retail design software
Retail store design software, rebuilt around AI
Interior design software for retailers and the designers who work for them: the concept phase of store design — layouts, looks, client approvals — compressed from weeks of CAD and 3D rendering into 30-second iterations. Built by the team behind 2,500+ delivered retail projects.
Everything the concept phase needs
Floor plan → photoreal render
Upload a plan or sketch; get a client-ready interior in ~30 seconds that keeps your real walls, openings and proportions.
AI store design generator
Describe the store — type, brand, mood — and generate photorealistic design directions to compare and refine.
Brand guidelines engine
Save a brand's palette, materials and fixture language once; every render inherits it. No off-brand concepts.
Consistent multi-view design
Lock an approved design and render every view of the same store — isometric for the landlord, eye-level for the client.
Mood boards & presentations
Multi-zone mood boards and client-ready presentation pages, built from the same project.
Editable retail Design Studio
Build a dimensioned store with your brand fixtures and materials, save camera views, and create renders from the scene.
Traditional pipeline vs. RetailDesign.ai
| CAD + render pipeline | RetailDesign.ai | |
|---|---|---|
| First photorealistic concept | Days (model, texture, render) | ~30 seconds |
| Skills required | CAD / 3D operator | None — describe it in words |
| Cost per concept round | $500–$3,000 outsourced | Included in a monthly plan |
| Respects the real floor plan | Yes (manually modelled) | Yes (AI-analysed automatically) |
| Brand consistency across renders | Manual discipline | Saved brand profile, applied every render |
| Construction documentation | Yes — its real job | No — hand off the approved concept to CAD |
Honest scope note: this is concept-phase software. Working drawings and construction documentation stay in CAD — you arrive there with an approved design instead of an expensive guess.
Who uses it
- Interior designers and architects — three concepts in the first client meeting, not the third week.
- Store owners and franchisees — see your brand inside your actual lease before signing a fit-out quote.
- Fit-out contractors — win pitches with photoreal proposals priced against the client's real plan.
- Retail brands — keep every new store on brand guidelines from the first render.
Frequently asked questions
- What is retail design software?
- Retail design software helps plan and visualise store interiors: layouts, fixtures, materials and lighting. Traditional tools (CAD, SketchUp, rendering engines) require specialist skills and days of work per concept; AI retail design software like RetailDesign.ai generates photorealistic store designs directly from a floor plan or photo in about 30 seconds.
- Do I need CAD skills to use RetailDesign.ai?
- No. Upload a floor plan PDF, a sketch, or a photo of the space — the AI analyses the layout and renders from it. There is no modelling step and nothing to install; it runs in the browser.
- Is there a free version?
- Yes. A free account includes 2 free design concepts rendered from your own floor plan, with no card needed. Paid plans add un-watermarked exports, higher resolution, design locking across views, and BOQ tools.
- How is this different from SketchUp or AutoCAD for retail?
- CAD tools are for working drawings; they need trained operators and produce visuals only after modelling, texturing and rendering. RetailDesign.ai covers the concept and client-approval phase: photorealistic direction in seconds, respecting your real plan, which you then hand to CAD for construction documentation.
- Can teams and agencies use it for client work?
- Yes — designers and fit-out firms use it to present concepts in the first meeting, keep every render on a client's brand guidelines, and share client review links for approvals. The Studio plan adds three team logins.