BloomOps

Inventory management system for florists — track stock, manage products, record shipments, fulfill orders, and monitor financials from one dashboard.

Observed

Built for my father's flower shop — a family business running for over sixty years, where inventory had always been tracked by memory, handwritten notes, and habit.

Built

Product inventory with cost & sell pricing · Supplier management · Shipment recording · Customer order management · Low-stock alerts · Dashboard KPIs · Reports

Live App Back to overview

BloomOps — Dashboard activity showing recent orders, shipments, and live business KPIs

Origin

My father has run a flower shop in Šibenik for over sixty years. When I started looking at how the business actually operated, I found that inventory had never been tracked in any system — not even a spreadsheet. Stock levels lived in memory. Supplier orders were negotiated by phone and logged on scraps of paper. The shape of the month's profit wasn't known until the month was over.

This wasn't carelessness. It was a system that had worked well enough for decades. But it meant that nothing was visible at a glance, and nothing could be handed to anyone else without losing continuity. I built BloomOps to fix that — for him first, and for florists generally.

Solution

BloomOps is an all-in-one operations tool built specifically for flower shop owners. It brings products, suppliers, shipments, orders, and financial reporting into a single authenticated interface, keeping the full picture of the business visible at a glance — without requiring the owner to carry that picture in their head.

Core features

Auth and protected routes
Product inventory with SKU, cost & sell pricing, and stock quantity
Supplier management with contact details
Shipment recording to increase stock levels
Customer order management (draft → confirmed → fulfilled)
Low-stock alerts and minimum stock thresholds
Dashboard with live KPIs — stock value, gross profit, monthly sales
Reports: stock by category, top-selling products, monthly sales & profit tables

Workflow

Add suppliers and products
Record incoming shipments to update stock
Create customer orders and track fulfilment status
Monitor dashboard for stock value and gross profit
Review reports for top sellers and monthly trends

Screenshots

BloomOps — Login — authenticated entry with email — Login — authenticated entry with email

BloomOps — Dashboard activity — recent orders, shipments, and live KPIs at a glance — Dashboard activity — recent orders, shipments, and live KPIs at a glance

BloomOps — Dashboard — live KPIs for stock value, gross profit, and monthly sales — Dashboard — live KPIs for stock value, gross profit, and monthly sales

BloomOps — Product inventory — full catalogue with cost, sell price, and stock levels — Product inventory — full catalogue with cost, sell price, and stock levels

BloomOps — Add product — standardised form layout used across all entity types — Add product — standardised form layout used across all entity types

BloomOps — Orders — track fulfilment status from draft through completion — Orders — track fulfilment status from draft through completion

BloomOps — New order — line items with automatic price calculation — New order — line items with automatic price calculation

BloomOps — Suppliers — contact details and linked shipment history — Suppliers — contact details and linked shipment history

BloomOps — Shipments — incoming stock updates that flow into inventory — Shipments — incoming stock updates that flow into inventory

BloomOps — Reports — stock by category, top sellers, and monthly profit tables — Reports — stock by category, top sellers, and monthly profit tables

What I learned

Domain constraints sharpen design. Building “inventory management” in the abstract would have been a features list. Building it for a florist forced specific decisions: perishable stock, seasonal ordering, cost-vs-sell margins on arrangements.
Model the entity graph before writing components. Products linked to suppliers, suppliers to shipments, shipments updating stock, stock consumed by orders — getting that wrong would have meant rewriting half the app.
A summary screen transforms perceived value. The dashboard KPIs are recalculated live. The moment I added them, the app went from feeling like a data entry tool to feeling like a business tool.
Standardise forms early. Eight different CRUD forms that each looked slightly different would have felt like eight different apps.

Next steps

Real florist feedback and workflow validation
Multi-user / team access
Invoice and receipt generation
Low-stock email notifications