This illustrative smoothie maker is built around a front dial, a few preset buttons and a tall clear jar. Pick a finish and a jar size and the summary updates with your choices.
A dial is a deliberate choice. It suits people who blend first thing with wet hands, and staff on a busy counter who want one twist rather than a menu. Buyers here are weighing simplicity against features, and the jar size depends on who is drinking. One person making a breakfast smoothie needs the smaller jar. A café prepping several orders at once, or a family of four, will reach for the larger one.
Kitchen Configurator demo
Dial Smoothie Maker
- Product
- Dial Smoothie Maker
- Colour
- Matte Black
- Jar
- 1.4 L
Illustrative product. The design and images are generated examples, not a real model for sale.
What you can configure
The demo includes matte black, white, deep red and slate, with cream and brushed steel held back for production. You can choose a 1.4 L or 2 L jar, and the summary records it, though the image shows a single jar. Deep red is the finish most likely to be bought as a counter statement, so it is also the one where accurate colour matters most.
- Colour: Matte Black, White, Deep Red, Slate
- Jar: 1.4 L, 2 L
Why a configurator suits blenders
Blenders are bought in two quite different settings, and the same model often serves both. Home buyers choose by look and ease of cleaning. Juice bars and small cafés choose by how the machine copes with a queue, and they often want spare jars so nut and dairy recipes stay apart. A configurator can serve both groups from one product page.
Spare jars and lids sit on top of the 12 base variants. In a café, jars are close to a consumable, and they must suit the base. A configurator that sells the base and matching jars together avoids orders where spares turn out to be the wrong size, and it gives the brand a reason to keep that café buying direct.
Colour carries more weight than usual for hospitality buyers. A juice bar with a red brand might want every blender on the counter in deep red, visible to the queue. Seeing that finish accurately, and ordering several units on one quote, is a reason to buy from the brand rather than from a marketplace listing with a single stock photo.
How a production version would be built
I would photograph or render both jars on every base rather than layering them, because a clear jar picks up reflections from the colour beneath it. That gives 12 images, each lit identically so the jar looks the same apart from its size. The brand supplies variant codes, jar compatibility, assembled heights and any packs of spare jars. Home orders can go to the basket; hospitality orders with quantities can go to a quote form and into a CRM. It is the same image-based approach as the configurator from my MMU Knowledge Transfer Partnership work.
Build sheet for this range
- Colours in the full range: 6 (4 shown in this demo)
- Jar choices: 2
- Combinations to support: 6 × 2 = 12
- Images for one photograph per combination at 3 angles: 36
- Images if jar sizes can be shown as separate layers, at 3 angles: 24
- Data each of the 12 combinations needs: a SKU or variant ID, price, stock or lead time, and any dimensions or specification that change
Questions about blender configurators
Can cafés order spare jars that match the base they bought?
Yes. Spare jars can be offered as an extra that only shows sizes compatible with the chosen base. A café can add two spare jars in one step, and the quote or basket lists them as separate lines. That suits kitchens keeping separate jars for allergen-free recipes.
Is it worth showing the dial and preset buttons close up?
It is, because the controls are the selling point. A detail image of the dial, taken from the angle of someone standing at the counter, makes the simplicity obvious. That view changes little between finishes, so a single close-up per finish is enough for most ranges.
Can we show the blender with a smoothie in the jar without the colour looking wrong?
Yes, though I would keep the hero images with an empty jar so the finish reads accurately. A second image with a filled jar shows the machine in use. Brightly coloured contents throw reflections onto the base, so they are best kept away from the swatch images buyers use to compare finishes.
Can a café order several blenders in the same finish at once?
It can. A quantity field and a quote route let a café specify, for example, four deep red bases with eight jars, and receive one quote. If stock of a finish is limited, the configurator can show availability and lead time before the buyer commits to a fit-out date.
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A configurator for your blenders
This demo uses an illustrative product. If you sell blenders, I can build the same experience around your own range, photography and ordering process, connected to Shopify, WooCommerce or a quote workflow. I reply to enquiries within two UK working days.