Fitted wardrobe glossary: the terms in a wardrobe configurator and a quote

Closetforge is a white-label 3D wardrobe configurator and quoting software for fitted-wardrobe makers. This glossary explains the words a carpenter and a customer meet in the configurator, in a quote and in the workshop's documents, each in a sentence or three, with a link to the page that says more. Where the trade uses two words for the same thing, both are given.

The wardrobe

Carcass

The box of a wardrobe: its sides, top, bottom and back, without the doors. In Closetforge the carcass is cut from the interior decor, and the doors and drawer fronts from the exterior decor.

Section

One vertical part of a wardrobe between two dividers, also called a bay. Each section has its own interior, and on some designs its own doors.

Plinth

The board across the bottom front of a wardrobe that stands on the floor, hiding the gap under the carcass. In Closetforge the plinth is the front board only, in the same decor as the doors.

Back panel

The panel that closes the back of the carcass, often thin hardboard set in a groove. The workshop chooses the back board; the customer never has to.

Top box

A smaller unit that stands on top of a wardrobe to reach a high ceiling, so a tall wardrobe is made of two pieces that are easier to carry and fit.

Wall-hung unit

A unit fixed to the wall with nothing standing on the floor, hung at a height or lined up with the top of the wardrobe beside it.

Corner unit

An L-shaped carcass that turns a corner, with an angled front across it. A good corner is sized from the width of its opening, as the walk-in and corner guide explains.

Walk-in

A room lined with wardrobes rather than one wardrobe against a wall. In the configurator it is several units arranged on a room plan, in a row, an L, a U or on two facing walls.

Side shelf unit

An open shelf unit at the end of a wardrobe run, with shelves you can reach from the side and a rounded open corner.

Doors and fronts

Overlay and inset fronts

An overlay front sits in front of the carcass and covers its edges. An inset front sits inside the opening, flush with the carcass edges, which takes more precise fitting.

Reveal

The small gap left between two fronts, or between a front and the carcass, so doors and drawers can open without rubbing.

Bypass sliding door

A sliding door whose leaves run on two tracks and pass each other, so part of the wardrobe is always behind a leaf. The sliding door guide explains which bays the leaves can uncover.

Plate

One horizontal panel of a divided sliding leaf. Each plate can be the main decor, the accent decor, a mirror or glass.

Shared front

One set of sliding leaves that runs across several wardrobes in a room, on its own pair of tracks.

Soft-close

A damper that slows a door or drawer for the last part of its travel so it closes gently. Hinges, drawer runners and sliding leaves each have their own version.

Push to open

A latch that opens a door or drawer when you press the front, so it needs no handle.

Inside the wardrobe

Hanging rail

The rail clothes hang from. It can be a fixed rod, a pull-out rail in a deep narrow section, or a lift rail.

Lift rail

A hanging rail on arms that pulls down to the user, so clothes hung high in a tall wardrobe can be reached. It is also called a pull-down rail.

Pull-out

Anything that slides out of the wardrobe on runners, such as a pull-out hanging rail or a pull-out shelf, which is a shallow tray rather than a full drawer.

LED strip

A strip of lights fitted inside a section so the inside of the wardrobe is lit.

Drawer box

The box behind a drawer front. It can be made of board in the workshop or bought as a metal drawer system.

Boards and the workshop

Decor

The surface of a board: its colour, pattern or wood grain. A wardrobe can use three decors: the fronts, the body and an accent.

Decor code

The supplier's code that identifies a decor. Closetforge matches a board to the edge band with the same decor code.

Edge band

The strip glued over the cut edge of a board. Visible edges take a matching band; hidden edges may take a cheaper one or none, as the pricing guide explains.

Cut list

The list of every panel in a design, with its size, thickness, decor and edges. Closetforge derives it from the customer's design, see cut list and board nesting.

Nesting and sheet layout

Arranging the panels on whole sheets of board so they can be cut with the least waste. The sheet layout is the drawing of where each panel sits, and it decides how many sheets are bought.

BOM

The bill of materials: every hinge, runner, rail, handle and fitting a job needs, with quantities. Closetforge prints it in the workshop's PDF beside the cut list.

Prices and quotes

Markup and margin

A markup is a percentage added to cost; a margin is a percentage of the selling price, so the same price can be described both ways. The pricing guide works through the difference.

VAT inclusive

A price that already includes VAT, the way homeowners in the UK usually expect to see it. A business customer is often shown the price before VAT, with VAT added on top.

Deposit

The part of the price paid when the order is placed, sometimes called an advance or, in Slovenia, an avans. The workshop sets the deposit in its quote terms.

Measurement visit

The visit to measure the room before the final price. A workshop can make it free within a distance, charge for it, or credit the fee against the deposit if the customer orders.

Round trip

The full distance travelled to the customer and back. Delivery and travel on a Closetforge quote are charged for the round trip, not the one-way distance.

Approval

The workshop's check of a quote before the customer receives it. On Closetforge a quote waits for that check by default, unless the workshop switches on automatic sending, see how it works.

Revision

A changed version of a quote that was already sent. The sent version stays exactly as the customer received it, and the new one reaches them only when the workshop sends the revision.

On the website

Wardrobe configurator

A tool on a website where a customer designs a wardrobe, sees it in 3D and asks for a price. See the wardrobe configurator page.

Template

A finished wardrobe design with its own page on the workshop's site, which a customer can open and change instead of starting from a blank wall. The published templates together make the workshop's catalogue.

Package

Everything a customer designs for one room: the wardrobes, how they stand in the room, the conversation with the AI assistant and the request for a quote.

Share link

A link to a customer's design that they can send to someone else. A view link shows the design; an edit link lets the other person change it too.

OTP

A one-time password: the code sent by SMS when a customer asks for a quote, which confirms the phone number is theirs.

White-label

Software that runs under the workshop's own name, domain, logo and colours. See white-label.

Where to go next

See the words in use by designing a wardrobe in the live demo, or book a call to talk through your own workshop.