The schedule starts empty
Programa, Fohlio and the rest give you an excellent place to put products. Filling it is still yours: you clip from supplier sites or type rows in by hand, one item at a time.
FF&E specification workflow
The FF&E specification, written as you source the room
An FF&E schedule has two halves. The first is the specification — what each item is, its dimensions, finish, supplier and price. The second is procurement — lead times, order status, deliveries. Decato writes the first half from your floor plan, and does not pretend to run the second.
Real productsFit-validated renderBudget-awareClient-ready deck
A room sourced from real, fit-checked products — the render, budget and spec describe the same room.
Where FF&E tools start
Every FF&E tool assumes you already know what to specify
The hard part is upstream
Deciding which sofa, at what width, within what budget, that still leaves a walkway — that decision happens before any schedule exists, and it is where the evening goes.
Dimensions arrive too late
A row in a spreadsheet does not know your wall runs. Pieces are checked against the room after they are specified, if at all, and a bad fit surfaces at delivery.
How Decato does it
From a plan to filled-in spec rows
01
Start from the plan
Import a floor plan and set the brief, style and budget once.
02
Match products to the room
Real, in-stock items matched to each zone, sized to their catalogue dimensions.
03
Reject what does not fit
A piece crossing a wall or blocking a door swing is moved or dropped before it reaches a row.
04
Export the specification
Item, room, quantity, dimensions, supplier, price and a link, with the room total.
The deliverable
What lands in the spec
- Item, room, quantity and category for every piece in the room
- Real dimensions, taken from the product rather than estimated
- Supplier and a link that still opens from the exported PDF
- Unit price, room subtotals and a total measured against the budget
- A fit check behind every row — nothing specified that will not physically go in
Already running Programa, Fohlio or DesignFiles? Decato fills their first columns rather than replacing them.
See how Decato comparesCommon questions
Is Decato FF&E schedule software?
Only the specification half of one. It produces what each item is — dimensions, finish, supplier, price, quantity, room — from your floor plan. It does not track lead times, order status, purchase orders or deliveries, which is what a full FF&E schedule does once specification is finished.
Does it replace Programa, Fohlio or DesignFiles?
No, and it is not trying to. Those tools manage a schedule you fill in — by clipping products from supplier sites or entering them by hand. Decato produces the rows in the first place, from the plan. They sit either side of the same handover, and most studios that need both will keep both.
What is the difference between a specification and a schedule?
A specification describes one product in detail: manufacturer, dimensions, materials, finishes. A schedule tracks every item across a project along with its procurement data — vendor, cost, lead time, order status, delivery date. Decato writes specifications; a schedule is what you keep them in.
Can I get the spec out of Decato and into my own system?
The specification exports as a PDF whose rows still open the supplier page they came from, so it can be handed to a client for approval or re-keyed into whatever schedule you already run. There is no direct integration with FF&E platforms today.
Does the spec stay in sync if the design changes?
Yes — it is tied to the live project rather than exported and forgotten. Swapping a product or moving a piece updates its row, the room subtotal and the total against budget, so the specification and the layout never drift apart.
Which retailers does it specify from?
IKEA and Wayfair are live today, with further retailer integrations planned. Every item carries the dimensions, price and stock status from that retailer, which is what makes the fit check and the budget total meaningful rather than estimated.
Try it on your next project
Run this step on a real room.
See it work end to end — real products, fit checks, a tracked budget and a client-ready deck, generated from your floor plan.