Decato vs Wayfair Room Planner when a client signs it off
The Wayfair Room Planner does more than people expect. It takes your real wall, door and window dimensions, builds an interactive 3D room, lets you drag pieces around, exports as an image or PDF, and drops what you choose straight into the cart. All of it free, and all of it from Wayfair.
Decato
Sourced without regard to which retailer stocked it — chosen on size, price and availability.
A free 3D room planner attached to a shop. You give it the room’s walls, doors and windows, drag Wayfair products into the space, view it from any angle, export the result as an image or a PDF, and add what you picked to the cart in the same session.
A tool that does not assume the shop. From a floor plan it matches in-stock products — IKEA as well as Wayfair today, with more retailers planned — on size, style, price and availability, drops what will not physically fit, and produces a priced spec for someone else to approve.
If you are buying from Wayfair, their planner is free, competent and one click from checkout. If you are choosing between retailers, holding a budget across the whole room, or handing a client a document to sign off, a shop’s planner is not built to do any of that.
What each one does
Free to use
Decato plans free; sourcing is paid
Takes real wall and door dimensions
Sources beyond its own catalogue
IKEA and Wayfair today, more planned
Refuses a piece that will not fit
Priced spec for a client to approve
Adds straight to a cart
Holds a whole-room budget
A cart totals what is in it
Exports the plan as an image or PDF
Interactive 3D view of the room
Decato renders rather than orbits
Runs in a browser
Decato is a Mac app
Neither tool wins everywhere
Wayfair Room Planner does things Decato cannot do at all. Knowing exactly where the line falls is more useful than being told one tool is better.
- Not tied to one shop: IKEA sits alongside Wayfair today, and more retailers are planned
- Furniture that will not clear a door swing is refused rather than left for you to notice
- The output is a document for approval, which a cart is not
- A whole-room budget is visible while there is still time to change the answer
- Free, with no account tier or subscription to think about
- One click from a laid-out room to a filled cart — Decato has no checkout at all
- Exports the plan as an image or PDF without asking for anything
- Runs in a browser, on a shop you and your client already know
- Delivery, returns and service all sit with the same retailer
If you move across
The planner keeps working for anything bought from Wayfair. Moving across is about the rooms where the retailer should be chosen after the furniture is.
- The wall, door and window dimensions you already typed into their planner
- The Wayfair pieces you shortlisted — Decato prices them against other shops
- The layout you arrived at, as the starting point Decato sources against
- Saved plans or carts, which stay inside your Wayfair account
- Checkout. Decato specifies the room but does not sell you anything
- The free price — Decato charges once sourcing is involved
Compare Decato against the next closest workflow.
If this page is close but not exact, use the routes below to compare Decato against staging-first, retail-first and render-first alternatives with the same decision lens.
Decato vs REimagineHome
Both source real furniture. REimagineHome fits it to a photo; Decato fits it to a dimensioned plan.
Staging-firstDecato vs Virtual Staging AI
Staging sells the photo. Decato specifies the room — real products, measured fit, a priced spec.
Service-outputDecato vs BoxBrownie
BoxBrownie sells edited images per job. Decato sources a room into a priced specification.
Consumer-visualizationDecato vs IKEA Kreativ
Kreativ furnishes your scanned room from IKEA. Decato adds Wayfair, checks fit and writes a spec.
Most comparison tools judge the screenshot. Designers still have to deliver the room.
Decato is optimized for the step after concept approval: matching real products, checking fit, keeping the room inside budget and turning the output into a defendable package instead of a render to reverse-engineer.
Common questions
Is the Wayfair Room Planner good enough on its own?
For buying from Wayfair, yes. It takes real wall, door and window dimensions, gives you an interactive 3D room, exports as an image or PDF, and adds to the cart — all free (Checked August 2026). It stops being enough when a piece has to be proven to fit, or a client needs a document rather than a cart.
Decato only supports two shops. Why does that beat one?
On range alone it barely does — IKEA and Wayfair are live today and further retailers are planned, so the honest gap is one extra catalogue, not the whole market. The difference that holds regardless of range is what happens to a piece once chosen: Decato measures it against your plan and refuses it if it does not fit.
Does the Wayfair planner check that furniture fits?
It scales the room from the dimensions you enter, so the view is accurate, but it will place whatever you drag in and the judgement stays with you. Decato refuses a piece outright when it crosses a wall, blocks a door swing or breaks a clearance.
Can Decato add things to a cart?
No. Decato specifies the room and links each spec row to the shop page it came from — including in the exported PDF, so a client can click through and buy — but it never takes an order itself. Checkout stays with the retailer.
Which suits a designer billing a client?
Decato, because of the document at the end. A cart is a purchase you are about to make; a spec is a proposal someone else approves, with dimensions, prices and stock status against every line, and a layout showing where each piece goes.