Show the family their stone in 3D before it's cut.
The 3D designer inside MonuDesk. Design with the family at the table, or let families start on your website.
At the table: stop describing the stone. Show it.
A sketch asks the family to imagine the stone. MonuStudio shows it: shape, granite and lettering, turning with them at the table.
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They decide at the table.
When a family can see the stone, there's less to take home and think over.
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No surprises at the cemetery.
What they approved is what you cut, because they saw it before it went to the shop.
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You look like the expert in the room.
A 3D stone on your screen says more about your shop than a price sheet.
On showing families the design in colour:
“We've had design software for a long time, but it was, you know, just black and white. And then we switched, and it made a huge difference in our closing rate for people.”
On your website: families start the design, you get the order.
Put MonuStudio on your website. Families design a stone at home, and the request lands on your board as a quote, with the design and their phone number.
Ask us about adding MonuStudio to your website.
- A lead that's already half a quote.
- You know the shape, the granite and the words before you pick up the phone.
- You know where it came from.
- Website requests are tagged, so you can see what your website brings in.
- Call them while they're still deciding.
- The faster you call, the more of these you close. See the Harvard numbers below.
- Your phone buzzes the second it comes in.
- The MonuDesk iPhone app tells you the moment a family sends a design. Nobody beats that.
7×
Businesses that contacted a new inquiry within an hour were nearly 7 times as likely to reach the decision maker as those that waited even one hour longer, and more than 60 times as likely as those that waited a day.
Harvard Business Review, “The Short Life of Online Sales Leads”, March 2011
What MonuStudio does today
- Uprights, markers, slants and benches
- 40+ granite colors
- Drag-and-drop lettering
- PNG, PDF, DXF and PLT export
- Starts from the quote you already built
What dealers told us about designing stones
Black-and-white drawings, redraws nobody pays for, and families who'd rather design at midnight.
On families designing online:
“A lot of them don't want to come in, you know. They wake up at midnight and decide they want to order a monument.”
Monument dealerTennessee 
On the designer on his website:
“It's basically a lead generator. People who visit our site design it, and I get an email. I can view the design, so I've already got a head start on what they're looking for and know exactly what the price is.”
Jarred BoatwrightOwner, Kurtz Monument Company, Pennsylvania On today's design software:
“I could put it in the color of the monument, so they have a better idea versus a black and white drawing. That's what a lot of these other programs are, you know, black and white CAD drawings.”
Monument dealerMassachusetts On today's design software:
“We do color 3D renderings, and it's kind of a nightmare on our end.”
Monument dealerIndiana On redraws:
“The constant changes and revisions, that's a nightmare, because it's like you're doing half the order all over again. And you know, nobody wants to pay for it.”
Monument dealerNew York 
On the design service she pays for:
“With Design Mart, if there's something that's not already in their system, they charge me $400, even though I pay a monthly subscription.”
Madeline MinterManager, Rome Monument, Georgia “It would be nice to sit there with a customer, show them a 3D version of it, and then export it to PLT.”
Monument dealerIowa 
After seeing MonuStudio:
“The program I use is black and white, 2D, nothing cool, no frills. So to be able to find something that you can design on, and the customer loves it, and they can be like, that's perfect, sign off? That'd be sweet.”
Timothy EdsonOwner, Green Valley Memorials, Vermont After seeing MonuStudio:
“Yours is a 10 compared to Composer, because ours is black and white 2D. You can't see any of the detail.”
Madeline MinterManager, Rome Monument, Georgia 
After seeing MonuStudio:
“Being able to take my DXF and upload it to this to make a 3D model, like, that would be awesome. That's something I would 100% use for sure.”
Daniel BorrelliOwner, Seccombe Brothers Memorials, Connecticut
Dealers told us they pay Design Mart $75 to $80 a month, and $400 for a design that isn't in its library.
Try MonuDesk for 7 days.
Put your next orders in it and see what your week looks like.