A garden centre might sell bedding plants in spring, furniture in summer, gifts at Christmas and breakfast in the café all year round. Storefront™ is designed to support that mix without forcing the business into separate systems.
Garden centres have truly become destination businesses. Customers might arrive for compost and plants, stay for lunch, browse gifts and return later in the year for Christmas decorations or outdoor furniture.
That variety is good for trade, but it creates a lot to manage. Stock moves between indoor and outdoor areas. Weather changes demand. Plant ranges are seasonal. Bulky items may be collected later or delivered. The café has its own requirements for the preparation of food and drinks, staff, and reporting.
Objective: The customer experiences one visit. The team behind the scenes needs a system that can keep the whole operation clear, department by department.
Manage goods-in, transfers, stock takes and fast-changing plant ranges across indoor and outdoor areas.
Support gifts, homeware, tools, pet, furniture, Christmas and lifestyle ranges from the same platform.
Run hospitality alongside retail, with tables, tabs, kitchen printing, service charge and Pay-at-Table.
Plant retailing comes with its own kind of product management. The same garden centre may handle seasonal bedding, shrubs, trees, houseplants, compost, tools, and garden care products, often sourced from a wide supplier base.
Keep plant, garden and lifestyle products organised with clear department structures.
Support clear product labelling, pricing and barcode use across the shop floor.
Manage purchase information and supplier-led ranges more consistently.
Understand performance across plants, gifts, café, furniture and seasonal ranges.
Trading can change quickly in Garden Centres and Plant Nurseries. A sunny weekend can move stock fast. A wet spring can slow plant sales. Christmas can turn part of the site into a completely different retail operation.
Storefront™ helps teams keep product, stock and reporting information close to hand when the business is at its busiest.
Receive stock more consistently as deliveries arrive.
Move items between stock areas, benches, displays and branches.
Use handhelds to make stock counts more practical.
See what is selling by department, branch or season.
Garden centres often sell in seasons and for occasions: spring planting, summer furniture, autumn bulbs, Christmas decorations, gifts, trees and café offers. Promotions need to be easy for staff to apply and clear for customers at the till.
Create offers around spring, Christmas, gardening events or clearance ranges.
Support simple promotions across plants, compost, pots or gift ranges.
Give customers a practical reason to return or gift the garden centre experience.
Make internal discounts easier to apply consistently.
For many retailers, the café or restaurant is no longer an add-on. It gives people a reason to visit outside peak gardening months, increases dwell time and helps turn the centre into a year-round destination.
Storefront™ supports hospitality workflows alongside retail, including table service, kitchen printing, Pay-at-Table and clear reporting between the shop and café.
Garden centres need systems that work together: payments, accounts, marketing, e-commerce, shelf-edge labels, customer accounts and reporting.
Storefront™ is designed to give retailers more choice, so the EPOS can fit around the business rather than the other way round.
See how independent retailers are using Storefront™ to connect tills, scales, payments, stock, reporting and customer service across busy, real-world operations. From plant centres to farm shops and department stores, these stories show how our system supports the way modern retailers actually trade.
Yes. Storefront™ supports retail and hospitality workflows, including tables, kitchen printing, service charge and integrated payments.
Yes. You can understand performance across areas such as plants, gifts, café, furniture, seasonal ranges and branches.
Yes. Storefront™ includes tools for stock control, goods-in, transfers, stock takes and reporting, which are especially useful during seasonal peaks.
EPOS Cubed believes retailers should have a choice. Storefront supports several payment integrations and continues to develop more options.
We would be happy to talk through how Storefront™ could support your shop floor, plant areas, café, stock, payments and reporting.
