Furniture & home: the dimensions table that stops a return before it ships

A sofa that doesn't fit through the door is the most expensive kind of return there is. A clear dimensions table, next to the photo, stops a lot of these before they ship.

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One line of text isn't enough

"W 220 x D 95 x H 85 cm" in a description answers one question and raises three more: what's the seat height, does it come in parts, how much does it weigh for delivery. A table lets you answer all of them, in the same place, the way a spec sheet would.

What to put in it

Cartsella Studio's Table field comes with a specification template for exactly this, fillable like a spreadsheet, with a header row and merged cells where a variant shares a measurement with another.

The Cartsella Studio table editor filling in a table on a product, with buttons to add rows, columns, merge cells and add a header row

Per variant, not just per product

A sofa with a 2-seat and 3-seat option needs a row per variant, not one set of numbers for both. Build the table once with a column per variant, and every size is answered on the one page a shopper is already looking at.

Where it pays off most

Big-ticket, hard-to-return items — sofas, beds, wardrobes, dining sets — are exactly where a clear spec table earns back the ten minutes it takes to fill in.

Stop the return before it ships.

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