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Opening and Closing Checklist for Your Flower Shop

A missed morning checklist can mean a walk-in customer finds empty buckets, a cooler at the wrong temperature, or florists without their assignments for the day. A missed evening checklist can mean wasted flowers, a security incident, or a payroll error. Building consistent routines — and running them from a shared app — is one of the lowest-cost ways to raise your shop's quality and reduce owner stress.


Morning Opening Checklist

  • Arrange the window display and top up buckets with fresh water.

  • Check the cooler temperature — it should be between 2 °C and 5 °C.

  • Pull up today's orders and prep the work stations for each florist.

  • Assign tasks to florists in the app so everyone knows their priorities for the day.

  • Check WhatsApp and Instagram for overnight orders — add them to the queue before the first walk-in arrives.

  • Brief the team: any deliveries, special compositions, or VIP clients today.

Evening Closing Checklist

  • Move cut flowers from the display into the cooler to protect them overnight.

  • Check the cooler temperature one more time and log it.

  • Water showroom plants and remove any wilted stems from buckets.

  • Reconcile the cash drawer and close out the day's orders in the app.

  • Turn off non-essential lights, set the alarm, and lock up.

Peak Days: Valentine's Day and March 8

On Valentine's Day and March 8 your order volume can jump 3–5x overnight. The shops that handle the surge without chaos are the ones running everything from a shared task list — from pre-orders assembled the evening before to delivery routes organised by neighbourhood. Assign each florist their station, pin the courier schedule to the app, and your team knows exactly what to do from the moment they walk in.

Want to run your flower shop from a single shared checklist? CosaNostra florist software lets you assign tasks by voice, track orders from WhatsApp and Instagram, and calculate piece-rate pay automatically — free forever for teams of up to 2.


Managing orders across WhatsApp, Instagram and walk-ins gets easier with a purpose-built system. See how florists use CRM for florist business to centralise every order, shift, and delivery photo in one shared view.

 
 
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