Why Garden Centers choose GardenModo POS

At Pomodo, we take the time to understand the unique rhythms of your garden center — from spring planting rushes to holiday poinsettia season — so your POS system works as hard as you do from day one. We don’t just install software; we guide you through every feature designed to help you manage inventory across thousands of SKUs, track seasonal demand, and keep checkout lines moving when your floor is packed.

Our dedicated support team ensures you’re fully equipped to leverage every tool available, helping you streamline operations, boost staff productivity, and confidently grow your business year after year.

With GardenModo, you’re not simply using a garden center POS — you’re partnering with a team committed to your long-term success through every season.

Customer-Favorite Services That Deliver Results:

• Personalized One-on-One Training
• Seamless Data Conversion from Your Existing System
• Dedicated, Responsive Support When You Need It Most
• Simplified Hardware, Software & Payment Processing Integration
• Intuitive, Easy-to-Navigate Software Built for Busy Retail Floors
• Smart Garden Center Retail Solutions Backed by Decades of Experience

POS & Payment Processing Expertise Since 1998

POS Expertise Since 1998 Trusted by specialty retailers for over two decades, Pomodo combines proven experience with modern innovation to deliver dependable, forward-thinking POS solutions for garden centers and nurseries.

Register Features built for the Way Garden Centers Actually Work

Custom POS Screens

Design your register layout around your garden center’s departments — annuals, perennials, trees & shrubs, hardgoods, soil & mulch, and more. Control exactly which categories and products appear on each register. For multi-register setups, configure each station independently so your checkout staff, nursery yard crew, and garden shop associates all work from a screen that matches their role.

Employee Scan Cards

Keep your team moving and your transactions accountable. Staff can quickly log in and out with scan cards, so every sale is tied to the right employee — whether you’re managing seasonal hires during your spring rush or a year-round core team.

On-Hold Transactions

Place transactions on hold and easily recall them later. Flag orders for future pickup and retrieve them on another day without missing a detail.

Custom Reference Fields

Capture the details that matter to your garden center. Track planting zones, special order notes, landscape contractor account numbers, or delivery instructions by adding custom text, numeric, or date fields directly within each transaction.

Custom Receipt Templates

Turn every receipt into a touchpoint for your garden center brand. Add planting tips, care reminders, upcoming event announcements, or seasonal promotions to your receipt header and footer — a simple way to keep customers engaged long after they leave the register.

Quick Cash Checkout

When spring weekends bring a line out the door, every second counts. Quick cash checkout lets your cashiers scan items and complete cash sales in one touch — keeping the line moving and customers happy.

Custom URL Buttons

Access the web-based tools your team relies on without ever leaving the register. Add quick-launch buttons for plant databases, care guides, supplier portals, or delivery scheduling tools so your staff always has the right resource at their fingertips.

Two-Line Customer Display

Build trust at checkout with a customer-facing display that shows item pricing and transaction totals in real time. Especially useful during busy seasonal rushes when customers want to verify pricing on multiple items quickly.

Gain Control Over Your Garden Center Business

Day-to-Day Operations

Pomodo runs on a desktop-based register that syncs to the cloud — so when your Wi-Fi goes down in the middle of a busy Saturday, your business doesn’t. Keep ringing up sales offline and let the system automatically sync everything back to your back office the moment your connection is restored. No lost transactions, no interruptions, no scrambling.

Cash Drawer Management

Track every dollar from the moment you open the register to the time you lock up at night. Monitor cash drops and payouts throughout the day, and run comprehensive closing reports at day’s end for complete visibility and easy reconciliation — even across multiple registers or checkout stations.

User Management & Employee Time Clock

Garden centers rely on seasonal staff, part-time employees, and a mix of roles across the register, yard, and greenhouse. Pomodo’s role-based permissions let you control exactly what each employee can access — cashiers see what they need, managers see everything. Reduce errors, strengthen accountability, and protect your business from unnecessary exposure.

Pomodo also includes a built-in employee time clock so staff can clock in and out directly through the system. Managers can review, edit, and generate detailed time reports from the Pomodo Cloud — making payroll processing straightforward even during your busiest hiring seasons.

PIN Options for Manager Overrides

Set up manager PINs to control when approval is required for discounts, or other restricted actions. Keep your seasonal and part-time staff operating within the right guardrails without slowing down your experienced team.

Void and No Sale Reporting

Stay on top of register activity with clear, accessible reporting on voids and no-sale events. Know what’s happening at every checkout station so you can spot patterns, address issues early, and keep your operation running with confidence.

Multiple Discount and Pricing Options

Price Levels

Garden centers serve a diverse mix of customers — retail shoppers, landscape contractors, wholesale nursery accounts, garden club members, and loyal repeat buyers all deserve pricing that reflects their relationship with your business. GardenModo’s custom price levels let you define unique pricing tiers for each customer type, so the right discounts and special rates are automatically applied at checkout every time — no manual overrides, no pricing errors, no awkward conversations at the register.

Automatic Discounts

Move more product and reward your best customers with promotions that trigger automatically at checkout — no coupon codes, no cashier guesswork.

• Mix & Match: Encourage customers to fill out their garden by discounting purchases across similar items. Perfect for promotions like “any 6 annuals for one price” or bundling perennials across varieties.

• Quantity Discounts: Reward volume purchases automatically. Ideal for landscape contractors and wholesale buyers stocking up on flats, bags of mulch, or bulk hardgoods.

• Buy X, Get Y: Drive add-on sales and move seasonal inventory with free or discounted item promotions. Great for offers like “buy a bag of fertilizer, get a planting mix at half price” or end-of-season clearance bundles.

Volume Discounts

Garden centers thrive on bulk buyers — landscape contractors loading up on flats, homeowners tackling a full yard renovation, or nursery accounts restocking for the season. Set up product-specific volume discounts that trigger automatically when a customer hits the qualifying quantity, so price breaks are applied instantly at checkout without any manual intervention. Encourage larger orders on everything from bedding plants and shrubs to soil, mulch, and hardgoods — and watch average transaction values grow along with your customer loyalty.

Manual Discounts

Sometimes a loyal customer deserves a little extra, a damaged plant needs a markdown, or end-of-season inventory needs to move fast. GardenModo makes it easy to apply discounts directly at the register when the situation calls for it — while permission-based controls ensure only authorized staff can make those calls. Keep your pricing strategy intact, your margins protected, and your team accountable, without slowing down the line during your busiest days.

Pomodo CRM

Customer Details

Build lasting relationships with every customer in your system. Store and manage complete customer profiles including multiple billing and shipping addresses — essential for landscape contractors juggling multiple job sites, wholesale nursery accounts shipping to different locations, or loyal retail customers who want their orders delivered to their door. Keep all the details organized and instantly accessible to streamline checkout, invoicing, and order fulfillment from the first visit to the hundredth.

Purchase History

Know exactly what your customers have bought and when. Access complete purchase histories and retrieve receipts from past transactions in seconds — whether a landscape contractor needs documentation for a client invoice, a customer wants to replant something they bought last spring and can’t remember the variety, or your team needs to verify a return or exchange quickly and confidently.

Accounts Receivable

Landscape contractors, wholesale nursery accounts, and established commercial clients often expect the ability to buy on terms — and offering that flexibility can be the difference between winning their business and losing it to a competitor. GardenModo’s built-in accounts receivable lets you set customized payment terms for each account, process payments, monitor aging reports to stay on top of outstanding balances, and send professional statements — all from one platform. Extend credit with confidence and give your best accounts the billing experience they expect, without adding complexity to your back office.

Customer Loyalty

Turn one-time shoppers into season-after-season regulars. GardenModo’s built-in loyalty program lets you reward customers for sign-ups, visits, and purchases with points they can redeem for products or coupons — keeping your garden center top of mind every time planting season rolls around. Whether you’re encouraging a first-time shopper to come back for their summer annuals, rewarding a longtime customer stocking up for a landscape project, or building excitement around a new product line, a well-run loyalty program gives your customers one more reason to choose you over the big box store down the road.

Price Levels

Reward your best customers without any extra effort at the register. Assign landscape contractors, wholesale nursery accounts, garden club members, or VIP retail customers their own custom price level and GardenModo automatically applies their designated pricing every time they check out — no manual lookups, no pricing disputes, no missed discounts. The right price for the right customer, every single time, without slowing down your line.

Marketing

The right message at the right moment can fill your parking lot on a slow weekend or clear out end-of-season inventory before the first frost hits. Pomodo lets you segment your customer base by purchase history, loyalty status, price level, or other criteria and send targeted bulk emails that actually reach the right audience — landscape contractors get contractor news, retail shoppers get planting inspiration, and wholesale accounts get the updates that matter to them. Promote seasonal sales, announce new arrivals, share care tips, and stay top of mind all year long. Ask us about our partnership with Constant Contact to make professional, branded email marketing effortless for your garden center.

Inventory Management

Running a garden center means managing thousands of products across multiple categories, sizes, and seasonal cycles — from 4-inch annuals and balled-and-burlapped trees to 50-pound soil bags and small hardgoods accessories. Pomodo’s full suite of inventory management tools gives you the visibility and control to keep shelves stocked, orders on track, and shrinkage in check all season long.

• Low Stock Notifications – Never get caught short during your busiest weeks. Get automatic alerts when inventory is running low on fast-moving items like top-selling annuals, popular fertilizers, or seasonal décor so you can reorder before you run out.

• Purchase Order Management – Create, track, and manage purchase orders with your growers, wholesalers, and hardgoods suppliers all in one place. Stay organized through the spring buying season when orders are flying in from every direction.

• Inventory Transfers – Running multiple locations or a separate greenhouse and retail floor? Move stock between sites quickly and accurately so your inventory counts always reflect what’s actually on hand.

• Barcoding – Speed up receiving, stocking, and checkout with barcode scanning. Reduce pricing errors on products with similar packaging and keep your team moving efficiently even during peak traffic hours.

• Multiple Price Levels – Manage retail, contractor, and wholesale pricing for the same product without confusion. The right price tier applies automatically based on who’s buying.

• Multiple Package Sizes – Sell the same product in different quantities or packaging without the headache. Track mulch by the bag or by the pallet, fertilizer by the pound or the case, and plants by the flat or individually — all within the same SKU.

• Physical Inventory – Conduct efficient counts across your entire operation — indoor retail, outdoor yard, and greenhouse — to keep your stock levels accurate and your shrinkage under control.

• Detailed Inventory Reporting – Dig into stock trends, seasonal movement patterns, and product performance to make smarter buying decisions year after year. Know what sold out in week two of spring and what’s still sitting on the bench in July.

Handle both Retail and Wholesale

Running wholesale accounts alongside your retail floor doesn’t have to mean divided attention or doubled work. Our system is built to handle the volume, variety, and relationships that define nursery and garden center wholesale — from landscape contractors and property managers to florists and re-sellers.

Wholesale clients get the treatment they expect: dedicated customer accounts, customer-specific pricing tailored to each account, and clean invoice tracking so every order is documented and easy to reference. Whether you’re quoting a contractor on bulk perennials or fulfilling a standing order for a florist, the right price is always on file.

For high-volume or phoned-in orders, the optional Cloud Orders back-office module lets a clerk or manager input large wholesale orders from a separate workspace — without tying up your front counter or interrupting retail traffic. Your floor staff keeps moving while wholesale orders are processed behind the scenes.

Every wholesale order placed through Cloud Orders instantly updates inventory across the system, so your team always sees accurate availability — no double-selling, no surprises. Retail transactions update the same inventory in real time, keeping everything in sync.

At the end of the day, reporting gives you a clear view across your wholesale accounts and retail floor — so you always know where your business stands.

Credit Card Processing Done Right

Integrated Processing

When your checkout line stretches into the garden yard on a busy spring Saturday, the last thing you need is a payment system that slows things down. Pomodo’s integrated credit card processing keeps transactions flowing smoothly by connecting your payment terminal directly to your register — no manual entry, no double reconciliation, no end-of-day headaches matching up two separate systems. Every sale is captured accurately from the moment the card is tapped to the time you close out your registers, so your team can focus on helping customers instead of chasing down discrepancies.

One Stop Support

From your first transaction to your busiest spring weekend on record, GardenModo has you covered. As a certified agent for a major payment processor, we handle everything — setup, integration, and ongoing support — so you never have to navigate a payment issue alone or get bounced between your POS provider and your processor trying to figure out who’s responsible. One call, one team, one relationship. Spend less time troubleshooting and more time selling plants.

Competitive Rates

Every percentage point on your processing rate adds up fast when you’re running hundreds of transactions a week during peak season. Pomodo offers industry-leading processing rates and will analyze your current merchant statements to show you exactly what you could be saving — in real numbers, not vague promises. For garden centers processing high volumes of contractor accounts, wholesale orders, and busy weekend retail traffic, even a modest rate improvement can make a meaningful difference to your bottom line at the end of the season.

Hardware

Pomodo provides everything you need to run your business — from powerful POS software to reliable hardware. Whether you want a full bundle, customized setup, or a combination of our hardware and your own, we can get you exactly what you need to get started and keep running smoothly.

Top of the Line Equipment

Get durable, commercial-grade equipment designed to handle the demands of your business. Every device is fully supported and comes with a warranty, ensuring dependable performance day after day.

Bundle Options

Get the hardware you need for your business with industry-specific bundles, ready to go out of the box.

A la Carte Options

Not every business needs a full bundle. With Pomodo, you can mix and match hardware to create a setup that fits your unique needs — only pay for what you actually use.

Use your own Hardware

Pomodo works with your existing hardware if compatible, giving you the full power of our software without unnecessary upgrades. Visit our hardware compatibility page to see if your hardware is compatible.

Supplies

Order paper, cables, and other essentials directly from Pomodo — everything you need in one place.

Pomodo’s Premier Protection (P3) Plan

Running a business isn’t easy. But your POS hardware can be. With Pomodo’s Premier Protection Plan, you can focus on your business, while we monitor and warranty your hardware.