Commitment To The Floral Industry

Like flowers this industry is precious and fragile. FloristWare is the only independent POS provider that supports the floral industry and associations you love and the events you learn from.

FloristWare is a small company but we punch above our weight when it comes to supporting the floral industry – by supporting the associations florists love, sponsoring educational content that will help them be more successful at industry events, and more.

"Considering the relative size of FloristWare to other providers, no one has given more to help support and grow florists."

- Great Lakes Floral Association National Service Award

Our efforts in this area surpass those of all other independent POS providers combined. We're giving more to this industry than all our competitors put together. It's not always easy but we believe that supporting our florist clients and the industry is a vital responsibility. Some of our efforts include:

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"To say we are grateful and appreciate everything FloristWare did for the Florida State Florists Association 2014 Convention would be a gross understatement. Without your magnanimous donation of sponsorship for the very informative presentation by Mark Anderson, our convention would have been severely lacking. The very positive chatter regarding the great presentation given by Mark was pervasive throughout the convention."

- Deborah & Gus De La Flor 2014 FSFA Annual Convention Convention Chairpersons

"I just wanted to send you a little email to THANK YOU for being so kind and generous. We really appreciate your sponsorship with our Body Art Competition at mid season."

- Darenda Darnell-Garbarz AAF, CFD, FSMD Owner, Designs by Darenda FSFA President

"FloristWare is one of the most active and connected companies behind the scenes in our industry. They work tirelessly for their customers, and are incredibly generous with their time and resources in helping people and organizations across the floral industry. FloristWare is a small company, but at their direction they sponsor speakers and exhibit at florist events across North America. On social media and the FloristWare website they continue to promote awareness of florist shows and events all over Canada and the USA. They even donate their time to help organizations with websites, graphics, printing, and other efforts. Especially considering the relative size of FloristWare to other providers, no one has given more to help support and grow florists."

- Great Lakes Floral Association National Service Award

Scoring App For Floral Design Competitions

Florists love design competitions so we created an application to make things easier for the hardworking volunteers that organize and run them.

Floral design competitions are a staple at industry events for a good reason. Designers love participating and all the attendees love seeing what they come up with. Unfortunately they also involve an insane amount of work for the volunteers – judges and organizers that make them possible.

We first became aware of this at the 2019 Great Lakes Floral & Event Expo (GLFEE). When everybody else was at the Friday night reception the volunteers were still scoring the entries. And when the scoring was done the volunteers spent another hour totalling everything up. By the time they were done pretty much everyone else had gone to bed – the volunteers had missed a full night of one the best events in the industry.

We committed that night to making things easier the next year through technology. And, at the 2020 GLFEE, we debuted a new scoring app created specifically to make design competitions easier to run. Each judge was supplied with a tablet loaded with the application. All they had to do was walk up to an arrangement, scan the bar code and start scoring it. Results were tabulated instantly.

But it wasn't just about making the scoring process faster and more efficient for the judges and organizers. We also wanted to make it a better experience for the contestants. With that in mind judges could take photos right in the app, and then comment on things they felt warranted special attention. This information, along with the score details, would be spent to them to further their competitive aspirations.

"I would like to say thank you to Mark Anderson and the team at FloristWare for their help and support developing and implementing the evaluation platform used for our 2021 Great Lakes Floral Association Design Contest. It was very easy for our team of professional evaluators to use and eliminated any chance for human error when tabulating the scores for each contestant."

- Rodney P. Crittenden Great Lakes Floral Association CEO/Executive Vice President

in 2021 the pandemic created a new wrinkle... we had to adapt the app, which was always conceived to run on tablets, and make it work for a virtual contest where the designs were submitted online. This version was used by the AIFD Foundation to run the "Just Make It Pretty" online design contest. And, in the years that followed, it was used at more prestigious design competitions including the Gateway to the Americas Cup, Mid-America Cup and Sylvia Cup.

In 2023 AIFD asked FloristWare to make a heavily modified version of the app to help run the Professional Floral Design Evaluation (PFDE®) exam and AIFD student Design Competition. After extensive development and testing it was used for the first time at the 2024 AIFD Symposium in Orlando.

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