, pile, quoted.

Rugs and home textiles CPQ is configure-price-quote for custom colorways, sizes, pile construction and MOQs quoted per piece or per square foot. An agent quotes a hand-tufted rug in 8×10 with a custom colorway, 20 pieces. The size prices per square foot or per piece from your rules: one price for 8×10 in that construction, another for 9×12. Custom colorway shows as a swatch first. Construction and pile type apply as your rules set them. MOQ breaks price per piece or with a quantity discount. Each is a rule applied in plain language: “Kashan 8×10, custom colorway, 20 pieces, FOB Mundra.” Poly9 AI reads those rules, configures the piece, and builds the quote the same visit.

Generic CPQ platforms handle catalog items with fixed SKUs and ERP order entry well. Custom rugs and home textiles are the opposite: every piece configures from the buyer’s request for size, colorway, construction and quantity. A rug has pricing variables for the construction method, pile type, size, custom colorway sampling, MOQ, and FOB terms. Poly9 AI holds each as a cost recipe: size by construction from your rules, colorway shown first, MOQ breaks applied, lead time and FOB port from your terms.

Size pricing is how textile mills scale custom orders. An 8×10 in hand-tufted wool prices one rate per square foot. A 9×12 in the same construction prices at its own rate. A rug maker quotes many size and construction combinations, and the recipe maps every size to every construction. The spreadsheet models this as a lookup table. The table works until a new construction enters or the recipe was not updated for a new size. Poly9 AI applies the size rule and reads the price from your recipe for that size and construction. The quote shows every rule it applied.

Colorway visualization is where textile quoting gets tactile. The buyer needs to see the wool, pile or weave before the price. Poly9 AI shows the swatch first, labeled as a render, so the buyer sees the material. Sampling still happens for approved custom colorways; the sampling fee is a line on the quote. Ask it: “Kashan 8×10, custom colorway, 20 pieces.” Poly9 AI renders the swatch, applies your size and construction rules, adds the sampling fee, and builds the quote. When a construction has no rule for that size, that line returns price on request and the rest of the quote still prices.

Price on request is the line between an honest quote and a guessed one. A buyer asks for a construction not yet in the recipe for that size. A fixed catalog price list or spreadsheet has no row for it, so the estimator fills the gap by hand, and the fill is often a guess that costs the order when the workshop confirms the real construction cost. Poly9 AI returns price on request for that line, drafts the internal request for the team with the conversation attached, and never guesses. The buyer gets a partial quote the same visit, and sees the updated total on the same link once the construction cost is confirmed.

Construction and pile pricing is how textile pricing stays modular. Fiber choice applies a multiplier to the base construction price. In the Poly9 AI sample rug catalog, wool and silk is +65% and jute is −30% against 100% wool. Poly9 AI reads those fiber rules from your cost book, applies them to the construction, and builds the quote line by line.

Textile configurators are built for pattern design: exact repeat calculations, CAD-level weave structures, and rendered pattern views. That is their strength, and Poly9 AI does not try to replace them. The configurator designs the pattern for the sample presentation. Poly9 AI is the sales layer: it takes the size, colorway, construction and quantity from the design or from the buyer’s request, prices them from the mill’s rules, and sends the quote the buyer approves. A textile mill or exporter can run both: the configurator for pattern design, Poly9 AI for the conversation and the certified quote.

Learning matters in textiles because every mill’s construction methods, pile types, and MOQ pricing differ. Poly9 AI learns from every question, quote and collection which colorways and constructions sell together and which constructions are missing rules for new sizes. The cost recipes stay yours; the memory layer shows what to price next.

Pricing models follow seat count or plan. Per-seat CPQ or textile platform licenses cost the same whether the seat quotes twice a week or forty times. Spreadsheets come with office software but live in the estimator’s files and break when the size matrix updates or that person is out. Poly9 AI is a monthly plan with AI credits: Booth is $99 a month with 200 credits, Factory is $299 a month with 1,500 credits, and Enterprise is custom. Everyone on the team is included.

Catalog load time matters for textile mills and exporters rolling out to agents and showrooms. You can start the same day from the sample rug catalog, add one size rule and one construction recipe, and send the first certified quote in that session. Big textile lines get a white-glove import from us. A new construction or pile type is one recipe addition, and the team quotes from it on their next ask.

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