Furniture Industry News Archive

STORIS congratulates our partner Arhaus on a record-breaking Q3 2025. With $344.6 million in net revenue and continued growth across 103 showrooms, Arhaus proves that artistry and discipline can thrive together in modern furniture retail.

STORIS celebrates Bill Hinks and Furniture Mart USA for dual industry honors—Hinks’ 2025 Hall of Fame induction and Furniture Retailer of the Year recognition—acknowledging decades of visionary leadership and community-driven excellence.

STORIS congratulates Jordan Storey of Wichita Furniture & Mattress for earning a spot in Furniture Today’s 40 Under 40 Class of 2025.

In a volatile tariff landscape and impatient customers, STORIS helps merchandisers manage lead times, ASNs, and invoice alignment.

Furniture Today’s Trailblazers & Titans honored Jake Jabs of American Furniture Warehouse at Las Vegas Market, recognizing decades of disciplined, customer-first leadership.

STORIS and LendPro partner to streamline retail financing, enhancing approvals, omnichannel experiences, and compliance for home furnishings and appliance retailers.

STORIS welcomes Bill Trimble as Senior Vice President of Strategy and Transformation. With over 30 years in furniture retail leadership, Trimble joins STORIS to drive strategic growth, innovation, and operational excellence across the company.

Retail expert David McMahon shares actionable strategies to help furniture retailers stay competitive. Learn how to adjust pricing, reduce inventory loss, and streamline operations for success in the evolving market. Don’t miss these insights on inventory management and retail growth—read the full article now!

This new STORIS NextGen capability, integrated with Azure Entra ID, allows retail sales teams to seamlessly log in using their Windows credentials, delivering a frictionless user experience while bolstering enterprise-level security. 

Signature Capture launches in STORIS NextGen, delivering the ability to electronically capture signatures. In STORIS NextGen, a signature can be taken on any device, regardless of whether it is touch-enabled. Retailers can easily roll out this functionality using their current devices.

STORIS proudly congratulates our Customer Success Manager, Greg Miller, for being inducted into the HFB “Forty Under 40” Class of 2024. Greg was recognized for his commitment to the success of STORIS NextGen client implementations and the launch of our Learning Management System, STORIS Academy.

Rising credit utilization is seen among millennials and Generation Z shoppers. To drive this essential source of revenue, STORIS is excited to launch financing in its STORIS NextGen Mobile POS.

STORIS is proud to announce a groundbreaking partnership with Berrios, Puerto Rico’s largest furniture and appliance retailer. This collaboration combines STORIS’s cutting-edge SaaS technology with Berrios’s commitment to exceptional customer service and quality.

Top 100 retailers are collectively exploring these initiatives to navigate the natural cycles of the economy and position their brands for future success. They leveraged these strategies to growth.

STORIS launches our Webhooks solution for scalable automation. Home furnishings retail leaders can personalize their customer experience strategies like never before.

Inadequate coordination of receiving appointments at retail distribution centers can result in dock delays and disrupt your supply chain. STORIS’ new Receiving Calendar solution empowers warehouse managers to organize inbound logistics and warehouse teams efficiently.

Launch a Membership Rewards Program with paid subscription tiers and attractive incentives and easily managing all aspects within the STORIS ERP. Membership Rewards foster customer loyalty and retention.

Two major players in the furniture retail industry point to these two pivotal trends as their reason to have hope in the future of our economy.

STORIS NextGen’s web-based Mobile POS surpassed the billion-dollar milestone in annual sales processed solely via mobile in 2023. STORIS’ results reinforce consumer demand for mobile experiences and emphasize the role of mobile technologies for leaders crafting their 2024 strategy.

STORIS announces our partnership with Adyen for integrated credit card processing. Additionally, we expand the channels where retailers can accept secure credit and debit card payments including via STORIS NextGen Mobile POS and APIs

Remote Manager Overrides enables sales associates to send manager override requests through their mobile devices. This new mobile approach eliminates frustration, enables associates to stay with their customers, and expedites checkout.

STORIS is pleased to have been recognized within the Top 10 companies in NJ, at #8 for midsized businesses with 150 to 500 employees. NJ Advance Media, NJ.com, and Jersey’s Best orchestrate the Top Work Places program.

Technology solutions are the backbone of modern retail operations and STORIS is committed to building powerful technology-driven partnerships. Behind many of STORIS’ significant partnerships built with industry leaders over the last decade is our Enterprise Account Executive and Sales Manager, Brian Robinson. Today, we proudly celebrate Brian’s induction into Home Furnishings Business’ 40 Under 40 Class of 2023.

Introducing STORIS Academy. This state-of-the-art Learning Management System (LMS) presents expertly developed training courses to ease the burden of technology education for home furnishings retail operations.

STORIS has re-engineered its Integrated Credit Card Processing Solution. With this new solution, merchant retailers can seamlessly connect to credit card gateway providers to automatically and securely validate credit and debit card transactions via cloud-based payment systems. The first credit card gateway with which the new STORIS solution will integrate is CardPointe® Gateway from Fiserv, Inc.

STORIS is humbled to be recognized as a Top Work Place in NJ through NJ.com and Jersey’s Best for the second year in a row. The company’s leadership is incredibly proud of its team of 150 talented and dedicated individuals who together deliver the home furnishings industry’s leading software and services.

Configure, price, and generate sales and purchase orders for special order products in the web-based STORIS NextGen. This highly anticipated capability is now available, enabling retailers to practice a mobile selling strategy.

In the current retail climate, maximizing the ticket value of each customer is imperative. For retailers, selling Protection Plans is a way to upsell a service on a tangible product you’ve already sold. Learn more about new features to increase Protection Plan revenue.

STORIS and Nationwide Marketing Group announce an agreement that solidifies STORIS as an integral part of Nationwide’s “approved Point of Sale provider initiative.” This formalization coincides with the companies marking 25 years of collaboration on behalf of the independent retail channel.

Discover modern selling tools to make your sales team’s workflows more productive and attract new hires.
Barcode scanning, shopping cart enhancements, sales quotes, and manager negotiation tools are new to STORIS NextGen. Learn more now.

Kaitlin Surdoval Deane, STORIS’ Sr. Manager of Marketing, has been named to the inaugural Furniture Today 40 Under 40. Read about her career here.

To help retailers adapt to dynamic supply and demand, STORIS introduces several high-impact features focused on order fulfillment. Read about the STORIS 10.7 Release.

Pete Dressler, STORIS’ Manager of Product Management, has been named to the 2022 Home Furnishings Business (HFB) Forty Under 40 Class. Read about his career here.

STORIS is proud to announce that our team has been recognized as a Top Workplace in New Jersey for 2022 by NJ.com and Jersey’s Best. Read more.

In eSTORIS Release 4.5.2, payment options are expanded to include online gift cards, integrations to PayPal’s Braintree and Affirm, and added credit card securities. When your customer is ready to buy online, STORIS Release 4.5.2 aims to make it as frictionless as possible for them to transact.

STORIS introduces the ability to automatically trigger “Notifications Based on Data Capture Events” that occur in the STORIS ERP. Events in STORIS that can now trigger notifications include when a Sales Order is entered or deleted and when a fulfillment on an order is fully reserved, scheduled, or completed.

STORIS and Versatile Credit announce the integration of Versatile’s powerful and adaptable financing technology to STORIS’ ERP. Read the announcement.

In a highly anticipated update, STORIS revamps its Protection Plan functionality in its new Release 10.6. Retailers can enhance their processing of Protection Plans with direct integrations to industry partners, Guardsman & Montage.

Retailers in all industries are investing in mobile solutions to meet customer expectations, unify selling channels, make product information more readily accessible and expedite checkout times. As such, STORIS’ NextGen CXM & Mobile POS holistically supports the shopping and buying phases of the guests’ experience.

The integration enables STORIS post-purchase data to be utilized in Package.ai’s platform, which uniquely combines automated customer messaging, delivery and reputation management, and contextual up-sell tools.

Nancy Figueras, STORIS’ Client Relations Manager has been named to the 2021 Home Furnishings Business (HFB) Forty Under 40 Class. At the start of the pandemic, she spearheaded research for the development of new processes and features to tackle disruptions in the supply chain.

STORIS and Tools2Win have partnered to provide retailers using STORIS’ Unified Commerce Solution the ability to send key data to the Tools2Win Analytical Platform.

Factory Direct Enterprises, the Ashley HomeStore Northeast licensee with 18 showroom locations in the tri-state area, set an ERP conversion record for a Top 100 Retailer. FDE went live on STORIS in just 87 days during the COVID-19 Pandemic,

STORIS has successfully held software conversion launch events and a complete system merger for The Dufresne Group, The Wellsville Group, and Kittle’s Furniture.

The entire STORIS team would like to extend our congratulations and well wishes to Doug Culmone as he takes on his new role. We know he will build on the success he has led for the past 20 years as President & COO.

February 2019 marks three decades that STORIS has been providing technology solutions and services to the home furnishings industry. STORIS is excited to celebrate its 30th anniversary. Read more in our latest news!

Home furnishing retailers now have expanded options for no-credit-needed financing through an integration of Acima technology with the STORIS Unified Commerce Solution.

Retailers now have access to AvaTax, Avalara’s cloud-based solution, to automate sales tax compliance processes. Avalara is a leading provider of tax compliance automation software for businesses of all sizes.

Continuing a trend of continuous improvement for the benefit of members, BrandSource is pleased to announce a partnership with STORIS, a provider of software solutions for the appliance, bedding, furniture, and electronics industries.

STORIS is the only software provider specifically serving the home furnishings industry to be named to the FrontRunners Quadrant and to be ranked as a Leader.