# Imagine Kit Homes

> Instant pricing on 700+ kit home plans, then order tracking through every stage of the build

- URL: https://envisageapps.com.au/blog/portfolio-item/imagine-kit-homes/
- Type: caseStudy
- Published: 2023-09-29

**Native app | Home builder.**

**Outcome:** A quote that used to take a phone call and a wait now takes about five minutes, in the buyer's own hands, across a catalogue of more than 700 plans.

**Project inclusions:** Native iOS and Android app, quoting engine, stage ordering, document approvals, in-app messaging, App Store and Google Play release.

## Home Builder App Development Australia — Imagine Kit Homes Case Study

### Putting the quote in the buyer's pocket

[Imagine Kit Homes](https://imaginekithomes.com.au/) sells kit homes across Australia. The decision to build one is long, and most of it happens before a customer ever speaks to a salesperson. The app compresses that stretch: browse the range, generate a real customised quote, and carry it through to ordering and delivery without leaving the phone.

Quotes raised on the website flow automatically into the customer's account in the app, so the two channels are one pipeline rather than two.

### The Product

The app is a companion to a build rather than a brochure. Early on it answers *what would this cost*. Later it answers *where is my order*, with each stage of the kit — frames, roofing, windows, cladding, plasterboard, internals — carrying its own lead time against the order date. Approvals and messages to the Imagine Kit Homes team sit in the same place, so a build is not reconstructed from an email thread.

### Key Features

- A growing catalogue of 700+ plans, with an instant customised quote in about five minutes
- Website quotes synced automatically into the customer's app account
- One-tap ordering for each kit stage
- Delivery schedule with per-stage lead times
- Document submission and approvals in-app
- Direct messaging to the Imagine Kit Homes team for status updates

### Shipped

The [Imagine Kit Homes app](https://apps.apple.com/au/app/imagine-kit-homes/id1641217943) is live in the Apple App Store and on [Google Play](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=au.com.imaginekithomes.ikh_app), built as a [native app](/app-developers-brisbane/) on both platforms.

Building and construction products come with gates that are easy to miss until they bite — pricing accuracy that customers will hold you to, document retention, and the consumer-law weight that attaches to a quote. A [Launch Gate Audit](/launch-gate-audit/) is built to surface those before release.

More [property and construction work](/work/property-construction/): [Studio M](/blog/portfolio-item/studiom-metricon-homes/) for the same configurator problem in a showroom, [Stroud Pulse](/blog/portfolio-item/stroud-homes-app/) for the margin side of a franchise build, and [SwapCerts](/blog/portfolio-item/app-construction-industry-trades/) for site compliance. More work of this kind in the [portfolio](/case-studies-app-development/).

### Selling something complex and configurable?

**Talk to a team that has taken a 700-item catalogue and made it quotable in five minutes.**