We’re Florists.
We have been in the flower business since 1969. We started O’Shea’s Flowers and Gifts as a family business and built it from a small storefront to one of the most successful retail flower businesses in the country. We applied the same hard work we put into our retail business into building the best florist websites, florist ecommerce and floral technology solution on the market.
We Believe in Florist Independence
At Floranext, we believe florists should have access to independent technology solutions and should have the freedom to build a unique brand online. Our websites are designed to break free of the cookie cutter molds, allowing for maximum personalization & great design wherever possible.
Your Flower Shop, From the Cloud
We also think technology should be in the cloud. Because Floranext is could-based, we can offer continuous innovation – adding new features and functionality in weeks for all of our customers. Cloud software also allows instant deployment – so you can try before you buy.
Here are the six principles we follow with our software:
- You should be able to try software before you buy
- You should stick with your software because you love it, not because you have a contract
- You (and only you) should have control over your customer information
- Technology should be so well-built that you can manage it yourself
- Your software should be able to grow with your business
- Software is a service, and is always getting better
We brought thousands of loyal customers for our retail flower business through honest hard work and attention to detail — we bring the same approach to our work at Floranext. We look forward to helping you create a better experience online for your customers.
The Floranext Team:
Bill O’Shea
Bill has been a florist for 40 years. He founded and ran a family flower shop in New Jersey that grew to become one of the largest in the country, an FTD top 250 shop for over a decade.
William O’Shea
William grew up in the flower business and built Floranext’s first version for the family flower business. William has a history of working with and building disruptive, market-transforming technologies.
At Skype (sold to eBay for $2.6 billion), an internet telephone company that has brought free international calling to over 500 million users, he managed business development and partnerships. And at British Telecom he led a team developing an internet-based television service in partnership with the BBC based on open standards, that would compete with Rupert Murdoch’s Sky television monopoly. William has also written about technology for the New York Times and the Financial Times. Over his career he has lived and worked in the US, UK, Spain, Hong Kong, and India.
Thomas Boltze
Dr. Boltze spent the last 15 years creating technologies, standards and products in the digital media space, including Digital Radio and Digital Television for Philips and Visible World, and more recently the Internet space, where he co-founded several startups in China. He has lived and worked in Europe, the US and most recently in Shanghai. His main interests are architecture of large scale software systems, processes and good design. His favorite tools at the moment include Rails, lots of gems and a D700.
Amber Eckley
Amber’s passion for flowers and small business started at a very young age, with thanks in part to her entrepreneurial parents and 3 generations of avid community gardeners. In her youth, Amber would
volunteer at her local flower shop, and became committed to improving the ever changing world of small business. After completing her degree in business management, Amber has aided numerous small companies
across the U.S. and Brazil tackling issues regarding marketing, design, and strategy. Although she loves tropical climates, her favorite flower is the Ranunculus Tecolote.