Printing Shopify orders automatically
Most order-printing apps make a PDF. Somebody still has to open it and press print. On a Saturday morning with forty arrangements to make, that person is the bottleneck — and the order that gets missed is the one nobody opened.
To: Erin Whitaker
Delivery
14 Cedar Street
Montgomery, AL 36117
Delivery Date: 8/25/26
Delivery Day: Tuesday
Order #: 51902Erin Whitaker
Order taken by: Dana
Tuesday — 8/25/26
2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Flower Notes: tall whites and blush, garden style
Colour Palette: ivory, dusty pink, sage
TOTAL: 92.14
Happy birthday, Mum.
Wish we were there.
— J & A
What automatic has to mean
- The order arrives and the ticket appears. No tab, no dashboard, no one remembering.
- On your paper. Florist tickets are usually a perforated sheet torn into panels — one for the arrangement, one for the shop, one that goes in the card. The layout has to match the stock you already buy.
- Everything the bench needs. Card message, flower notes, colours, recipient, delivery window. If a field is missing from the ticket somebody has to go and look it up.
- A record when it fails. Paper jams and computers sleep. A failed print has to say so on the order, not sit in a log nobody thinks to check — the whole point of a printer is that nobody is watching it.
- Reprints. Tickets get lost, spilled on and thrown away. Reprinting one should take a click from the day’s run.
What it needs on your side
Cloud software cannot reach a printer on your shop’s network by itself, so something has to bridge the two. Floristflow prints through PrintNode, which means a small client runs on the computer your printer is attached to.
That detail matters more than it sounds, so it is worth saying plainly rather than in a footnote: the client has to be running on the machine the printer is plugged into. Starting it on a different computer connects that computer and nothing else, and the printer list stays empty while every printer still reports itself as online.
More than one counter
Shops with a second location can give each one its own printer, so a ticket comes out where the arrangement is being made rather than wherever the shop printer happens to be. A delivery address is routed to the counter that serves it.
See the whole app, or read about delivery date selection.
Early access
Floristflow is $100 a month, one app, one bill.