Cost arrangements down to the stem, send polished proposals, and get paid — without juggling five different apps.
Here's what a typical workflow looks like for florists.
Enter stem costs, greenery, supplies, and labor for each arrangement. Clearmargin calculates the true cost with markup applied per category.
Build proposals for weddings and events with multiple arrangements, setup fees, and delivery. Each line item pulls from your recipe costs.
Log time for design consultations, sourcing runs, arrangement work, setup, and breakdown. Every hour counts toward profitability.
Track purchases from wholesalers, rental companies, and suppliers. See what you spend per vendor and per event.
Send invoices with deposit milestones (booking deposit, balance due before event). After the event, see your true margin.
Proposals, contracts, time tracking, invoicing, expenses, and tax prep — all in one place.
Build arrangements with per-stem costs. Markup cascades from material categories — stems, greenery, hardgoods, rentals.
Organize supplies into stems, greenery, hardgoods, and rentals. Each category carries its own markup percentage.
Milestones tied to the event date: consultation, design approval, sourcing, setup day, breakdown. Templates for common events.
Track events through your workflow: inquiry, booked, designing, sourcing, event day, complete. Drag-and-drop kanban view.
Record purchases by vendor. See spending trends with wholesalers and rental companies across events.
Log trips to wholesalers, venues, and client meetings. IRS standard rate applied for tax deductions.
Collect booking deposits, progress payments, and final balances. Automated reminders for each milestone.
Generate invoices from proposals with full line item detail or clean consolidated totals.
Schedule C categorization, quarterly estimates, and export packages. QuickBooks and CSV formats.
Explore a demo account pre-loaded with realistic floristsdata — proposals, invoices, expenses, and profitability reports.
Explore the demoProfessional florists price based on the cost of stems, greenery, hardgoods, and labor — then apply markup by category. The industry standard is 3-4x markup on perishable stems and 2-2.5x on hardgoods. Clearmargin lets you set markup percentages per material category and calculates arrangement pricing automatically from your recipes.
Florists need to track perishable inventory costs, vendor payments, mileage, and event profitability — but they do not need double-entry accounting. A tool that combines recipe costing, vendor tracking, invoicing, and tax exports is more useful than a general ledger. Clearmargin covers all of these without requiring accounting knowledge.
Floral designers need software that handles recipe costing with markup cascades, event proposals with multiple arrangements, vendor tracking, and milestone-based payments. Most tools cover only one of these. Clearmargin connects all of them so your arrangement costs flow into proposals, proposals become projects, and you see your true margin per event.
Track material costs by recording purchases from each wholesaler and assigning costs per stem or per bunch. Organize materials into categories (stems, greenery, hardgoods, rentals) with category-level markup. Clearmargin maintains your cost data and updates arrangement pricing automatically when you adjust ingredient costs.