Top Rated Florist Software – 2021’s List

Did you know there are nearly 200 types of flowers used at a flower shop. Apart from these, according to an estimate, there are roughly 4,00,000 flowering plant species all over the world. Florists deal with hundreds of types of flowers and also have to bulk order them for display, attractiveness, and better sales. It is nearly impossible to remember all the kinds of flowers in stock and various designs of flower presentations or bouquet presentations for the clients. Thus, there are ample florists software available to ease this process. This way, the florists can worry less about their stock and also produce high quality designs and share more designs through a single platform.

Orderhive is widely known for its inventory management and order management applications. Orderhive was created with a vision to ease the back-end operations of every retailer and seller. Orderhive accelerates the entire process by their automation feature and also has been recognized as having a smooth integration process. This helps the business owners work on the marketing activities and focus on the growth of the business, rather than worrying about the inventory and other activities.

Company Brief

• Inception: Since 2015
• Website: www.orderhive.com
• Contact: support@orderhive.com, sales@orderhive.com
• Deployment: Cloud, SaaS, and Web
• Trial Version: YES

Features

• Inventory Management
• Product Listing with uniformity across all channels
• Reach out to more customers by integrating with sales channels
• Multi-channel listing feature with default/custom listing templates
• Real-time sync and listing data management
• Purchase Order Management
• Create Purchase Orders and contact suppliers
• Automated Purchase Order and real-time information
• eCommerce Automation and auto-update orders 
• Create Bills, send and receive payments

PROS

• Great and Effective Inventory Tracking System
• Facility to Add Images to Inventory
• RFID/ Barcode Option Available
• Low Fees with high features as Compared to Alternatives
• Facility to Add Multiple Warehouses and Shipping Partners
• Training : In Person, Online, Webinar, Documentation, or Presentation
• Support: Round-the-clock Customer Service and Online Presence
• Regular Updates based on Client Suggestions

CONS

• Loss of information when operating on huge data
• Sync and Setting up information is bit tedious until it starts syncing
• Takes time to learn and understand all the features, need more training
• Updates on new additions are released relatively slow
• Bit difficult to Reconfigure

REVIEWS

Capterra 4.04/5 (198 Reviews)

SoftwareAdvice 4.30/5 (198 Reviews)

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Floranext is a great way for florists to streamline their business operations along with creating an attractive floral website. Floranext is a tool to organize and manage inventory, track orders, fast setup, and an easy interface. Floranext is well-known amongst retailers, flower shops and florists, independent  florists and large companies having multiple outlets. In all, Floranext is a platform that helps to create florist websites, Florist POS, and software that helps with the company operations. 

Company Brief

• Inception: Since 2010
• Website: www.floranext.com
• Contact: Fill up a Contact Information Form
• Deployment: Cloud
• Trial Version: YES

Features

• Create Florist Proposals for Clients
• Track and trace payments and bills
• Works on computer and mobile devices
• Generate shopping and floral quantities lists 

PROS

• Great Customer Service and Coordination
• Regular updates and implementations on the software 
• Easy to use and good response time
• Helps with the day-to-day business operations
• Easily integrates with the POS software
• Can be customized according to client expectations

CONS

• Billing and taxations values are not correct many times
• Unable to view taxation bifurcation and values keep changing
• Unable to configure the printers and others repeatedly
• At times, there are unwanted features instead of working on the basics
• Mobile devices need more advanced features, trouble using them
• Missing features to select the pickup time on the orders

REVIEWS

Capterra 4.60/5 (60 Reviews)

SoftwareAdvice 4.65/5 (60 Reviews)

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Lobiloo is widely known for its drag and drop floral estimate tool. It helps to create floral proposals for the flower shops, florists or independent florists. It also is used to create floral designs through their centralized database. It is loaded with thousands of flowers by types, color, and seasons and clients can create their own designs. It also has features like planning and managing events and can estimate bills, create orders and bills for floral services. 

Company Brief

• Inception: Since 2013
• Website: www.lobiloo.com
• Contact: hi@lobiloo.com
• Deployment: Web / SaaS/ Cloud
• Schedule Demo: YES

Features

• Library of flowers based on season, type, and color
• Create number of floral designs and share them with clients
• Feature to store and save the designs for future references
• Create, plan, and manage events, client data, and venue details
• Prepare and save notes and add multiple venues for each event
• Feature to estimate costs, profits, and tax calculations
• Create orders and order bills for the clients 

PROS

• Every minute and detailed information is added in floral proposals
• Impressive designs which helps to convince clients with our proposals
• Great feature to manage the backend business operations
• Ability to track the pending tasks and schedule
• Proposals include photos, detailed information, and itemization 
• Easy to create recipes and can print the same for further reference

CONS

• Unable to access and work on the new payment feature
• Part payment facility is not available in the the new payment feature
• Few floral arrangements are missing in the options such as garlands
• Unable to customize the finished proposals
• Needs tutorials to understand the software, not very easy to understand

REVIEWS

Capterra 4.50/5 (32 Reviews)

G2.COM 4.00/5 (1 Reviews)

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Bloomtrac Software is best known for creating proposals, preparing recipes, and organizing the planning and proposal process. Bloomtrac was recently taken over by Curate and thus includes many new features. Bloomtrac Software is the choice of many small and medium sized businesses as they are simple to operate, can manage orders and billings, process online payments, and have automation features.

Company Brief

• Inception: Since 2009
• Website: www.bloomtrac.com
• Contact: hello@curate.co
• Deployment: Web / SaaS/ Cloud
• Schedule Demo: YES

Features

• Feature to customize the fonts and colors of the proposal
• Add notes, proposal expiration date, status, and pricing templates
• Access to the Drag and drop feature according to interests and images
• Ability to include pricing, quotation, images, and add recipes
• Create new recipes and save them for future proposals
• Automatically generates shopping lists including quantity and leftovers

PROS

• Easy integration with Quickbooks and other applications
• Inbuilt calendar to save events and can sync with google calendar
• Organized workflow and helps with the daily business operations
• Creating orders is more efficient as it automatically calculates data
• Displays exact inventory figures and helps with under and over ordering

CONS

• Difficult to navigate the software and difficult to understand
• Last few updates have not been of much use and seems non-intuitive
• Initial setup phase of customizing items is time consuming and slow
• No feature to add labor charges in percentage while creating proposals
• Found few glitches and difficulties when using on mobile device

REVIEWS

Capterra 4.80/5 (27 Reviews)

G2.COM –/5 (NA)

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Komet Sales is a simple and quick to learn software solution that simplifies the working operation of the company. It automates the processes to achieve high productivity along with increasing sales. Komet Sales easily integrates across various sales channels and also simplifies the payment process for the better functioning of business deals. Komet Sales is best known amongst nurseries, wholesalers, and importers.

Company Brief

• Inception: Since 2005
• Website: www.kometsales.com
• Contact: Fill up a Contact Information Form
• Deployment: Cloud
• Schedule Demo: YES

Features

• Improves sales with their Sales Management solution
• Prepare inventory labels and warehouse inventory details 
• Integrate with online sales partners and different systems
• eCommerce tool to check invoices, orders, and account status
• Create reports and dashboards for sales and inventory
• Automate the purchasing process and view real-time updates

PROS

• Great eCommerce tool that helps customers to buy from anywhere
• Quick and effective customer service
• Continuous upgrades based on client recommendations
• Amazing sales and logistics modules 
• Ability to understand the customers interests and latest trends 

CONS

• Few glitches and snags which adversely affects the workflow
• Unable to load inventory details for few companies
• Expensive to use higher functionality upgrades 
• Not very user friendly and reports are not easy to understand
• Very less or few integrations with commercial freight services 

REVIEWS

Capterra 4.60/5 (14 Reviews)

G2.COM 4.0/5 (1 Review)

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IRIS Floral POS, as the name suggests, is a great point of sales solution for floral inventory. It helps track inventory, provide real-time updates, provides GPS integration, create florist websites, and much more. IRIS Floral POS is best known amongst small to medium sized floral shops, and large multi-store companies as well. It is also known to create and manage events and process payments through their All-in-One IRIS Floral POS.

Company Brief

• Inception: Since 2009
• Website: www.onlyiris.com
• Contact: sales@iris-soft.net
• Deployment: Web Based / SaaS / Cloud
• Schedule Demo: YES

Features

• Create and modify Customer Profiles
• Equipped with certified EVM (chip card)
• ‘Fit to Screen’ order entry and has no ‘scroll down’
• Order Management feature to take and track orders
• Supports all payment methods and prints invoices
• Integrate with sales channels and import data
• Create and access reports on inventory, sales, invoices
• Create website from various templates or create own design
• Include product catalogue and manage company details
• Create proposals and customize proposal details.

PROS

• Great to use and highly efficient for day-to-day operations
• Great customer service and effective training of software
• Easy to integrate and manage multiple shops 
• Able to manage huge inventories and large data effectively
• Easy and quick customization according to requirements

CONS

• Minor delays in support requests and needs follow ups
• Faulty and unreliable accounting solutions
• Unable to integrate with Quickbooks and does not work 
• Often display of faulty errors and bugs 
• Unable to open the cash drawer even after selecting the option

REVIEWS

Capterra 4.80/5 (13 Reviews)

G2.COM –/5 (NA)

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MyPlantShop is a one stop solution for floral inventory, managing orders, and creating floral billings. It allows clients to add their customers database and inventory details and based on information, MyPlantShop calculates the invoice. It also helps with creating reports for financial purposes and inventory management. It is well known amongst plant nurseries for helping them in managing the business operations.

Company Brief

• Inception: Since 2010
• Website: www.myplantshop.com
• Contact: Fill up a Contact Information Form
• Deployment: Cloud
• Schedule Demo: YES

Features

• Create, update, and manage inventory details 
• Effective inventory management tool to add various information
• Prepare and manage customers list
• View and print customer’s account status and pricing details 
• Create invoices and can print or directly mail to the client 
• Generate various reports with as inple click
• Separate accounting module to trace payments and sales

PROS

• Great inventory control feature for the nurseries
• Helps to streamline the workflow and payment orders
• Keeps track of daily accounting and customers payments
• Easy to print reports, statements, and tax documents
• Great option of custom pricing feature for customers

CONS

• Difficulty to understand the software, takes time to learn
• Limited functionality while generating an invoice
• Cannot delete items after creating an invoice
• Unable make changes or modify a deleted items 

REVIEWS

Capterra 5/5 (3 Reviews)

G2.COM 5/5 (1 Review)

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