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The platform built for garden centers and plant nurseries.

Modern and easy-to-use, with landscaper charge accounts, counts from the nursery on a phone, and any plant found by any name.

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Shrubs and perennials in nursery pots on the gravel yard at Country Gardens & Nursery in Heber City, Utah, under signs for the bulk yard, perennials and shrubs

Why choose Rundoo?

Rundoo's point of sale with a garden center sale open, showing an annual flower flat and cedar mulch with per-flat and per-pallet pricing, quantities, and subtotals on each line

Everything your garden center needs, all in one place

01Charge accounts

Bill landscapers on account at their price

The pro on terms and the retail customer at the counter, on one system.

See customer workflows →
A landscaper's customer record in Rundoo showing a 518 dollar balance against a 2,200 dollar credit limit, Tier 2 Landscaper pricing, Net 30 terms, and the aging buckets underneath
  • One rule sets the tier. Contractor lands at 15% off retail without anyone doing the math.
  • The limit is enforced at the register. Charge appears as a tender only when there is credit.
  • Statements where the sales happened. Statement day, finance charges and autopay, no retyping.

02Mobile

Run the nursery from your phone

Prices, stock and counts out where the plants actually are.

The Rundoo Staff app on a phone, listing Japanese maple, boxwood, grape vines and jasmine with price and on-hand stock by location
  • Look anything up from the bench. Price and stock on the phone in your pocket.
  • Count without a clipboard. Counts start blind, so nobody just confirms last month's number.
  • Min and max on every product. Orders draft themselves once stock drops below minimum.

03Plant search

Find any plant by any name

The person you hired last week can say whether you carry it, without walking the yard.

Two product searches in Rundoo: typing hybrida returns the Wave petunias, and typing acer returns the Japanese maples, each with a photo, on-hand count and price
  • Common, botanical or cultivar. Petunia and Petunia x hybrida both reach the same plant.
  • Every barcode on the tag rings the same plant. A product carries as many UPCs as your growers print, so a different tag is not a different item.
  • Filter the way customers shop. Tag deer resistant or full sun, and a photo on every record confirms the match.

Also built in

  • Ring a sale in seconds

    Type a few letters of the name and it's on the ticket. No barcode needed.

  • Sell by any unit

    Buy a flat, sell a pot. Mulch by the yard, seed by the pound.

  • Open a web store this season

    Your products online with the same prices and stock as the counter.

  • Reward repeat customers

    Points earned at checkout, redeemed on the next visit.

  • Ask questions in plain English

    Which plants died, what to reorder, which landscapers stopped buying. See Dooey →

  • Print a label for anything

    Print a barcode label for anything that arrives without one.

  • Post every sale to QuickBooks

    Sales, payments and receivables flow to QuickBooks Online or Desktop. No re-keying.

  • Hold it and take a deposit

    Will calls and special orders with a deposit at the counter.

How this compares

Most are either too general for living inventory or too hard to reach when the season is on.

General retail point of sale

Square · Clover · Shopify · Lightspeed

What they do well

Cheap and quick to set up. Most garden centers start on one.

What they leave to you

  • Charge accounts are an afterthought.
  • No pricing tiers. Contractor discounts get retyped on every line.
  • One unit per item. Buy a flat, sell a pot, do the math yourself.
  • One barcode per SKU. A second grower's tag becomes a second product.

How Rundoo handles it

  • Native charge accounts. Credit limits enforced at the register. Statements and autopay built in.
  • Contractor pricing is a rule. The tier applies itself on every line.
  • Separate units for buying, selling and counting. A flat of eighteen sells as eighteen pots.
  • Every grower's barcode rings the same plant. Different UPCs, one SKU.

See the switch guide

Systems built for the garden trade

NCR Counterpoint · VMX POS · ComCash · Rapid Garden POS

What they do well

Built for the category. In a different decade.

What they leave to you

  • Support costs extra and comes through a dealer.
  • A server to buy, host and patch.
  • Registers only. The yard runs on a clipboard.
  • Hard to learn and slow to use. Every seasonal hire needs training.
  • No new features. Upgrades are a project with a date.

How Rundoo handles it

  • Support is included. You talk to the people who build it.
  • A web app. Counter, greenhouse and phone are one system. No server.
  • Web store, mobile counting and the customer app in one subscription.
  • Modern and easy to use. Ask for any number in plain English.
  • Changes ship continuously. No upgrade project.

See the switch guide

Garden centers and nurseries that love Rundoo

  • The storefront and sunflower murals at Country Gardens & Nursery in Heber City, Utah
    "I think every garden store should have your guys' system. It is like, your system's fantastic."

    McKenzie Mounteer

    Country Gardens & Nursery, Heber City, UT

    Left ComCash · $11,000 a year in fees gone

    Read their story →
  • Pallets of bagged soil and mulch beside the hoop house and garden carts at Christopher's Garden Center
    "It's very easy. It works. It's user friendly. I don't have to train. It just, is there."

    Glenna Christopher

    Christopher's Garden Center, Bethesda, MD

    Left Epicor Eagle · no training needed

  • Seed racks, garden statuary and heron sculptures inside the greenhouse at Rusty Gate Nursery
    "Rundoo can handle the diversity, all the different products and account types and billing quirks that make a place like Rusty Gate what it is."

    Andrea Perkins

    Rusty Gate Nursery & Building Supply, Forks, WA

    Left Square · charge accounts that work

    Read their story →

Ask yourself these questions

Whether or not Rundoo is the answer, these are worth settling before you replace the system at your counter.

01

A customer asks for a Sango-kaku maple. How long before the person you hired last week can say yes or no?

02

The same hydrangea comes in one, three and five gallon from two growers with two barcodes. Is that one plant in your system or six?

03

A landscaper hands you a check for last month. Where does it get applied and how long does that take?

04

A bench of annuals goes leggy and never sells. Which number in your system moves? Who moves it?

05

Your contractor tier is 15% off. Who remembers that at four o'clock on a Saturday in May?

06

It is February and you are committing to grower quantities. What are you looking at when you decide?

If the honest answer is that somebody at your store holds it in their head, the question is not whether software can do it. It is what that person costs you the week they are out sick in May.

Partners for garden centers and nurseries

Leading Pacific Northwest wholesale distributor

Wholesale pet, farm, and lawn & garden distributor

The national association for the horticulture industry

Plant information, care guidance and in-store signage for garden centers

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Frequently asked questions

What is the best POS for a garden center or plant nursery?
The one that treats living inventory, bulk goods and pro accounts as real features. Rundoo is built for independent garden centers and nurseries: plants tracked by variety and pot size, soil sold by the yard, landscaper charge accounts, all in one browser-based system. Our garden center POS buyer's guide compares the field, including the systems we lose to.
Can staff sell plants that have no barcode?
Yes. Most of what a nursery sells never had one. Search finds a plant by common name, botanical name or cultivar, so petunia, Petunia x hybrida and Wave Purple all reach the same items. Anything untagged rings up as a non-stock item at the price you set, or you print your own barcode label for it.
How does Rundoo handle the same plant in several colors, sizes and growers?
Each color and size you carry is its own item with its own price, count and photo. They group as one family, so one search returns the whole set. A Bloodgood Japanese maple runs $129 in a five gallon and $289 in a fifteen. Each item carries every grower's barcode, so a second supplier's tag does not become a second product. More in tracking nursery plants by variety, size and season.
Does Rundoo handle landscaper charge accounts and contractor pricing?
Yes, and they are two different things. A price rule puts the contractor tier on every line. The charge account is a real ledger with a credit limit the register enforces, a statement day, finance charges and autopay. A landscaper settles up at your counter by check, card or ACH. See customer workflows.
Can I sell by the yard, the flat or the pound?
Yes. Purchase, selling and counting units are set separately and the conversion applies every time. Buy soil by the ten-yard truckload and ring 2.5 yards at the counter. A flat of eighteen annuals sells as eighteen pots off one stock number.
What can I do from a phone in the yard?
Look up any price, stock number or customer account. Start a count or receive an order. It all runs in the Rundoo Staff app on your phone. Counts start blind, so a seasonal hire records what is actually on the bench instead of confirming last month's number.
Does Rundoo have a loyalty program?
Yes. Customers earn points at checkout and redeem them on a later visit. It runs at the register with no second app.
Does Rundoo work with QuickBooks?
Yes, for your accounting. Sales, payments and receivables post to QuickBooks Online or Desktop, so the books reconcile without re-keying. Sage works too. QuickBooks POS is a different product. Intuit discontinued it on October 3, 2023, with no support, no payments processing and no security patches. It is one of the systems we migrate from most often. See the QuickBooks POS switch guide.
How much does a garden center or nursery POS cost?
Pricing is scoped to your store, not read off a fixed list: one software subscription plus integrated payments. What you pay depends on locations, registers and the parts of the platform you use. See how Rundoo pricing works, then book a demo for a quote.

See Rundoo in your garden center

Book a demo and we will walk you through how Rundoo works for a garden center or nursery like yours, on the phone or at your store. Bring your hardest question.

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