Papago Vans
Configurator mockup · Iteration 1
Mockup, iteration 1. Clickable, with real component models and ballpark installed prices. Not a quote, not connected to anything, and the pricing is illustrative. Its job is to let ownership see the idea working.

Prepared for ownership · Papago Vans

Papago Collection

Contract to keys in 12 weeks, guaranteed. Or we pay you.

The industry's fastest way to build your custom van. Pick one of three engineered floor plans, then work down the option ladders. The layout never changes, which is what makes the price, the weight and the delivery date knowable. Everything updates as you choose.

The guarantee, in plain terms

What we pay. If we hand you the keys after your guaranteed date, we pay you $50 for every day we are late, up to $1,000. No claim to file and nothing to argue about. It comes off your final payment.

When the clock starts. On your lock date: contract signed, deposit cleared, every option selected and your chassis on our lot, whichever of those happens last. You get the date in writing that day. Options that add shop time are already counted in the date you see as you build.

What pauses it. Anything we are waiting on you for. Selections you have not finalised, a signature, a payment, or a chassis you are supplying yourself. Those days are added to your date and we will tell you each time it happens rather than at the end. Change your selections once the build has started and the clock restarts from the new lock date, because a locked specification is the thing that makes a fixed date possible at all.

What it covers. Papago Collection builds. Papago Custom is not covered, deliberately: we will not promise a date on a van you can still change, and you would not want us to.

01

Choose your floor plan

Three plans, all built on a 2026 Mercedes-Benz Sprinter. Prices are for the conversion: the shell, insulation, electrical, plumbing, cabinetry and everything marked included below. The van itself is not included, and is shown separately so you can see the all-in figure.

02

Choose your options

Open a category, pick a tier, close it and move on. Good is included in the base price at no cost. Better and best add to the total, to the weight and, where the shop clock is affected, to the delivery date.

03

Your build sheet

Line by line, with the manufacturer and model of everything going into the van. Items included in the base price show as no additional cost.

Where these base prices come from, and the product question underneath them. They are anchored to Papago's live published tiers, checked today: Rainier at $48,695 and Mammoth at $62,995, both conversion only. But the published tiers bundle layout and specification together, where this configurator deliberately separates them: pick a layout, then pick a specification per subsystem. So the mapping is a judgement, not a lookup. The Trailhead starts at Rainier, the Longhaul at Mammoth because belted seating and a convertible rear cost more to build, and the Basecamp sits between them. The sanity check is encouraging: a Trailhead with every option at best lands at $120,795, just under El Capitan's published $127,395. The ladder holds. But which model Papago actually wants, bundled tiers or unbundled subsystems, is a real decision and this mockup quietly assumes the second one.
Why both numbers are on screen. Papago sells the conversion, not the van, which is how the whole custom side of this industry quotes. The problem is that Outside Van, Storyteller and Winnebago all publish a single all-in figure, so a shopper comparing us puts our conversion price next to their complete vehicle and we look either cheap or incomprehensible depending on how carefully they read. Showing the conversion and the all-in side by side is the fix, and it costs nothing but a line of copy. The van figure is an estimate for a 170 high roof, clearly labelled, and it moves with whatever chassis a buyer actually chooses.
What this mockup is not. It is a front end with the prices typed into it. The real thing is a web application, and the shape of it is already clear: a buyer creates an account, saves more than one configuration, compares them side by side, picks the one they want, and sales pulls that configuration straight into HubSpot as a deal with every line item attached. Underneath that sits an option and rule model that knows which choices conflict, weights and build hours read from job costs rather than typed in by hand, and pricing that updates in one place rather than three. None of that exists here. This is the thing you show ownership to decide whether to fund it.
Where a saved configuration becomes worth more than a form fill. The moment someone builds a van and saves it, we know their plan, their budget, every option they wanted and every one they backed away from. That is a qualified lead with a specification already attached, and it arrives in HubSpot as a deal rather than a name. It also produces something no van builder currently has: a running record of what buyers actually configure, which after a hundred saves tells us what Papago Collection should have been in the first place.
The payload meter is the point. Every configurator ever built exists to sell more options. This one turns red. A Sprinter 2500 carries roughly 3,800 pounds, a finished build eats most of it, and water alone is 8.3 pounds a gallon. Tick "best" on everything and you will watch it go over, which is a conversation worth having on a web page rather than at handover.