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Business 58 September | 2021 Among the software options offered by Floranext, all of which can be purchased separately or together, based on a florist's needs, is Floral Wedding/Event Manager, a cloud-based wedding-and-event- management tool. O'Shea reports, " We saw independent flower shops like our own trying to manage events with complex spreadsheets. Our Floral Wedding/Event Manager, which is also accessible via a web portal or as an iPad app, allows f lorists to create proposals with beautiful images. It also simplifies the calculation of costs and profits, helps them to build contracts and f loral shopping lists, and seamlessly collect payments." Keeping pace with available POS systems, O'Shea details his company's cloud-based option, which allows customers to access their systems anywhere. "Our POS Standard, which is accessible via a web portal or via an iPad app, is built for traditional retail fl ower shops. It comes with advanced tools like ticket printing, delivery routing, an app for delivery drivers to update order status, the ability to send completed order photos to clients, a calendar manager to see daily orders easily, and many other tools. Our POS Lite is a streamlined version that focuses on order taking, which is perfect for studio fl orists." Along with its wedding-and-event software and POS system, Floranext also off ers a website product that allows shops to off er fl ower subscriptions and collect Google reviews, among other features. Sharing what motivates him to continue building technologies for fl orists, O'Shea says, "Having grown up working in my family's fl ower shop, I'm driven to help independent fl orists grow their businesses easily and aff ordably. Our focus at Floranext has always been on building innovative solutions for fl orists so they can focus on the creative part of the job." 2 When Tim Huckabee, FSC, president of FloralStrategies, advises in this article that fl orists research various software programs and POS systems before choosing one, he's assigning some hefty homework. There are myriad options, and determining which one will best fi t the needs of your shop will require lots of comparison shopping and critical analysis. To help you with this task, we've assembled this list of the top fl ower-shop-specifi c wedding/event-planning software programs and POS systems in North America. Visit these companies' websites to discover which ones offer the features you need most—and, of course, their costs. TOP WEDDING/EVENT-PLANNING SOFTWARE PROGRAMS Aisle Planner AislePlanner.com/Solutions/ Tools-for-Floral-Designers BloomsBy BloomsBy.com Curate Curate.co Details Flowers Software Info.DetailsFlowers.com Lobiloo Lobiloo.com Osagao Osagao.com Socko Florist SockoFlorist.com True Client Pro TrueClientPro.com TOP POS SYSTEMS WITH WEDDING/EVENT-PLANNING SOFTWARE PROGRAMS Floranext (POS with "Floral Wedding/ Event Manager") Floranext.com fl owerSoft Silver (POS with "Wedding Program" and "Quotation Program") fl owerSoftSilver.com FTD Mercury (POS with add-on "Event Planner" module) FTDI.com/MercuryTechnology IRIS Software Systems (POS with "Florist Wedding & Event Software") OnlyIRIS.com QuickFlora Florist POS (POS with "eVenta Event & Wedding Manager") QuickFlora.com TOP POS SYSTEMS FOR FLORISTS (no wedding/event-planning software) BloomNation JoinBloomNation.com BloomNet Business Management System (BMS) (POS and websites) BloomNet.net/Technology/ Business-Management-System FAS FloralAccountingSystems.com Floral POS (The) TheFloralPOS.com FloristWare FloristWare.com gotFlowers (POS and websites) gotFlowers.com Hana Software (POS and websites) HanaFloristPOS.com Komet Sales KometSales.com MAS MASDirect.com Telefl ora Dove POS and RTI MyTelefl ora.com/DovePOS.aspx MyTelefl ora.com/RTI_POS.aspx Visual Ticket (POS and websites) FloralSystems.com CHOICES, CHOICES

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