Business Types · Retail

Flower Shop.

Orders, deliveries, and holidays handled — POS that survives Valentine's Day.

Built For You, Configured By Us.

Phone and web orders, delivery routing, and deposit handling for events and weddings.

Card-on-file makes corporate accounts effortless.

  • Inventory & barcode managementTrack thousands of SKUs, matrix items by size and color, and manage receiving, counts, and shrink from the same screen your staff already uses.
  • Gift cards & loyalty built inBranded gift cards and loyalty programs turn one-time shoppers into regulars — set up and running without a separate vendor or extra hardware.
  • eCommerce sync availableKeep brick-and-mortar and online inventory in lockstep with WooPOS-style sync, so you sell one catalog everywhere without overselling stock.
  • Multi-location reportingRoll up sales, margin by category, and dead-stock reporting across every store, with per-location user permissions and one consolidated view.
Flower Shop
The day-to-day

What It’s Really Like To Run A Flower Shop.

Floristry is perishable-inventory math with an artist’s deadline. Stems come in Monday and are compost by Sunday, so every buy is a bet on the week’s weddings, funerals, and walk-ins. Then the holidays hit: Valentine’s Day and Mother’s Day can each do a normal month’s volume in three days, with drivers threading Dallas / Ft. Worth traffic on delivery runs that all promise “before 5 p.m.” You’re a designer, a logistics manager, and a therapist for panicked last-minute husbands, often in the same hour.

Payments in a flower shop are strange by retail standards. Half your orders arrive by phone, which means keyed-in cards at higher rates and more risk. Wire services take their cut of incoming orders before you ever touch the money. A funeral home account wants an invoice, a bride wants a deposit now and a balance in June, and on February 15th you desperately need the holiday’s receipts in the bank — not sitting in a two-day settlement window.

Keyed-in phone orders typically cost a florist 0.5–1% more per transaction than tapped cards — on holiday volume, that difference is real money.

Where Payments Hurt

  • Phone orders mean keyed-in cards at higher card-not-present rates
  • Holiday spikes create a cash crunch while settlements lag behind wire payouts
  • Wedding deposits and balances need invoicing, not just a countertop terminal
  • One terminal can’t handle the counter, the phone, and the website at once

How Lone Star Fixes It

  • Clover at the counter plus a virtual terminal for phone orders, all on one account
  • Same day funding so Valentine’s receipts hit your bank before the flower market bill does — see how same day funding works
  • Biller Genie invoicing for wedding deposits, event balances, and funeral home house accounts
  • A free statement review to untangle wire-service fees from processing fees — most florists have never seen them side by side

Flower Shop Owners Ask Us

How fast can I get my Valentine’s Day money?

With same day funding, batches settled by the cutoff land in your account the same business day. For a florist who just did a month of volume in 72 hours, that’s the difference between paying the wholesaler comfortably and floating it.

Are phone orders riskier for chargebacks?

Yes — keyed transactions carry more fraud and dispute exposure than chip or tap. Capturing AVS and CVV on every phone order, and using a proper virtual terminal, cuts both your rate and your risk. Our chargebacks guide covers the rest.

Do you support shops here in Dallas / Ft. Worth directly?

Lone Star Payments is based in Dallas / Ft. Worth, and our reps work with DFW florists in person. When Mother’s Day week arrives, you have a local number to call — not a national help desk reading a script.

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Ready To See It In Action?

Call (214) 838-1818 and a specialist will walk you through the right setup for your business — and ask about up to $5,000 to upgrade your POS.

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