Retail store layout software
Laydyne lets you edit a shop, compare checkout and fitting-room queues, and inspect shelf and camera views. Use the same model to discuss merchandising, replenishment and building checks.
Start with a free account. Simulations are estimates and require Pro.
Inspect exit widths, walking routes and the aisles between shelves.
Compare checkout, fitting rooms and replenishment.
Inspect selected Japanese building and fire criteria.
Compare assumed shelf visibility and camera coverage.
Present fixtures in 3D and export the layout and quantities.
Shops & supermarkets · Shop access and facilities
Measure the drawn shop and arrange shelves or facilities such as the AED. Inspect routes around shelves and walls when comparing exit access and aisle widths.
Shops & supermarkets · Store operations
Set shopper arrivals and service steps for an approximate trading period. Vary checkout lanes, fitting-room availability or replenishment staff and compare waits and work completed.
Shops & supermarkets · Retail building checks
Specify the retail use and building conditions needed by the checks. Inspect windows, occupant-load assumptions and selected equipment findings with their stated limits.
Shops & supermarkets · Shelves and cameras
Open the camera tool to inspect coverage, blind spots and people on camera. Open the gaze heatmap to compare shelves in visitors’ assumed view. The convenience store example includes a saved lunch-hour run.
Cameras. Inspect the six cameras’ coverage and blind spots, and the people on camera during the saved lunch hour.
Gaze heatmap. See which shelf faces came into visitors’ assumed view during the saved lunch hour, from their recorded movement.
The lunch hour’s run is saved with the model, so it plays without a paid plan. Running it again with other settings needs Pro.
Shops & supermarkets · Retail proposal
Inspect shelf and counter positions inside the store model. Export the floor plan and fixture schedule to discuss merchandising and fit-out changes.
Open a shop model and adapt its shelves, counters and service areas.
Start from this model for freeAsk the AI to compare queues, replenishment or assumed shelf visibility.
In this shop's Saturday simulation (as drawn), list the ten fixture faces longest in shoppers' view on each floor, with a view of 120° and 6 m.
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I want security cameras in this shop (as drawn). Weighting the door and the checkouts, how many do I need, and where, so that 90% of what must be seen is seen? Check, too, that the toilet and the staff room are not seen.
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For this shop's Saturday (as drawn, two floors), compare the fitting-room and checkout waits and the time in the shop with two to four fitting rooms per floor and two or three checkouts, 20 runs each.
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Review shopper assumptions and building findings, then export the shop plan.
A street-front shop of 10.4 × 15.4 m: a sales floor with a 3.0 m ceiling behind fixed display glass and an automatic door, sliding windows on its side, and at the back an office with a window, a staff room without one and a stock room under a 2.5 m ceiling, ready to check by Japan’s building order whether each room’s windows open high enough to let smoke out, and what a room short of it needs.
A free account is needed to start.
A two-storey roadside building of 10 × 15 m on an 11 × 17 m lot fronting a 6 m road, 0.5 m from its neighbours on both sides: a shop behind its shopfront on the ground floor and a restaurant above with two windows to the road, two to a narrow side gap and a small toilet window high up, ready to check whether each floor is a windowless floor for Japan’s fire code and what windows would make it an ordinary one.
A free account is needed to start.
Shelving, chilled walls, checkout, back room and forecourt parking.
Opens in Studio without an account.
Aisles, fresh counters, checkout lanes, back of house and car park.
Opens in Studio without an account.
See where Saturday shoppers wait: the staffed lanes or the self-checkout pod.
Watch a konbini lunch rush: registers, coffee, eat-in seats and restocking at once.
Explore six security cameras and the shelves in visitors’ assumed view, using a saved lunch-hour simulation in an editable convenience store.
Size the fitting rooms and tills of a two-floor fashion store for a Saturday afternoon.
See how long fixtures stay short on a Saturday with one or two stock assistants.
Explore exampleA second stock assistant cuts the time a fixture stays short from 34.0 minutes to 12.1 minutes, 21.9 minutes less (run for run, 95% interval 15.2 to 28.7).
Read the articleWith two staff, putting both on the checkouts and letting one step away to restock cuts a shopper’s time from joining the queue to paying to 2.2 minutes, against 8.3 minutes with one cashier and one restocker.
Read the articleAs drawn, the 5,909.48 m² store is a windowless floor of 1,000 m² or more, so it needs sprinklers.
Read the articleWith two AEDs, one by the service counter and one by the swing door at the back, every point of the store is within a 60 m walk of an AED (58.66 m at most from the sales floor, 50.35 m from the back of house).
Read the articleWith the added fire exit, the drugstore's exits are 5.3 m wide in all (automatic doors 2.4 m, back door 0.9 m, fire exit 2 m), more than the 5.12 m needed.
Read the articleAt the convenience store, the tobacco and lottery shelf in front of the checkout queue was in view for 5,887 shopper-seconds; upstairs at the clothing store, the caps and wallets table in front of the fitting rooms was in view for 15,771.
Read the articleStreet-front shop: a high sales floor and its back rooms
Start from this model for freeA synthetic two-level store gains eight shelves and keeps its stairs and floor opening.
With two AEDs, one by the service counter and one by the swing door at the back, every point of the store is within a 60 m walk of an AED (58.66 m at most from the sales floor, 50.35 m from the back of house).
With the added fire exit, the drugstore's exits are 5.3 m wide in all (automatic doors 2.4 m, back door 0.9 m, fire exit 2 m), more than the 5.12 m needed.
With 6 lanes, only just enough for 180 shoppers an hour, one shared line made the mean wait 23.1 s longer (95% interval 13.7 to 32.5 s).
With three checkouts, even four fitting rooms leave a checkout wait of 1.1 minutes, and the time in the store falls from today’s 19.3 to 10.8 minutes (8.4 minutes less, 95% interval 7.4 to 9.5).
A second stock assistant cuts the time a fixture stays short from 34.0 minutes to 12.1 minutes, 21.9 minutes less (run for run, 95% interval 15.2 to 28.7).
With two staff, putting both on the checkouts and letting one step away to restock cuts a shopper’s time from joining the queue to paying to 2.2 minutes, against 8.3 minutes with one cashier and one restocker.
At the hotel's front desk, 110 arrivals wait 69.3 minutes on average with one clerk and 2.0 minutes with two.
Three fitting rooms per floor cut the clothing store's time in the shop from 19.3 minutes to 15.2 minutes, but the checkout wait grows from 2.2 minutes to 6.1 minutes.
In all 3 examples one measure improved while another worsened: the shop's shelves rose from 12 to 20, but the minimum gap between them narrowed from 4.00 m to 1.40 m.
Check whether each room of a shop with a high sales floor has windows high and wide enough to let smoke out under Japan's rules in force from November 2025, and what a room that falls short needs.
Check whether each floor of a two-storey roadside shop has the openings Japan's fire code requires for firefighting, why the restaurant upstairs is a windowless floor, and what taller windows change.
As drawn, the 5,909.48 m² store is a windowless floor of 1,000 m² or more, so it needs sprinklers.
A convenience store of 272.06 m² needs two extinguishers (2.72 units or more) and exit signs, but no fire alarm.
Of ten facilities an AI counted, a banquet hall for 200 holds 2,054, an izakaya 54 and a convenience store 51.
Eleven facilities checked against Japan's extinguisher rules: a banquet hall of 1,262.06 m² needs 12.62 units, a convenience store of 272.06 m² 2.72, and an animal hospital of 210.04 m² needs none.
29 facilities: some uses need an alarm at any size, others from 300, 500 or 1,000 m².
Of 21 examples that need them on every floor, only a small café may; a convenience store 16.72 m from its farthest point cannot.
Indoor hydrants are needed from 500, 700 or 1,000 m² of total floor area by use, doubled or tripled if fire-resistant.
Extinguishers, fire alarms, indoor hydrants and exit signs for 29 facilities an AI checked.
An office floor's reception opens 2.7 m² of window for air, just short of the twentieth of its floor it needs, 2.78 m².
Adding 1 extinguisher by the drugstore's west wall gives 12 extinguisher units and a farthest walk of 18.57 m, within 20 m.
The tobacco and lottery shelf behind the checkouts leads: all 85 shoppers face it as they queue.
On both floors, the fixtures in view the longest were those beside the places where shoppers wait: the checkout queue and the fitting-room lobbies; while they wait, shoppers stand facing the same way.
Just inside the entrance (B), the socks and small gifts tables are in view of every shopper.
On a convenience store plan, six security cameras cover 91.9% of the sales floor, checkouts, entrance and ATM (weighted).
In ten facilities counted on the plan, six cameras see 91.9% of a convenience store; in a warehouse, ten see 83.0% and sixteen see 94.3%.
At the convenience store, the tobacco and lottery shelf in front of the checkout queue was in view for 5,887 shopper-seconds; upstairs at the clothing store, the caps and wallets table in front of the fitting rooms was in view for 15,771.