Tentest: a 3D pop-up tent configurator with a design canvas on every panel

Tentest Trade OÜ has made and supplied pop-up tents, parasols, awnings and PVC halls since 2002, and describes itself as the largest company doing so in Estonia. Its staff assemble and check the products at its base in Peetri, on the edge of Tallinn, and it is part of Scandipro Group, which brings companies and resellers in Estonia, Finland, Sweden and Latvia together under the Scandipro brand. Tentest also prints its tents: a customer’s logo, colours and message, by thermal transfer for smaller logos and text, or digitally across the whole fabric, from the roof to the walls.

In 2025, Tentest added a pop-up tent configurator to tentest.ee, where buyers design that printed tent themselves in 3D and send it for a quote. Tentest’s own team built the whole thing in Simplio3D: the tents in six sizes, the rules between their options, a design canvas with image upload on every printable panel, an augmented reality view and the quote request form. It went onto the website with no integration at all.

The solution: a pop-up tent configurator in six steps

The configurator has its own page on tentest.ee, under a four-step guide: design the tent, send the design, ask Tentest if anything is unclear, and watch the video guide. Tentest’s page about printed advertising tents links to it too. The configurator is in Estonian, and six steps run along the top of the 3D view: Telk (tent), Seinad (walls), Katus (roof), Katuse servad (roof edges), Reklaamlipp (advertising flag) and Poolsein (half wall). A short note above the options explains each step.

The first step sets up the tent. A drop-down offers six sizes, from 3 × 3 m to 4 × 8 m, and the 3D model changes with it. Picture choices add or remove a sales counter, a half wall and an advertising flag, and the model shows or hides each one as it is chosen. Eight swatches cover blue, green, yellow, orange, grey, white, black and red, and a colour wheel opens a picker for any other colour, down to its hex code.

The next five steps are about print. Each printable part of the tent has its own Kujunda siin (design here) button: the left, right and back walls, inside and out; the four sides of the roof; the four roof edges, which the configurator’s note calls a popular place for a logo or a slogan; the flag; and the half wall.

A design canvas on every panel, with image upload

Every Kujunda siin button opens the same editor, Customize canvas, laid out to the shape of its panel: a long strip for a roof edge, a large rectangle for a wall. Tentest added one of these canvases to each printable part of the tent, so a single tent has up to sixteen of them.

• Upload. The buyer adds an image from their own computer, usually a logo, and places it on the panel.
• Text. Free text in a choice of fonts, with bold, italic, underline and letter spacing.
• Shapes and colour. Shapes to build a design from, coloured with the same full colour picker.
• Arranging. Layers, bring to front and send to back, horizontal and vertical flips, duplicate, delete and reset position, with zoom and pan for the detail.

Pressing OK puts the design on the tent in 3D. The configuration summary then lists every panel that has a design as Added, so the buyer can check that nothing is missing before sending it.

Conditional logic that shows and hides options

Conditional logic keeps the configurator to what Tentest makes. The tent size decides which options appear:

• the sales counter appears only for the 3 × 3 m tent;
• the half wall appears for the 3 × 3 m tent (a 3 m half wall) and the 4 × 4 m tent (a 4 m one), and only then has a design of its own;
• every size has its own advertising flag, and its own walls, roof sides and roof edges to design.

Choose another size and the options that do not fit it are hidden, while the panels to design switch to those of the new size. Go back to 3 × 3 m and the counter and half wall return. The yes-or-no choices work on the model as well: switching off the counter, the half wall or the flag hides that part of the tent in 3D.

Augmented reality: the tent in its real surroundings

A toolbar beside the 3D view holds the viewing tools: reset the camera, start over, full screen, the configuration summary, a screenshot, a share link and AR. On a computer, the AR button shows a QR code. Scanned with a phone, it opens the configured tent in augmented reality, so the buyer can see it in place before sending the design. More on AR and sharing: the 3D product viewer.

A quote request instead of a shopping cart

Tentest’s configurator shows no prices and has no checkout. Every printed tent is checked by Tentest’s designers before it is priced, so the last step is a request. Saada kujundus (send the design) opens a short form, Submit Your Information, which asks for the company and an email address, with a phone number and additional information as options. The request reaches Tentest with the tent’s configuration and its design, and Tentest’s designers check it and send a price quote. If anything is unclear, the page invites buyers to write, call or visit the showroom.

That choice also kept the build simple. There is no shop to connect and no plugin to install: the configurator is embedded in a WordPress page on tentest.ee, and the English version of the page shows the same configurator.

Why it worked: affordable, supported and in Tentest’s hands

• Affordable. Simplio3D is sold as monthly plans with prices published on the pricing page, so a configurator is a subscription rather than a development project. Tentest set this one up itself, with no developer to hire and no integration to pay for.
• Technical support when it was needed. Tentest’s team did the setup, and Simplio3D’s support team answered its technical questions along the way. Every customer can reach the same help through the help centre.
• No code. The tents, the options and their rules, the design canvases and the quote form were all set up in the Simplio3D dashboard, and one embed put the result on tentest.ee.
• Changes stay in-house. A new size, colour or printable panel is a change Tentest’s own team can make, without waiting for anyone else.

What a project like this would add today

None of this section is part of the Tentest configurator described above, which runs on the earlier version of Simplio3D. For a tent maker starting now:

• Design Canvas and Image Upload as option blocks. In the current platform, the design canvas and customer image upload are two of the sixteen option blocks, alongside Text Input with a choice of fonts and the Pattern Designer for repeating prints, so each printable panel is one block to add.
• AR that carries the configuration. On a computer, the AR QR code bakes the current configuration into a snapshot and hands it to a phone for 24 hours. Phones open it in AR Quick Look on iOS or Scene Viewer on Android, with no app to install.
• A new range from a description. A first configurator for another range, such as parasols or awnings, can be generated from a written description, then finished by hand.
• Checking the rules. The AI assistant can audit option coverage and conditional logic, for instance that each of the six sizes has its own walls, roof sides, roof edges and flag, and propose repairs where a rule is missing.
• Quote requests and an AI agent. An AI client such as Claude, connected to the workspace over MCP with a scoped connection, can read incoming quote requests and summarise them for the team. Anything an agent reads is sent to the user’s AI provider, including the customer details in a request, and changes to prices only ever arrive as pending changes that a person applies.