plansoft
plansoft — today part of 4PACE — is a German CPQ (configure-price-quote) and product-configurator specialist headquartered in Saarbrücken with more than 30 years of vertical experience. The product family centres on 3PQ CONFIGURATION, a cloud-based configuration platform that makes complex industrial products rule-driven and configurable. Surrounding modules cover 3PQ COMMERCE for B2B commerce, easyKAT for catalogue management and CADClick for CAD-and-BIM publishing. For DACH (Germany, Austria, Switzerland) Mid-Market manufacturers — the broad mid-market segment — with variant-rich, configurable products, plansoft is one of the most defensible specialist CPQ vendors.
3PQ CONFIGURATION
3PQ CONFIGURATION is a cloud configuration platform built around a powerful rule-and-constraint system. The engine handles technical plausibility checks, dependencies between configurable options, calculation logic and complex pricing, including discount schemes. Configurators can be embedded in the customer's own web environment, in B2B portals or in the dealer-channel front end. The platform is rule-driven rather than coded, so product managers maintain configuration logic without developer dependency.
Surrounding modules
3PQ COMMERCE turns configuration outputs into purchasable B2B orders with quote-cart, approval workflows and order submission to the ERP. easyKAT manages product catalogues that feed both the configurator and the e-commerce front-end with consistent data. CADClick automates the publication of CAD models and BIM data — meaningful for machinery, fittings and furniture industries where customers expect downloadable CAD-ready content alongside the product configurator. The modules interoperate as a suite, which is the main reason customers shortlist plansoft over single-purpose CPQ tools.
Target audience and verticals
Typical plansoft customers are Mid-Market and large industrial manufacturers with variant-rich, configurable products. Focus verticals are machinery and plant engineering, electrical engineering, drive technology, furniture and fittings industry, fastening technology, door and window products. The product fit is strongest where the customer has hundreds or thousands of product variants and the alternative to a real CPQ is a sprawling spreadsheet-and-PDF process that no longer scales.
Cloud architecture
3PQ CONFIGURATION is delivered as a cloud platform: the system runs in the browser without local installation and is operated by the vendor in European data centres. Users access through modern web front-ends with native mobile support. The platform integrates with the customer's ERP — SAP, Microsoft Dynamics, Sage, proAlpha and others — through standard interfaces for order submission, master data and pricing. For DACH customers the European hosting and DSGVO-compliant data processing (DSGVO being the German implementation of GDPR) are standard.
Pricing and selection
4PACE does not publish list prices for plansoft / 3PQ solutions. Licensing is project-specific and depends on number of users, complexity of the product structure, module selection (Configurator, Commerce, easyKAT, CADClick), deployment model and customisation depth. In CPQ-and-configurator selections, plansoft competes with international platforms like Tacton, Configit and Camos, plus the configurator modules embedded in larger ERPs. The differentiators are the long-tenured CPQ experience, the vertical depth in machinery, drive technology and furniture/fittings, and the tight integration of configurator, B2B commerce, CAD/BIM publishing and catalogue management.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Is plansoft an ERP system?
No. plansoft is a specialist CPQ and product-configurator platform. It sits next to the ERP rather than replacing it: the configurator captures customer-specific product configurations, validates them and submits the resulting order to the ERP.
What is the relationship to 4PACE?
plansoft is part of 4PACE following a corporate consolidation. The 3PQ product family — CONFIGURATION, COMMERCE, easyKAT and CADClick — is the current offering under the 4PACE umbrella, with the plansoft heritage providing the long-running CPQ experience.
Which industries fit plansoft best?
Machinery and plant engineering, electrical engineering, drive technology, furniture and fittings, fastening technology, door and window products — the variant-rich industrial verticals where CAD publication and configurator depth matter together.
How does plansoft integrate with the ERP?
Through standard interfaces for order submission, master data and pricing. Integrations exist for SAP, Microsoft Dynamics, Sage, proAlpha and other Mittelstand ERPs. Order data flows from the configurator to the ERP; pricing, customer and catalogue master data flow the other way. For DACH customers, the integration path also covers ERP-resident DATEV finance handling, since plansoft itself is not a finance system.
Can plansoft also publish CAD models to customers?
Yes. The CADClick module automates publication of CAD models and BIM data alongside the product configurator, which is particularly important for machinery, fittings and furniture industries where customers expect to download CAD-ready content matching the configured product.