Furniture Industry News

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.

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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 four new inventory-related interfaces to provide its retailers with greater visibility across their supply chains. These include the “Product Read” web integration, “Vendor Quantity On-Hand” API, integration to the Ashley Product Data Feed API, and enhancements to RetailDeck. Learn more here.

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.

As inventory challenges persist, so do STORIS’ development efforts to help retailers manage uncertainty. Discover the new tools available in Release 10.6. Read more.

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.

Providing features that enhance the customers’ experience on our retailers’ websites was the intention of eSTORIS Release 4.3.7, especially ahead of the upcoming holiday shopping season that will rely heavily on eCommerce sales. Read about the new release.

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.

The Buying Group Interface packages fundamental APIs needed to connect STORIS’ retail software to association website solutions and share key data that enhances the customers’ shopping experience.

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.

flexEngage, the leading innovator of personalized smart receipts for retailers, has announced a new integration with STORIS: The Unified Commerce Solution. Together, STORIS and flexEngage enable clients to showcase compelling visual content with personalized e-receipts that generate engagement at the peak of shopper excitement.

As the role of websites continues to expand, STORIS’ latest eCommerce release addresses non-linear shopping journeys and logistical enhancements. Feature enhancements include sales quotes, online order management, delivery scheduling, and discounting.

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

The ability to sell customizable, Special Order merchandise via an eCommerce website is now available to home furnishings retailers through STORIS. This is a highly anticipated new feature of both STORIS web solutions, eSTORIS and eBridge Commerce.

STORIS introduces an all-new website integration solution, eBridge Commerce, to enable its furniture and appliance retailers who have made investments in their websites to seamlessly integrate to STORIS’ retail solutions.

STORIS introduces Comprehensive Replenishment. This interactive tool provides a real-time view of a retailer’s supply so they have the data needed to purchase the optimal inventory quantities needed to meet demand while preserving open-to-buy dollars.

Home furnishings retailers are heading into the new year with eCommerce optimization on top of their to-do lists. STORIS introduces critical, new functionality to the eSTORIS integrated eCommerce platform across logistics, financed payment options, and product imagery.

STORIS’ team gleaned insight from retailers in the field and developed a new tool, View and Manage Open Order Lines, (VAMOOL), to help retailers proactively address logistical challenges

STORIS Release 10.4 is jam-packed with significant enhancements across a spectrum of functional areas. A common thread of the new features is resource efficiency, from warehouse operations to inventory allocation and margin control. Read more.

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,

In eSTORIS’ latest Release 4.2.6, two key payment processing enhancements help retailers as they navigate an influx of online eCommerce orders: Online Payments on Open Orders and Pre-Authorized Credit Card Processing.

STORIS is pleased to announce Caitlin Jascewsky’s induction into the 2020 class of Forty Under 40 published by Home Furnishings Business. STORIS is proud Caitlin represents their team as a determined and talented professional impacting the future of the home furnishings industry.

Since March of 2020, Badcock.com has seen its online sales increase 4x and experienced record-setting traffic with a +40% monthly traffic increase. Read more.

The new Checkout was designed with UI/UX research to maximize online conversion rates and is now a single-page, three-step process that eliminates friction.

STORIS is a Gold Medalist in SoftwareReviews’ brand-new Retail Point of Sale Research Report. STORIS is the only technology dedicated to the home furnishings industry to appear on the report.

STORIS’ CFA is a streamlined web-based technology that secures the submission of private data needed when applying for credit. CFA empowers customers to protect their privacy by filling out a credit application independently. Read More.

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

STORIS is recognized by NJBIZ as a Top 10 Best Place to Work in NJ for 2019. This awards program is dedicated to identifying NJ’s best employers.

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.

New features are designed to bring cross-channel continuity between a retailer’s stores and website. Learn more.

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!

STORIS has partnered with lease-to-own financing provider, Snap Finance, to better meet the credit needs of customers at the point of sale through flexible no-credit financing.

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.

STORIS’ Director of Product Database Design, Shawn McKnight, leads the team responsible for the foundational decisions for STORIS’ Next Generation, Web-Based User Interface. He has been named to the Home Furnishings Business “Forty Under 40.”

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.

The conference theme “Unified for Success” highlighted the content and technology’s focus on Unified Commerce. Emerging shifts in retail and the consumer purchasing journey were at the forefront of conversation with STORIS clients gleaning actionable insights on building technology as the center point of their unified brands.

STORIS is proud to announce that Jake Egan has been recognized in the HFB’s 2017 “Forty Under 40” class of industry leaders. Jake was nominated to recognize his incredible work ethic, dedication to STORIS’ clients, and accomplishments of his team.

Marybeth Feeney was recognized in the category of Mentoring. The Mentoring Award nominees are executives who have fostered advocacy, development and promotion of women in their company.

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.

The Best Places to Work awards identifies, recognizes & honors the top places of employment in NJ.

Every year HFB celebrates the contributions the next generation brings to the future of the industry.

Marilyn Durning, STORIS’ VP of Client Services, was nominated for a WithIt Leadership Award and was honored at this Spring’s High Point Market WOW Awards Ceremony

This is STORIS’ latest enhancement to the in-store finance application workflow.

STORIS has been named one of the Best Places to Work in New Jersey by NJBIZ. The Best Places to Work statewide program honors New Jersey’s top 100 employers who are committed to their employees’ growth and quality of life.