Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

By Megan Salzano M aintaining a successful flooring retail operation entails meaningful front-end strategies, such as product selection, showroom design and even marketing, but back-end strategies will make or break the business. In order to successfully manage those back-end operations, flooring-specific software is key, experts say.

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 22, 2021

.— Mannington has always enjoyed the reputation of being a leader in styling and design. She and her colleagues Cristen Del Bove and Renee Cannon form one of the strongest design teams in the floor covering industry. The trinity works together to ensure Mannington maintains its styling and design leadership.

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 11, 2024

Hannover, Germany—MeasureSquare, a provider of innovative flooring takeoff estimation solutions, is participating in Domotex 2024. Attendees will have the chance to see a live demo of its best-selling products, such as MeasureSquare Commercial Edition, a flooring takeoff estimating software designed to help users win more bids.

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Floor Covering News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

In fact, according to businessinsider.com , the amount of business software running on traditional, on-site servers shrank to 32% of all enterprise applications heading into the current year. ABCs of cloud-based software. is a browser-based software that can be run on any device with an internet connection. QFloor’s QPro 2.0

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 11, 2024

Las Vegas— Flooring software technology has made leaps and bounds in recent years, with many firms touting advancements meant to support the flooring retailer and distributor in the successful operation of their businesses. Leave a review’ or ‘Just want to see how things are going.’”

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 18, 2024

In flooring, it can be as explosive as developing completely new product formulations that offer consumers features/benefits not previously available—we’re looking at you, WPC. Or it can be as simple as stripping down complexity to give consumers a more intuitive experience—something software/tech firms are getting rather good at.

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Floor Covering News

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Installation-related Software. Flooring products will be judged based on design and/or performance (technology). Flooring products will be judged based on design and/or performance (technology). The post FCNews opens nominations for 2nd FCNnovation Awards appeared first on Floor Covering News. 19/26 issue.

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 11, 2024

Hannover, Germany—MeasureSquare, a provider of innovative flooring takeoff estimation solutions, is participating in Domotex 2024. Attendees will have the chance to see a live demo of its best-selling products, such as MeasureSquare Commercial Edition, a flooring takeoff estimating software designed to help users win more bids.

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Floor Covering News

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

When choosing the right software or ERP for your business, there’s a lot to keep in mind. Knowing where to find every detail and aspect about sales, orders, installations and more not only gives flooring businesses the ability to run more efficiently, but it can also make a business more profitable. Comp-U-Floor.

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Floor Covering News

JULY 12, 2023

As we came out of COVID-19, we went through two amazing years,” Warren told Floor Covering News. Among some of the newer initiatives: making it easy for consumers to go into one of Daltile’s 100-plus showrooms to see product and get design advice. Chris Cosentino, president of Hadinger Flooring in Naples, Fla., Promotions.

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 11, 2020

Robust software systems aim to give specialty flooring dealers a leg up in the business and especially their competition. Flooring-specific software helps to not only manage the day-to-day but also streamline operations as a whole and build business. Following are some of the industry’s top cloud- based software systems.

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Floor Covering News

MAY 10, 2021

—RFMS established b2b connectivity with 52 flooring vendors as of May 1, 2021. The system is designed to allow nearly 900 RFMS clients to connect with many key b2b enabled mills, distributors and tile companies to access product catalogs, invoices, purchase orders, ship notices and web services, according to the company.

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Floor Covering News

DECEMBER 27, 2021

FCNews has announced the winners of its inaugural FCN novation Awards, a new initiative designed to recognize and showcase some of the most innovative new products and technologies in the flooring industry today. Hardwood—(Woodura) Valinge Flooring. Technology/Software—(All-in-One Selling System) Broadlume.

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 17, 2022

By Jacqueline Hinchcliffe—Technology is constantly evolving and updating, which requires new-and-improved software solutions to everyday business tasks in the flooring industry such as tracking leads, checking inventory and even giving customers the ability to try out products in their rooms via room visualizer apps. MeasureSquare.

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Floor Covering News

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Technology and software companies work with one goal in mind—to make life easier for the retailer. At TISE 2021 , tech companies launched software tools and updates designed to streamline a variety of essential tasks. Following is a sampling of some of the new software solutions providers are rolling out. Comp-U-Floor.

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Floor Covering News

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Flooring products will be judged based on design and/or performance (technology). Flooring products will be judged based on design and/or performance (technology). The post Nominations open for inaugural FCNnovation Awards appeared first on Floor Covering News. Installation-related. 20/27 edition of FCNews.

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 29, 2020

Las Vegas—With an official ribbon cutting by QFloors owners Chad and Trent Ogden, the software company launched their new software, QPro POS+. Currently, a significant number of smaller-sized flooring dealers are not benefiting from all the savings technology can bring. For many, the issue has been cost.

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Floor Covering News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

You can also use software that has a client dashboard feature, such as Houzz Pro. Another part of painting a realistic picture is helping clients visualize the design, as it can be hard for non-pros to translate blueprints, tear sheets and samples into a complete image. Software can be a huge help here.

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 10, 2024

In a move that was panned by some flooring retailers, California consumers began paying as much as 36% more for carpet on Jan. The California carpet stewardship legislation (AB 2398, 1159 and 729) is designed to find ways to incentivize the growth of carpet reclamation and recycling and yet still allow the market to work.

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Floor Covering News

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Additionally, the company said the rollout of a redesigned logo, tagline, websites and social media strategy re-enforces the brand that is already extremely well known in the design community. The post Virginia Tile reveals branding refresh appeared first on Floor Covering News.

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Floor Covering News

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Developed from the ground up using industry leading product information management software, the new site includes more than 40 unique search filters, allowing users to locate specific products in just a few simple clicks. The Virginia Tile brand is built on premium products and design, and we wanted to showcase those values.

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Floor Covering News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

operations designed to reaffirm its commitment to excellence, innovation and customer satisfaction. These upgrades will further improve the quality, innovation and design of the company’s products, including enhancement of through-veining porcelain solutions, expansion of color ranges and enhancement of polished finishes.

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Floor Covering News

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The spirit of ‘we’re all in this together’ was reflected in this year’s Floor Covering News Retailers of the Year issue. Floor Covering News then narrowed down the winners based on the scope of the merit attributed to each floor covering retailer. Carpetland USA Flooring Center Sturtevant, Wis.

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Floor Covering News

AUGUST 12, 2020

Three years ago, Retail Lead Management (RLM) hit the market as a first-of-its-kind software system specifically designed to help flooring retailers manage their leads. For Mindy Arnette, residential sales manager, Brian’s Flooring & Design, the system has updated stagnant industry norms. “We By Megan Salzano.

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 3, 2023

FCNews has announced the winners of its second annual FCNnovation Awards —a program designed to recognize and showcase some of the most innovative new products and technologies unveiled in the current year. Premier Flooring Center. Premier Flooring Center. Following are the 2022 winners: Carpet. The Dixie Group. True Grout.

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Floor Covering News

JULY 21, 2022

(This article was provided by QFloors , a user-friendly flooring software designed to streamline operations for small, mid-size and large flooring stores. A few years ago, the flooring industry faced the uncertainty of a worldwide pandemic. Hyland does just that using QFloors flooring software.

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CTDA's Tiledealer Blog

APRIL 7, 2016

The show curates its educational sessions into tailored tracks for each segment of attendees – distributors, retailers, architects, designers, fabricators, installers, builders/remodelers, and professionals seeking green education – though every course is made available to all attendees and exhibitors. Tuesday, April 19, 12:00 – 1:00p.m.

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 17, 2023

B efore starting her own software company, Kristen Stensby worked in her family’s flooring store in St. She decided to create Showroom Pricing, a software company that allows flooring dealers to update pricing in real time. Our software integrates with both non-B2B price lists and B2B distributors,” Stensby added. “We

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The A to Z of Building

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

LP Building Products recently launched their new LP® SolidStart™ Design software, a single-member sizing solution that allows users to size floor and roof joists, beams, columns and studs.

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Floor Covering News

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Floor Covering News is now accepting nominations for its third annual FCNnovation Awards , which is a way to recognize and showcase groundbreaking and industry-changing ideas. Flooring products will be judged based on design and/or performance (technology). H untington S tation , N.Y.—

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 5, 2020

QFloors officially released its QPro POS+, a new browser-based cloud software. Las Vegas—Flooring technology, just like flooring products, continue to evolve every year. As businesses grow, the software and digital programs that assist flooring dealers with their day-to-day operations must stay in lockstep.

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Floor Covering News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

The Broadlume rebranding, which is designed to create simplicity in the marketplace for retail members, also entails a new website , new logo and color palette as well as updates across all digital platforms. Flooring retailers knew us by five names and it doesn’t make things easy for our employees or anyone in the industry.

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Floor Covering News

MAY 5, 2020

RollMaster Software is rolling out a new integrated solution designed to allow its software clients to automatically connect with their customers for appointment reminders and installation scheduling changes via text messaging. The post Rollmaster rolls out texting feature appeared first on Floor Covering News.

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Diary of a Tile Addict

JANUARY 27, 2024

NeosAware (2017), first artificial intelligence software for the formulation of ceramic compositions. Klusss (2020) ceramic flooring with the same capacity to absorb sound as carpets. Ceilook (2015), ceramic roofs with a density close to water, vapor permeable and durable over time (www.ceilook.com ).

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

When owning a business, the software you use behind the scenes is as important as the product you put on your showroom floor. Relying solely on pen and paper—or a non-flooring-specific software—can not only clutter your business processes but create difficulties down the road. Joplin Floor Designs, Joplin, Mo.,

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Floor Covering News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

The range of retail flooring software applications available today can help dealers manage a number of essential tasks, including estimation and measurement, warehousing and shipping, billing and collections and even lead management. Following is an overview of some of those offerings: American Business Software. MeasureSquare.

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 18, 2020

—RFMS said it will host a second series of free live webinars to all users of the RFMS software. The educational series, titled “RFMS Conversations and Coffee Webinar series” allow RFMS users to join the RFMS sales and training teams for discussion on their favorite software modules and features. To register, click here.

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