stock with a clock on it
Bought Tuesday, worthless Sunday.
Cut flowers are the most perishable stock in horticulture. Buying is a bet placed three days before the demand arrives, and everything unsold is a straight loss.
Atlas Core tracks stems by intake date and remaining life, not just by quantity - so what came in on Tuesday is visibly different from what came in on Friday.
Wastage is recorded where it happens, by variety and by week. After a season you are buying against a pattern instead of a feeling.
made to order
A bouquet is a small production run.
The thing you sell did not exist when you bought its parts. Stems, foliage, wrap, ribbon and twenty minutes of somebody's time become one line on a receipt.
Atlas Core costs made-up work from its components and its labour, so the margin on a hand-tied is a number rather than a habit.
Recipes are reusable. The wedding you quoted in March prices correctly in July, at July's stem cost.
occasions and rounds
Mother's Day is an operations problem.
Two weekends a year decide the P&L, and both of them are dated orders with an address, a card message and a delivery window attached.
Atlas Core holds the order with its occasion, its recipient and its slot, and builds the morning's round from them - so the van leaves loaded in delivery order.
Proof of delivery comes back to the order, which settles the "it never arrived" conversation before it starts.
Three things a florist needs.
Perishable stock, honestly counted
Intake date and remaining life held per batch of stems, with wastage recorded by variety and week rather than absorbed.
Recipes costed properly
Made-up work priced from components and labour, so a hand-tied has a real margin and a quote holds at today's stem cost.
Dated orders and rounds
Occasion, recipient, card message and delivery window on the order, with the morning round built from them.
The shape of the system.
Retail shop covers the counter, the stock and the buying. Add delivery when the rounds are yours rather than a courier's.
Editions are sold per seat with a 30-day trial. We will tell you which one fits before you commit.
Flower retail, answered.
What is florist software?
It is the system that holds together a shop whose stock has a five-day life and whose product is assembled at the bench: stems bought by the box and counted by intake date, recipes for made-up work, dated delivery orders with a recipient and a card message, the till, and the buying behind it. A general retail EPOS rings the sale but has no idea the stock is dying.
How do you choose an EPOS for a flower shop?
Three tests. Does it hold stems by intake date rather than as one quantity, so Tuesday's box and Friday's are different numbers? Does it cost a hand-tied from its components and labour, and reprice the recipe at today's stem cost? And does a dated order carry its occasion, recipient and delivery window all the way into the morning round? Ask to see all three on your own last wedding quote.
Can it track how old my stems are?
Stock is held by intake batch with its date, so Tuesday's delivery and Friday's are separate numbers. Remaining life is visible rather than inferred from a single quantity.
How is a hand-tied or an arrangement priced?
As a recipe: components plus labour. The recipe reprices itself at today's stem cost, so a quote given months ahead still carries a real margin when it is made up.
Does it handle dated delivery orders?
Occasion, recipient, card message and delivery window sit on the order, and the day's round is built from the orders due - loaded in the sequence the van will drive.
Can I see where wastage is really coming from?
Write-offs are recorded against variety and week, so the pattern shows up as a report rather than as a gap between the buying budget and the takings.