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QuickBooks bookkeeping for florists

A florist's spending often starts at the flower market before the shop opens, paid by card or cash with a receipt that's easy to lose, while weddings and account customers pay on timetables of their own. We bring those market receipts into QuickBooks, keep each event order together and keep what account customers owe in front of you until it's paid.

  • By Book Keeping Pros
  • Sources checked 15 Oct 2026

Market runs, events and accounts in QuickBooks

We follow your market spending into QuickBooks, and each larger order from its deposit to the payment that settles it.

  • Flower market and grower receipts snapped at the stall using the mobile app for QuickBooks, or emailed in later, then matched in For review to the card purchase behind them, or turned into a new expense when you paid cash
  • Each wedding or large event given its own project under the couple or client, if the QuickBooks plan you're on includes projects, so the invoices, stems, foliage, vases and hire bills for it sit together
  • Orders paid ahead for delivery on a later date tracked against the order until it's delivered, cancelled or refunded, using the treatment your accountant specifies
  • Standing arrangements for hotels, restaurants and corporate foyers invoiced on account, then followed in the A/R ageing detail report, which shows which accounts are behind and by how long
  • Relay network orders sent and received recorded from the network's statement, with its commission booked only where the statement records it, and amounts it doesn't account for sent to you
  • What customers pay for delivery recorded on its own income line, with van running and courier costs on expense accounts of their own, so you can see whether delivery charges cover the cost of making deliveries
  • The shop's statements for each bank account and card set against QuickBooks every month, with any difference traced to a settlement not yet cleared, a keying slip, or a mistake on the bank's side that you query with them

Not included

Quoting event flowers and running your ordering website or point of sale remain your side of things. We work from the orders, receipts and statements they produce.

Businesses in Flower Retailing (ANZSIC class 4274)

Actively trading businesses across Australia
2,690 businessesAustralian Bureau of Statistics, Counts of Australian Businesses, June 2025, checked 15 October 2026
Of those, classified as non-employing
1,307 businessesAustralian Bureau of Statistics, Counts of Australian Businesses, June 2025, checked 15 October 2026
Of those, with 1 to 4 employees
1,032 businessesAustralian Bureau of Statistics, Counts of Australian Businesses, June 2025, checked 15 October 2026

Businesses by main state or territory

These counts are for the ANZSIC class Flower Retailing, which covers flowers sold through shops, including florists that also take online orders. Flower sellers that trade only online, without a shop, are counted in the non-store retailing class, so they are not in these counts.

  1. New South Wales972 businesses
  2. Victoria860 businesses
  3. Queensland410 businesses
  4. Western Australia202 businesses
  5. South Australia153 businesses
  6. Tasmania46 businesses
  7. Australian Capital Territory40 businesses
  8. Northern Territory7 businesses
Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, June 2025. Counts of Australian Businesses, data cube 2: Businesses by main state by industry class by employment size ranges (8165DC02.xlsx). Checked 15 Oct 2026.

Businesses by number of employees

  1. Non-employing1,307 businesses
  2. 1 to 4 employees1,032 businesses
  3. 5 to 19 employees317 businesses
  4. 20 to 199 employees33 businesses
  5. 200 or more employees3 businesses
Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, June 2025. Counts of Australian Businesses, data cube 2: Businesses by main state by industry class by employment size ranges (8165DC02.xlsx). Checked 15 Oct 2026.

Florists' questions about QuickBooks

I buy at the flower market before sunrise. What happens to those receipts?
Photograph every receipt on your phone using the QuickBooks app while you're still at the market, or email it in afterwards. It lands in For review, and from there we pair it with your card purchase, or create an expense from it if you paid cash. Card purchases missing a receipt are listed for you each month.
Can a wedding show what its flowers cost?
It can, if projects are on your plan. The wedding becomes a project under the couple, its invoices and purchases are added to that project, and the project report then puts the wedding's income beside what you spent on it. When a market receipt covers stems for the wedding and the shop, tell us the wedding's share and we put just that part on the project.
Customers pay well before delivery day. How is that money handled?
We track it against the order until the flowers go out, and a refund on a cancelled order is traced back to the payment it reverses. Your accountant decides how money paid ahead is treated, and you get a running list of orders paid for but not yet delivered.
Our hotel and restaurant accounts pay late. Can QuickBooks show who's behind?
Yes. Their invoices feed the accounts receivable ageing reports, which show each account's outstanding total and how overdue each invoice is. We send you the detail each month, so you know which accounts to call before the next arrangement goes out.
How are relay network orders recorded?
From the network's statement. Orders you send out and orders you fill for other florists are recorded with the commission the statement shows, and the statement's balance is checked against what has passed between you and the network. Any amount the statement doesn't explain goes back to you to query.

Sources

  1. Counts of Australian Businesses, data cube 2: Businesses by main state by industry class by employment size ranges (8165DC02.xlsx)

    Australian Bureau of Statistics. Actively trading businesses at 30 June 2025, released 16 December 2025. Checked 15 October 2026.

    Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Counts of Australian Businesses, including Entries and Exits, June 2021 to June 2025, licensed under CC BY 4.0 Licence: CC BY 4.0.

  2. Correspondence, GCCSA 2021 to GCCSA 2026 (CG_GCCSA_2021_GCCSA_2026.csv)

    Australian Bureau of Statistics. ASGS Edition 4, July 2026 to June 2031, released 22 July 2026. Checked 15 October 2026.

    Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Australian Statistical Geography Standard (ASGS) Edition 4, licensed under CC BY 4.0 Licence: CC BY 4.0.

  3. Greater Capital City Statistical Areas digital boundary file, 2026 (GCCSA_2026_AUST_SHP_GDA2020.zip)

    Australian Bureau of Statistics. ASGS Edition 4, July 2026 to June 2031, released 22 July 2026. Checked 15 October 2026.

    Based on Australian Bureau of Statistics data, Australian Statistical Geography Standard (ASGS) Edition 4, licensed under CC BY 4.0 Licence: CC BY 4.0.

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    QuickBooks is a trademark of Intuit Inc. Licence: Intuit Australia legal terms (facts quoted with attribution, no endorsement implied).

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