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Curate helps me keep a close eye on material costs and helps me determine areas I'm overspending.
This software can tend to run slow at times and the quantities pre installed are sometimes confusing or need to be changed.
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This has been a very easy software to get into and is helping us stream line our process flow!
Kommentare: Streamlining of process flow and money saving due to eliminating the need for other software packages
Vorteile:
The software is very intuitive and easy to use. It is allowing us to replace three different pieces of software we have been using and subscribing to, as we get all the functionality and perks all in one package. It is also helping us to stream line the quoting process with being able to do multiple functions within the software and allows us to send a very professional looking proposal to our clients. The support response and tuition is the best I have received from purchasing a piece of Software! It real is first class!
Nachteile:
The label on the email notification that is sent through from the web pay option makes it hard to tie up which project has been paid for. Sarah is working on a fix for this!
Antwort von Curate
vor 7 Jahren
Thank you Bramble & Bee, LLC. It is a pleasure working with you as well! It's been the goal of Ularas to help fellow designers do exactly this. And for entrepreneurs to have a better time running their studios than I did when I had my flower shop! There had to be a better way. And so there is. Thank you again for your support and your kind words. We are so appreciative! Team Ularas
Can't imagine working without it!
Kommentare: We probably use Curate differently than the majority of your users. We use it for daily arrangements created in a retail flower shop, as well as events. The daily use is amazing. I can have floral designers who do no know anything about the cost of flowers, and they can create arrangements that are spot on for the value. This means I don't have to babysit the designers to make sure they aren't "stuffing" their arrangements and it allows me to feel very confident about my margins and bottom line.
Vorteile:
What I like the most about the software is how customizable it is to our exact needs. There seems to be limitless ways to tune it to work for you! Using Curate also gives us confidence in our pricing and value of product - this is so important especially now with price fluctuations being an enormous challenge. Using Curate ensures we are always creating our arrangements and events to value, while constantly keeping an eye on our costs.
Nachteile:
There is a bit of a learning curve and some time investment to get it configured exactly so. I know for sure I am under-utilizing the software, just from a lack of time to work within. Some features are a little buried, and others are a little clunky. But it is the best option I have used to date.
Way too much money for what is provided
Kommentare:
Things started off great! After trying Caterease, which felt archaic in comparison. Though the pricing was about the same as Caterease, the functionality and UI were better so I transitioned over to Curate. They were a small company, and very receptive to my feedback and needs, and quick to implement some of the suggestions I had. I got to know the [sensitive content hidden]
, and was even asked to be a customer testimonial to their venture capitalists when they were expanding. Then changes started. The once easily-navigable UI started getting clunkier. Things stopped working as well as they did before. Their updates were more like bugs. All the while, I'm still paying $3400 a year for degrading software. Then, as I mentioned above, I stopped receiving inquiries. Noticed after a few days that business wasn't coming in. What's wrong, I asked? Apparently, there's an annual quota of inquiries they allow into your account. Once you've hit that quota, you have to pay them more! They literally turned off my business and essentially shut my business down without notice or hesitation, and PUNISHED me for being successful. Absolutely unacceptable, and I found another software (Honeybook!) that same day, and transitioned within a week. Saved myself $3000 a year, and have had zero regrets or complaints.
Vorteile:
Curate had an attractive and professional UI that made our previous software obsolete.
Nachteile:
The fact that they charge you per inquiry/file you create. I was paying $3400 a year for their service, and you get a limited amount of inquiries with your subscription, I believe it was 200 new inquiries. Even if you have to decline the inquiry, it counts towards your quota. So, as a caterer with a busy summer, I could get 10 inquiries for 1 day and only be able to accept 2 of them, but now I've used 1/20th of my annual count for a single day's worth of inquiries. Want to add more? It's going to cost you $200 more for 100 more slots. I moved to honeybook, and pay 1/10 of the annual price for unlimited inquiries. Shame on you, Curate.
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I am obsessed with Curate
Kommentare: I love curate and how it's saved my business so much money. It's also helped diversify my flower choices. If you could also make it possible to search for flowers by color palette that would be awesome.
Vorteile:
I love the stem counting and how easy it is to put together a recipe. The proposals are beautiful. I like the payment section too because it's pretty easy and self explanatory.
Nachteile:
I desperately need client management for emails. I can't keep track of them so having a section where it's in the client portal including emails back and forth is imperative. Also updating the flower library would be good too since there's new things like dried flowers starting to come out.
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Curate is a member of the team!
Kommentare: We've been nothing but pleased with our Curate experience. Onboarding was thorough and the system easy to use. The biggest impact Curate continues to make for us is in time. Proposals, shopping lists and recipe writing used to add up to anywhere from 8-10 hours per event. With Curate, we average around an hour and a half, regardless of event size.
Vorteile:
Curate has become as important a member of our wedding team as our wholesale department and designers! It allows us to create proposals in a fraction of the time it previously took that are beautiful, transparent and informative.We currently produce between 150 and 170 weddings per year but would recommend Curate even if we did far less for the time savings alone.
Nachteile:
We create a production binder for each and every event. Currently, we have to do some hand cutting and pasting to get the best layout for our designers. We would love to be able to click a button and have that all generated for us.
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Best Decision I Made For My Business
Kommentare: Bloomtrac has been great and saves me so much time. Its easy to use and keeps all event info organized. I am in love with bloomtrac...been with you from the beginning when it was ularas. I don’t use all of the functions but the ones I do have been a game changer. And being able to produce proposals and contracts right at the consultation has made my life SO much easier and increased same day bookings by 100%. Bc before bloomtrac I never got same day bookings bc I had to go back and put all my notes together, now I input everything at consultation. I created a reusable template with the typical info and just plug in the specific details as we discuss their events. I ❤️ Bloomtrac!!!
Vorteile:
It automates proposal writing, allows me to write proposals at the time if consultation which increases sales.
Nachteile:
I wish I could add optional items at the end in a separate section after the totals. Other than that it pretty much meets all of my needs.
My clients love the format of my proposals!
Kommentare: Sometimes I consider the monthly payment to be a lot since I am a small merchant. But, Curate allows me to do many things without having additional employees.
Vorteile:
It's like having an administrative assistant 24 hours a day. Curate (formerly steam counter) allows me to work on my proposals faster, with attention to every detail. My clients love being able to see photos of the items and decoration items included in their proposal.
Nachteile:
I have to work better the distribution of photos in categories and update the products. Sometimes photos take time to upload. It would be nice to be able to work without internet and update after having connection.
Can't live w/o Curate!
Kommentare: Super happy with the customer service and the platform. I would recommend 100% :)
Vorteile:
Curate is easy to use and they are always trying to make updates and the system more efficient. The program makes the business side more systematic and less emotional when you are pricing your items. this results in more money in your pocket ;) My clients love the overall look and clarity it provides so I am always meeting their expectations.
Nachteile:
I wish I could add more pictures to the recipe. I wish it were integrated with QB so I would not have to re-enter numbers for my bookkeeper. Once in a while there is something glitchy, but you guys are always fast to solve the problem.
Operational Time cuts down significantly
Kommentare: Forever indebted to this system and company. A great groupo
Vorteile:
I absolutely loved this B2C software. The ability to create mood boards, preset templates for emails & quotes, being able to capture customer general information from website to system, keep track of inventory and budget, and receive payment definitely saved time, money, and perishable waste. It absolutely got my business on the right track and I advocate every floral business who does wedding & events to invest in Curate! It will alleviate so much of the headache and complexities of the production, so that you have more time to work on your business rather than in it.
Nachteile:
I really didn't have any cons. Over time, I have seen significant improvements and I applaud that.
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Curate is a game changer
Kommentare: Oh my gosh, the time it saves, it puts together shopping lists, recipes, hardgood lists, does all of the math, and so much more!
Vorteile:
I cannot say enough great things about Curate! It has 100 percent changed my life and my business! All of the amazing features save me months worth of time! I can't imagine running my business without it! I have used their software since it was first released, and it keeps me ahead of my competition.
Nachteile:
Occasionally there are a few glitches that are fixed immediately.
BEST EVENT FLORAL SOFTWARE ON THE MARKET
Kommentare: It’s been a wonderful trip. It’s by far the best investment I made in my company. When I first started I spend 4-6 hours trying to figure out how to make a gorgeous proposal. And that was just the proposal. Getting word to work, sizing and moving photos around, fighting with text to be where I wanted it to be. It was the worst. After two proposals I knew something had to change. Little did I know how easy Curate would make the whole process including stem oh tings and placing orders. It’s truly amazing, and the customer service is awesome. I’ve become almost friends with the employees and owner, because they are so easily accessible and active. Over the years I have “played” with other software that friends use, and none have such a straight forward interface, that is almost intuitive to use, or come with the amount of tools and services Curate provides.
Vorteile:
Everything! I love the beautiful proposals it creates effortlessly, I love how easy it is to create recipes, and order flowers with a couple clicks of a button. It does ALL their heavy lifting for you. I can pump out a quick proposal in 15-30 minutes or spend hours on one searching for the perfect photos on Pinterest creating a visual masterpiece, but in the end, what the software does is always fast and easy. I love that they are always updating and adding more amazing features.
Nachteile:
I use it on my iphone 99% of the time, and it works pretty good, there are some features that work better in chrome and I’d love for those features to work well in safari. I’m sure that will be coming soon
Floral Game Changer
Kommentare:
I had been complaining and whining about the lack of product on the market to help me run my business. I needed a way to make a beautiful proposal and do the numbers for ordering and pricing at the same time. Stemcounter has done this in spades. It took a very menacing task, which would take me hours and has cut it down to a matter of minutes. The best part, is that the time saved is not just on the proposal side, or stem counting side - it's also in ordering, being able to reallocate tasks to employees, and customer transparency.
Ryan has taken the time to talk to me in depth about changes and updates, and implemented so many of them. I cannot honestly imagine how my business would be running without it at this point.
Vorteile:
Ease of use, low learning curve to get the hang of, constant updates on the back end that keep the frontend user experience running smoothly, and easy in which the customer sees the final product.
Nachteile:
The only complaint I have is in the recipe section. To print out the arrangement recipes to hand to my employees, it takes a lot of paper, as one recipe prints per sheet. I'd love if there were a smaller version of this that took less paper - but that is only because I try to be as paper conscious as possible.
Antwort von Curate
vor 8 Jahren
Thanks so much Kelly!! You've provided such great feedback on the product that has helped us continue to move forward. We are in the process of upgrading our recipe sheet and hopefully we should provide something that will make it easier on you!
A great product for florists!
Kommentare: Being able to order for multiple events is a huge help. I had gone with Curate for that reason but then the cost went up. Bloomtrac includes all of the features in one price and as new features are added, the price stays the same.
Vorteile:
I have tried a number of different software and at first Bloomtrac seemed intimidating. There is a learning curve with all of these products but [SENSITIVE CONTENT HIDDEN] was incredibly responsive and helped me get up and running as quickly as possible. When I left Curate, I knew I would have to rewrite all of my proposals in Bloomtrac. What I hadn't anticipated-and hadn't been informed of, was that the proposals I had emailed to clients and to myself would disappear. Fortunately I had printed everything . One of the many things I love about Bloomtrac is the ability to truly customize the look of my proposals. This hadn't been possible with Curate.
Nachteile:
I am a slow learner when it comes to technology and there is a lot to learn here- with new features on the horizon as well. Looking forward to being able to take the time now that wedding season is slowing down to really get a grasp on all that this software has to offer.
Product is great...support is amazing
Kommentare: It's transformed our business. We are utilizing more and more features and have great expectations that it will deliver even more value as we take better advantages of all it offers.
Vorteile:
We have loved Curate for the 6+ years we have used it, but just recently have begun digging deeper into features and seeking assistance from the great team in support. They have helped us open up many new functions and features. They are really awesome. AND SO SO timely in their response times.
Nachteile:
We struggled to intuitively discern some functionality. The team was helpful. I don't know how to make it better myself. But there were a few things we would have loved to have just worked it out without calling in.
Life Saving Software
Vorteile:
As a busy florist, I love that my quotes are at my fingertips on any device, I can easily access payment records, phone numbers, mood boards & my calendar. I love that it formulates all of my pricing and eliminates any guess work, and the shopping lists and Game plans are amazing!
Nachteile:
The only thing is that I cannot have my forms returned to an additional email address. I do have a couple of wedding venues that gather all of the clients information and then deliver it to each vendor as a package, so it would have been great to give them a form that could be returned to both their email address as well as mine.
Revolutionary
Kommentare: We are just LOVING Stem Counter. We are a weddings and events floral company (no daily deliveries) and we hand write our proposal and make meticulous spreadsheets to order our flowers which can get pretty complicated when ordering for five events in one weekend. Stem Counter is more or less going to change our lives. I think we have had daily freak outs about new features we are discovering and realizing will be insane game changers. Honestly. It's taking the tedious out of proposal writing and the rest of our designers are actually sounding excited to write proposals for clients (what!). So many amazing ways that this program will change how we do things in all the best ways and save us so much time and money. We are all extremely happy that we jumped in on this and that it exists at all. It is absolutely going to be revolutionary for us and the floral industry in general and we can't thank Ryan and the Stem Counter team enough for all the hard work that has been put into this. We hadn't even got to a point where we had used all the features in real life scenarios (like preparing a flower order or printing recipe sheets) and we were already singing their praises to fellow designers. Hah!! We 100% recommend giving Stem Counter a try. It's easy to learn and use and will be insanely beneficial to your business.
Vorteile:
How much time it saves and the reduction of human error. Love the recipe building and that it does all the math for me. Love that I can do flower orders and supply orders with just one simple click!
Nachteile:
No major complaints. We notice a few things that could be better, but the exciting thing about it is that it's constantly being updated and made better and the Stem Counter team is always taking notes on anything we mention.
EXCELLENT customer service, prompt and very helpful. Anytime I need somrthing they are right there.
Vorteile:
The ability to produce a recipe for my bridal bouquets. It saves a ton of time. I also love the flower library and that all my flowers are in there with their cost. Plus, it creates beautiful looking proposals that my Brides love and mobile friendly is huge! Brides love to open the proposal up right away and look on their mobile device.
Nachteile:
It is difficult when anytime you make a change it creates a new version of the proposal. With some weddings we have 20-30 changes from the time they first meet with us to the end so it gets a bit daunting to have that many versions. Also trying to mark and item as paid and having to create a new version of the proposal.
Antwort von Curate
vor 6 Jahren
Thanks so much Sarah! We've loved that we've been able to make things so much better for you. Totally understand the headache of clients who need so many versions of the proposals. Would love to hear if you have any ideas on how to keep up with so many changes without having to keep up with different versions reflecting them.
I can not do my work with out Curate!
Kommentare: I have everything for my business in one place! I don't need 50 folders for clients, I don't need spread sheet of prices for each flower. Its all here. I went from hand writing proposals, that took 2 + hours for a simple $1000 wedding. and It wasn't even enough information to satisfy me, let alone a clint with no flower knowledge. Curate changed that!! Its all there!!
Vorteile:
What do I like the most? The responses I get from potential clients. POTENTIAL!! They are amazed at my proposals. I had a client last week email me, just to say I had the best looking and easy to understand proposal out of all the venders, not just the florist!!
Nachteile:
I'm not sure if there is a least! OK, how about this, I have to look up the hex codes each time. I wish they were saved.
Makes floral design more mathematical and paperwork more finished looking.
Kommentare: Like I said it helps me keep everything in one place that I can access from any computer. It helps me maintain my margins
Vorteile:
Helps me to realize how much I am spending on product, so helps me mantain my margins. Love having flower library and also able to insert items in the library. Also like the side, the client sees, it is all the same logo and has a professional cohesive
Nachteile:
If you email a client and it doesn't go through, you have no way of knowing. Also you can not go into an order and reassign a vendor.
Antwort von Curate
vor 7 Jahren
Hi Anne! Thanks for reviewing Ularas! I'm thrilled your margins are improving. That was a huge help when I was running my business as well. You can actually go in and reassign an item on an order to another vendor. I'll email you instructions! I'm glad you like the professional layout. We are just about to launch a suite of customization options so that you can modify the layout of the client pdf. I'll announce after final testing, hopefully this week!
Curate Rocks
Kommentare: The overall experience with curate has been great. I've been with the company for a while and you've done a great job in updating the software, making it easier on us. The customer support is a also a tremendous plus. Any question or concern I've had has been addressed and it a very timely manner. It's also great to have a company listen to the customers feedback and suggestions on what might be great to be added.
Vorteile:
This software gives me the ability to quickly develop a proposal, even when I'm in the middle of a consultation with a client.
Nachteile:
There aren't many drawbacks to the software at the current moment. It is meeting all of my needs at this time.
Antwort von Curate
vor 6 Jahren
Awe! Thanks Melissa! It's been great having you on board and giving feedback. We love that we've made such an impact!
An amazing system, super helpful for Wedding Proposals.
Vorteile:
I love this software a lot, and so do my customers! I have been doing this for years and I don't know how I ever did it without Curate! It's so easy for me to use and put together proposals. I also love how I can update and send it again with changes, but still go back and see past versions so if I make a mistake it is easy to fix. Its seriously an amazing system I love how customizable it is and I would definitely recommend it.
Nachteile:
The only thing I could complain about is that the site sometimes take a bit of time to load pictures and pages. Its not horrible but it can be a bit annoying sometimes.
One of the most important tools in our repertoire
Kommentare: With so many events happening week-to-week, Curate helps keep us from over ordering. Our team can all access our proposals from anywhere for reference when speaking with our clients.
Vorteile:
Our team uses Curate every single day to manage our events. It makes our workflow so streamlined and organized. I can't imagine writing proposals any other way.
Nachteile:
I wish it were easier to add and update flowers to our "inventory". Prices and stem counts tend to change so frequently, we have to be sure to double check our orders and prices everytime. Also, the multiple recipe function always has issues when inputing an order.
Helped streamline my business
Kommentare:
This software has helped streamline my business in several areas including writing proposals and recipes, to ordering. I used to spend hours completing these tasks and Curate has significantly reduced the amount of time I spend on those alone. Time is money, as they say and the time saved through this software is where the biggest value comes into play.
Curate is easy to use, has terrific customer support and has simplified my POS process as customers are able to electronically sign the contract and make a payment using their cell phone, iPad or computer.
Curate continually seeks to add features that make my job easier.
Vorteile:
I like that everything is integrated to streamline my business processes. Being able to integrate the library of flowers into my proposals through recipe building while simultaneously creating an order list, event breakdown and cost analysis.
Nachteile:
This software is not 100% compatible with my iPad . I work from my iPad often, but there are many glitches that I have encountered that make it impossible to complete my proposals using my iPad.
Kudos to a fantastic team!
Kommentare: Fantastic! Thank you for your fabulous support over the years and the change over from Bloomtrac/Ularus years ago. .....notes for this form.... 1. it's way too long. 2. we switched form another software that isn't listed but it's a required field to select it... 3. there are too many fields to give star scores on. narrow to a MAX of 4 if you want more people to fill it out.
Vorteile:
Thank you Curate team for being so fabulous as you support all of our small businesses and help with ALLLL the questions!
Nachteile:
Pricing is a little high for the very sporadic use we do. I would LOVE it if we could pay for a "1-6" per year just to crank out that handful, because by the time we pay the full use for the full year, it really isn't cost-effective to do so few, and we run other businesses, that don't allow us much extra time to work on more than a couple a year at this phase of life. That is why [sensitive content hidden] was so kind as to migrate us over to the new version just to "pause" so our data won't be lost when we can resume doing a couple a year in normal operational years.
Could not live without it
Kommentare: I have been working with this software for over two years and they are constantly working to make the product better. At any time if I have a question I know I can reach out to them and have an answer within minutes.
Vorteile:
Curate allows me access, update and share client information from anywhere (with internet). I can share floral proposals, recipes and inspiration images quickly from my phone or computer.
Nachteile:
I would like different levels of authorization. In my perfect world my team could get into the software, see client files and see recipes… But not make adjustments to the proposal.