The most clomplete, easy to use and affordable flower shop management system available. Offering Point of Sale, Order Taking, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Payroll, Dispatcher's Operations, Weddings, Time Clocks, Employee Management and so much more... all for one low price. Interfaces with Dove, Mercury Direct and Bloomlink. flowerSoft, we'll charge you more... if it makes you feel better.
flowerSoft now available for as little as $99/month including support fees!!! (read details in the "Current Prices" page)
Our mission statement:
To consistently be at the cutting edge of innovation, customer service, support and technology in the florist software arena.
To continually strive to be the best floral program available at any proce, to add value and capabilities to our product each and every day and become the premier and most affordable flower shop POS solution available to florists.
To listen to our customers and try to be the "perfect" florist software solution for the typical flower shop.
flowerSoft has very few hardware requirements. It will run on any computer running Windows, from Windows 95 to Windows Vista. We recommend Windows XP Professional. If you are contemplating a multi-user network solution, we recommend Windows 2003 Server or Windows 2003 Small Business Edition Server. Novell servers are excellent and also supported. They are a requirement if you are still running a Mercury 3000 computer. However, it is becoming increasingly difficult to find techs that are proficient at installing and supporting Novell networks. Because of that we recommend you switch to the Mercury Direct option and install a Windows server. The computers (clients) should have 1GB of RAM and at least a 40GB hard drive if you are running Windows XP. Flat screen monitors, although more money that regular crt monitors, save a considerable amount of desk/counter space which is always at a premium in most flower shops.
Printers This is the area where flowerSoft has a requirement. You need to have a laser printer that is PCL5e capable. Although there are many of such printers out there, we recommend the Dell or HP laser printers. Specifically, we recommend the Dell 1700 (most inexpensive), the HP1320 (moderate cost), the HP2400 (more money) or the HP4350 (most expensive of the 3). With the HP2400 and the HP4350 you have the option of getting an additional paper drawer, something we highly recommend. If you are considering a single-user system and you are going to install flowerSoft in the same computer where the Dove and/or Mercury Direct programs are running and you are considering the HP1320 printer, make sure you get a parallel port cable. The reason for this is that with a printer with only one removable drawer, your Dove and/or Mercury orders and confirmations will print over the flowerSoft forms. To avoid this, you can get a printer with at least 2 removable drawers so that flowerSoft can print to one of the drawers and the Dove/Mercury can print to the other; or you can get an inexpensive injet printer (some are less that $50) and connect it to the USB port in your computer. You can then make this printer your default Windows printer so that Dove and Mercury will print there. flowerSoft will then print to the laser printer.
HP1320TN Laser Printer
If you want to make a computer POS capable, you will need some additional equipment and/or programs. flowerSoft does not sell any hardware nor programs other that flowerSoft. You must purchase any additional hardware and/or programs from local vendors or distributors. Recommended additional equipment for POS stations: Cash Drawer - MMF ECD 232 serial cash drawer 40-Column Printer - Epson TM-series USB interface Magnetic Card Readers - Magtek Miniwedge Card Readers - Tracks 1 & 2 or Cherry Keyboard. Scanners - Just about anyone will do - Go for the best price - Datalogix makes some good ones.
ICVerify software for authorizing credit card purchases through computer. Please note that although flowerSoft interfaces with ICVerify to get approval of debit cards, flowerSoft does not, at the present time, interface with PIN pad readers. If you want or need to use a pin pad reader, you have to get the authorization using ICVerify's interface.
