Changelog

What’s new in BloomBoard.

What ships in BloomBoard, in plain florist language, updated as it ships. These are the same updates we send florists in the “From the studio” email. Newest first.

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24 September 2026From the studio · No. 006
Your Inbox now works like your email app.
This update is about the conversations around your events. The Inbox has been rebuilt to work like the email app you already use. You can also bring the terms you send today into Terms Studio with one paste, and the Fonts panel now starts with pairings you try with a hover.
01An Inbox like your email app
Every proposal, invoice and brief you send starts a conversation, and your client’s reply lands in it. Folders sit down the left: Inbox, Awaiting reply, Archived and Needs review, with an Unread chip above the list. Hover a row to archive it or mark it read, or tick a few and clear them together. Archiving never deletes anything, and a new message from the client brings the conversation back. Press Reply and the reply box opens in place, with Cc, formatting and files. Paste a photo or a screenshot and your client sees it in the message, not as an attachment. You can also paste the signature from your usual email app, logo and colours included, under Settings → Email.
02Bring your terms in with one paste
Open Terms, choose Add new terms, and paste the text or upload the PDF or Word file you send clients today. Choose Format my terms. A page or two takes under a minute and a long document a few minutes, and then you have a draft with proper headings, plus fields such as your business name and deposit that fill in from each proposal. Your wording is meant to stay exactly as you wrote it, and BloomBoard checks that: a note at the top of the draft lists what it added, what it left alone and any line that came out different, next to your original. Then make them your default: tick Set as default when you publish, or choose it from the three-dot menu on terms you already have. Every new proposal then starts with those terms attached, so you no longer have to remember to add them. You can still change or remove them on any proposal, and proposals you have already started keep the terms they have. Terms no longer print inside the proposal. The proposal links to your client’s own terms page, the PDF carries a QR code to it, and a client who signs gets the terms as their own PDF.
03Fonts that come in pairs
Fonts in the design studio now starts with pairings: a display, heading and body face chosen to work together. Hover a card and your proposal repaints to show it; tap it to keep it. Any font you have uploaded gets its own card, and Fine-tune changes Display, Headings or Body on its own. Uploading your brand fonts takes three short steps, including adding a missing bold or italic before anything is saved.
Also new
- Settings is now two places: Business holds what your clients see, and Settings holds your own account, your plan and connected apps. Old links still take you to the right page.
- Delete an arrangement straight from its row on the proposal, with Undo for five seconds.
- Move a photo to Trash and it leaves every moodboard it was on. Sent proposals keep their own pictures.
- A client contact can now be marked Partner, next to Bride and Groom.
- Finances is now called Analytics, and a rented item inside a recipe is costed at its rental rate.
- How client management works
14 September 2026From the studio · No. 005
Your clients can now pay you online by card.
Online payments are on for every account. Your clients can pay an invoice by card from the page you already send them — through Yoco in South Africa and Stripe everywhere else. Invoices also got the same send screen proposals have, and you can call the occasions on your enquiry form whatever you like.
01Get paid from the invoice page
Every invoice already has its own private page; it can now take the money. Under Settings → Client payments, connect your card provider (about ten minutes with the guide) and add your bank details. Your client sees a Pay online button and a bank-transfer panel with click-to-copy details and a reference tied to the invoice. Card payments land on the invoice by themselves, marked Paid online — you get a Payment received email, the client gets a receipt, and a bank transfer they mark as made waits under Transfers awaiting confirmation until you confirm it. BloomBoard takes no fee; you pay only your provider’s processing fee, and you can pass that on to card payers. Online payments are new and in beta.
02Send an invoice the way you send a proposal
One Send button opens the same screen proposals use. Email the client with the address, subject and message filled in and the PDF attached; copy the payment link, which comes with a QR code; or download the PDF. Sending locks the invoice and gives it its number. The PDF a client downloads is now the same document they saw on the page, in the same layout.
03Call the occasions on your enquiry form your wayStudio plan
The options a visitor picks from on your enquiry link used to be BloomBoard’s words. Under Settings → Client brief → On your enquiry form, rename any of them — “Something else” can become “A private dinner”. The option still opens the same brief.
Also new
- Proposal expiry is no longer 14, 30 or 60 days only — pick Custom under Settings → Proposals and type your own number of days.
- Settings now sit inside the app with the rail on the left, and pressing / searches every setting.
- Venue search looks near your business address first.
- On the proposal board, every number you can edit carries a faint dashed underline.
- Sign in with Google and your Google photo becomes your avatar, unless you have uploaded one.
- Library items open in a wider two-pane drawer — the item on the left, its variants on the right.
- If the signed copy of a proposal cannot be emailed, you get a notification and a line in the event’s Activity.
- Compare the plans
7 September 2026From the studio · No. 004
Change what your brief asks. Save the lines you always add.
Two things a lot of you asked for: you can now change what the client brief asks, and you can save the services and costs you put on every quote. There’s also a new way to send your team their week-of plan.
01Change what your brief asksStudio plan
The brief your clients fill in is now yours to edit, under Settings → Client brief. Each event type has its own brief. Reword any question, drag pages and questions into a different order, hide the ones that never apply, and add your own — a short answer, a yes or no, a list, a date. Turn on Required and the “still deciding” option goes away. A phone preview shows what your client will see as you type; a brief a client has already opened doesn’t change.
02Save the lines you always add
Delivery. Strike. A consultation fee. Hover a row on a quote, open its menu and choose Save to your services (costs work the same way). Next time, choose Add from saved, tick the ones you want, and they land with the prices you saved — change the amounts for that event and your saved list stays as it was.
03Send your team their own link
The week-of plan used to have one link for everyone; now each person on the team gets their own. Open the Week-of view and choose Send link to team — opening the link signs them in, no password. Your checklists show on the link too, unless you switch a list to Private, and when someone ticks an item off, their name and the time sit next to it, on their phone and on your dashboard.
04Two small things on the events board
Duplicate an event from its card menu — it copies the client, date, venue, options, arrangements and images into a new lead with a fresh draft proposal (invoices and payments are never copied). And the new-event date picker now shows which days already hold an event: a solid dot is booked, a hollow dot is an enquiry.
Also new
- Recolour the text on your proposal document — text, muted and soft, each with its own colour — under Colors in the design editor.
- Every arrangement row on the proposal board has a … menu: move it to another group, or make a new group right there.
- Invoices have their own settings page — add your bank details once and they print on every invoice.
- If your clients pay by card online, you can pass the card fee on to them, under Settings → Getting paid. Bank transfers never carry it.
- Prices on the document use your currency symbol, and the tax row uses your own tax name — GST or VAT rather than Tax.
- Canva pages come through sharper if you’re on a paid Canva plan.
- The proposal board and the week-of plan update the moment you change something.
- Signing in on a phone now emails you a link to open on your laptop or tablet — a BloomBoard app for your phone is in the works.
- How event week works
28 August 2026From the studio · No. 003
Bring your Canva designs in, and a new landscape template.
Two big ones: you can bring your Canva designs into your proposals, and there’s a new landscape template called Golden Hour. The design editor got a rework too, and BloomBoard can now draft in your own words.
01Your Canva designs, in your proposals
Connect your account under Settings → Canva, then open the Images panel in the design editor — there’s a Canva tab next to your library. Pick a design, choose Fit or Fill, and it lands on a page. It stays linked: change the design in Canva and BloomBoard picks up the new version, with an Edit in Canva button if you want to jump across. On every plan.
02Golden Hour, our first landscape templateStudio plan
Some proposals want to be read like an open album. Golden Hour is landscape: a full-bleed cover, photos mounted in a fine frame, and your arrangements laid out in a two-column spread.
03The design editor is easier to work in
Click anything and one toolbar appears with what you can do to it; right-click for the rest; zoom and pan from the top bar. The Share button now runs the checks first. Your own pages can show the document header and footer, per page. And design presets no longer need an event — style a template over sample content under Library → Design presets and it’s ready the moment a real enquiry lands.
04Drafts that sound like you
BloomBoard drafts event vibes and arrangement descriptions for you. Under Settings → Brand voice, give it some of your own writing — paste it, point it at your website, or upload a few files — and it suggests a style guide: your tone, the words you use and avoid. Keep what fits, and from then on drafts read like you wrote them.
Also new
- Prices now live with the event: change a flower’s cost on one recipe and every arrangement in that event follows — undo it, or keep the change to one arrangement. The cost summary shows markup and margin side by side.
- Drag a photo from the Images panel straight onto a page — onto empty space to add it, onto a photo to swap it.
- Your enquiry form can require a budget and a phone number, and set a minimum spend, under Settings → Client brief.
- Export packs now include one order list across all your suppliers.
- Arrangement templates are in the sidebar, under Library.
- Recipe quantities can be fractions — 0.3 of a stem saves.
- Copy a supplier’s order list as plain text and paste it into a message.
- The default group “Bridal Retinue” is now called “Personal Flowers”.
- How proposals work
15 August 2026From the studio · No. 002
Your brand on everything your clients see.
Custom branding is here — the thing you’ve asked us for the most: your logo, your colours, and your own web address on everything your clients see. There’s also a new way to handle planner commissions.
01Set your brand once, in one placeStudio plan
Settings → Branding has your logo and three colours: accent for headings and buttons, background and ink for the canvas and the text your clients read. Pick from the swatches or paste a hex code, and watch the live preview of your proposal page, brief and emails repaint as you pick. If two colours would be hard to read together, BloomBoard suggests a better pair.
02Everywhere your clients lookStudio plan
One switch takes BloomBoard out of the picture. Proposal pages and client briefs show your logo and colours with no badge; emails come from your studio’s name with your logo and sign-off; link previews in WhatsApp and iMessage show your name and image; the browser tab shows your icon. Anything you’ve already sent stays exactly as your client received it.
03Send links from your own web addressStudio plan
Connect a subdomain of a domain you already own — proposals.your-studio.com — and every link you send from then on is yours: proposals, briefs, invoices, your enquiry page. Setup is two records you copy and paste at your domain provider; BloomBoard picks them up and goes live on its own, usually within minutes.
04Add a planner’s commission your client never sees
If a wedding planner takes commission on your work, set the percentage once in your pricing rules and choose what it covers, from arrangements only up to the whole proposal. Your board still shows your own prices, the client’s proposal and PDF include the markup, and BloomBoard shows you what you owe the planner.
Also new
- Client briefs now ask for your client’s email first, so if they stop halfway you still have an address to reply to.
- Reopening a brief no longer hides what was already sent — every submitted version stays one click away.
- Download a sent or signed proposal’s PDF straight from the event menu.
- Coordinators have a directory of their own, with every linked event one click away.
- If you’re on Core, you can now upgrade to Studio inside BloomBoard, under Settings → Plan & billing.
- Compare the plans
6 August 2026From the studio · No. 001
Draw on your pages, and never miss an enquiry.
A busy stretch in the studio: a proper toolset for your own proposal pages, pages anywhere in the proposal, alerts the moment an enquiry lands, and rentals that show exactly how they bill.
01Design directly on your pages
Draw a line at any angle — colour, dashed or dotted, arrowheads — and drop in shapes that take their fill from your theme. Sweep up several pieces to align them or move them as one, and lock anything you’ve finished so a stray click can’t shift it.
02Put a page anywhere in the proposal
Your own pages can now sit between arrangement pages, not only at the start or end of a section. The add-page pill names the exact gap it will fill, and a page placed between arrangements stays with the arrangement it follows when you reorder.
03Know the moment an enquiry lands
A new enquiry from your public link rings the bell for everyone on your team, sends you an email, and raises a strip above your event cards. All three take you to the same review panel.
04Rentals, in a recipe or on their own line
A rental tucked into an arrangement’s recipe is priced into that arrangement at your rental markup, with a quiet note in the Rentals section so nothing hides. One added straight to the Rentals section bills as its own line on the proposal.
Also new
- Search the whole events board: client names, event names, venues and cities, coordinators and your notes — a small typo still finds the right event.
- The cover page can be hidden, so you can open with a page of your own.
- Export a complete copy of your workspace from Settings, any time.
- Download the draft PDF straight from the preview tab.
- Long proposals with many arrangements break across pages far more reliably.
- How proposals work