The illustrative lamp here holds its arm in place with coiled springs above a heavy round cast base. Set a colour, then the plug for the market it is going to, and the exact version is recorded.
Spring-balanced lamps are bought for their movement as much as their look. The arm should stay where it is put, the base should not tip, and the colour should sit well in a working room. The plug choice looks minor. It tells the seller which market the lamp is going to, and that affects far more than the plug on the end of the cable.
Lighting Configurator demo
Balanced Floor Lamp
- Product
- Balanced Floor Lamp
- Colour
- Black
- Plug
- UK
Illustrative product. The design and images are generated examples, not a real model for sale.
What you can configure
Black, warm white, bottle green and dove grey are available to try. Brick red and navy complete the range. The arm is set to the same angle in every image, so the comparison is purely about colour. Plug type, UK, EU or US, is chosen separately and appears in the summary. It leaves the image alone, and it does not need to change it: the important difference is electrical, not visual.
- Colour: Black, Warm White, Bottle Green, Dove Grey
- Plug: UK, EU, US
Why a configurator suits floor lamps
Eighteen variants come from six colours and three plugs, but they are not equal. A UK version needs a fused plug and UK marking. An EU version needs a different plug and CE marking. A US version may need a different lamp holder, cable and certification altogether. Treating plug as a dropdown on one SKU hides that, and leads to the wrong stock being picked.
A configurator that records plug type as a structured option keeps each market's version separate in the order, the stock count and the invoice. It can also set the plug automatically from the shopper's country, so a buyer in Germany never sees a UK plug as the default. That small default prevents one of the most common avoidable returns for brands shipping abroad.
For a brand selling direct across several markets, the configurator also shows where demand comes from. If US orders lean towards bottle green while UK buyers favour black, production and stock can follow. That is far easier to see when every order arrives with colour and market recorded cleanly.
How a production version would be built
Image-based works well: six colour images from a fixed angle, plus a close-up of each plug type for reassurance. The real work is in the data. Each colour and plug combination needs its own SKU, stock count and, where relevant, a certification note. The brand supplies those codes, which combinations are sold in which markets, and shipping rules. The configurator reads the shopper's market and preselects the plug. Product data for configurators covers how that mapping is usually set up.
Build sheet for this range
- Colours in the full range: 6 (4 shown in this demo)
- Plug choices: 3
- Combinations to support: 6 × 3 = 18
- Images for one photograph per combination at 3 angles: 54
- Images if plug types can be shown as separate layers, at 3 angles: 27
- Data each of the 18 combinations needs: a SKU or variant ID, price, stock or lead time, and any dimensions or specification that change
Questions about floor lamp configurators
Can the configurator choose the plug type from the customer's country?
Yes. It can read the shop's market or the delivery country and preselect the matching plug. Buyers can still change it if the lamp is going somewhere else, but the default will be right for most orders. That alone removes a common source of returns for brands selling abroad.
Do UK, EU and US versions need separate stock and SKUs?
Usually, yes. They often differ in more than the plug, including cable, lamp holder and certification marking. Each combination should have its own SKU and stock count, and the configurator should only offer the plug types you actually hold for each colour.
Can we stop US versions being ordered in colours we do not certify?
Yes. Availability rules sit in the product data, so a colour can be offered with UK and EU plugs but not US. The configurator hides or greys out combinations that are not sold, and can explain why if you want it to.
Can the configurator show prices in each market's currency?
Yes, when it runs on a platform with multi-currency support, such as Shopify Markets. The configurator reads the price set for the shopper's market, so a buyer in the US sees a US price for the US version. Prices stay in your product data rather than being converted on the fly.
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