Floristflow

The all-in-one Shopify app for floristsBloom Your Business

Shopify sells products. You sell arrangements — made today, for someone who isn’t the buyer, with a message, on a date. Floristflow adds all of it, and prints the ticket.

Streamline • Organize • Flourish

Shopify wasn’t built for flower shops

Nothing in a standard Shopify order says when it’s going out, who’s receiving it, what the card should say, or what the arrangement is meant to look like. So florists bolt on an app for dates, another for notes, another for printing — and none of them know about each other.

The order ends up correct in four places and whole in none of them, and the bench finds out something is missing when it’s already too late to ask.

The usual setup

  • A delivery-date app for the cart
  • A form app for card messages and notes
  • A printing app, or printing by hand
  • Nothing at all at the till
  • Four subscriptions, four support desks

With Floristflow

  • Dates, zones and cutoffs built in
  • Card message and flower notes on the order
  • Tickets print themselves as orders arrive
  • The same capture at the till and on the phone
  • One app, one place to change something

The bench gets one piece of paper: printed florist order tickets

One sheet, three panels, torn apart where the perforations are: one for the arrangement, one for the shop, and one that goes in the card. Printed on your own stock, on your own printer, as the order arrives.

Everything on it came from the order itself — nothing was retyped, and nothing was left for someone to remember.

Everything a flower shop needs from a Shopify app

Not a date picker with extras — the whole job, from taking the order to the paper in the driver’s hand.

Take the whole order at once

Flowers, colours, card message, recipient, delivery instructions, phone — in one pass, without leaving the sale.

Delivery and pickup, properly

Same-day cutoffs, lead time, windows with capacity, closed weekdays. Set once; every screen offers the same answer.

Zones with real fees

Areas by postal code, priced flat or as a share of the order. One line can cover every 361xx, or every SW1 postcode.

Tickets that print themselves

Orders print to your shop printer as they arrive, on your perforated stock. Reprint any order from the run list.

Today’s run at a glance

What is going out today and tomorrow, what still needs making, what has not printed. Tick each one off.

Close a day in one press

Van off the road, cooler down, a holiday. Close it and nobody can book it — not at the counter, not on your website.

Tell customers before they order

A postcode check on your storefront answers whether you deliver there, with the fee you actually charge.

Fix an order without retyping it

A card message that came through wrong, a delivery moved to Friday. Edit and reprint — Shopify is updated too.

Right dates, wherever you are

Your shop's timezone and your currency, not the server's. A date is the one thing a florist cannot get wrong, and an evening order is exactly when cheaper tools flip to tomorrow.

Every way an order arrives

Four doors into a flower shop, and all of them have to end up with the same ticket at the bench.

Same fields, same rules, same paper — whichever door it came through.

  • Someone walks in. The till captures the arrangement, the message and the date as part of the sale.
  • The phone rings. Take it as a draft order, capture the same details on the order itself, and invoice it.
  • An order comes in overnight. Your website asks for delivery or pickup, checks the address, and offers only the dates you’re actually open.
  • Morning. The run is on screen and the tickets are already printed.

Set up in an afternoon, with nothing migrated

The app tells you what’s still missing rather than leaving you to find out. Connect your printer, add your delivery areas and your hours, and the checklist clears itself as you go.

Nothing is migrated, and nothing about your existing Shopify setup has to change.

“Built in a working flower shop, through a real Valentine’s and a real Mother’s Day — not in a vacuum.”
Why it does the odd things flower shops actually need

The morning list, already sorted — every delivery and pickup for the day

Every order for a day on one screen, in the order it has to happen: what is made, what is still waiting, what printed and what did not.

A print that failed says so on the row rather than in a log somebody has to think to check — the point of a printer is that nobody is watching it.

Both sides of the counter: online cart and point of sale

The same order, captured once — whether a customer is choosing a date on your website at midnight, or someone is standing at your till.

On your cart page. Method, delivery area and the dates you are actually open. On a real storefront it takes your theme’s own fonts and colours — this is it wearing ours.
At the till. The whole arrangement captured as part of the sale, without leaving the cart or writing anything on a pad.

What it replaces

There are three usual ways to run a flower shop online. They cost very differently, and not only in money.

A florist platform

Quote only

Teleflora, eFlorist and similar

  • POS, website and wire service bundled together
  • Built for flower shops, so the fields are right
  • One company to call when something breaks

The catch: your shop lives on their platform. The storefront is not yours, the data is not portable, and no price is published until you ask.

Shopify plus a stack of apps

$65 – $165 / month

A scheduling app, a form app and a printing app

  • Zapiet — Pickup + Delivery, $29.99 to $129.99 by tier
  • A POS form app, around $15
  • An order printing app, around $20

The catch: none of them know about each other. The order is correct in three places and whole in none, and each one is a separate bill, login and support queue.

Shopify plus Floristflow

$100 / month

One app, one bill

  • Scheduling, zones, capture and printing in one place
  • The same capture online, at the till and on the phone
  • Your storefront stays yours

The catch: it is new. It has run a real Valentine's and a real Mother's Day in one working flower shop, which is one shop more than nothing and rather fewer than Teleflora.

Before you ask

Will it work with my theme?

On any Online Store 2.0 theme the picker is a block you drop into the cart page in the theme editor. For older themes, and for themes with a cart drawer instead of a cart page, there is an app embed that puts the same picker in the same place without touching your theme's code.

Do I have to move my orders across?

No. Nothing is migrated. The app reads and writes the order attributes Shopify already carries, so your existing orders stay exactly as they are and your existing Shopify setup does not change.

Does it work at the till, or only online?

Both, and that is rather the point. The same fields are captured at the POS, on a draft order for a phone call, and on the website — so the ticket at the bench looks the same whichever door the order came through.

What do I need to print?

A PrintNode account and a printer it supports. Tickets print on your own stock, from your own printer, as orders arrive — and you can reprint any order from the day's run.

What happens if someone orders outside my delivery area?

The cart checks the postal code against your zones before they get to checkout, and tells them there and then. They can still switch to pickup, or call you.

What if the scheduler cannot load?

It says so, and asks the customer to ring the shop. It deliberately does not fall back to letting an order through with no delivery date — a dateless order is the one that goes wrong at the bench.

Early access

Floristflow is being built with a working flower shop, in a real season, and is opening up to more shops soon. Leave your email and we’ll get in touch when there’s a place.

$100 a month — the whole app, one bill.

Questions before then? Talk to us — or email trey@fathomdev.io.