Struggling to find modern, user-friendly software that can handle all the needs of your furniture store without breaking the bank? Read on for our expert picks.
5 Best Furniture Store Software for 2025
This article is part of a larger series on POS Systems.
Struggling to find modern, user-friendly software that can handle all the needs of your furniture store without breaking the bank? Read on for our expert picks.
Furniture store business operators need an array of tools, including point of sale (POS), inventory management, order and delivery tracking, layaway, warehouse management, and vendor directories. I evaluated nearly a dozen different applications across 26 data points and narrowed options down to the best five.
The best furniture store software systems for small businesses are:
- STORIS: Best overall
- Lightspeed Retail: Best for large inventories
- Square for Retail: Best free option
- Shopify: Best for omnichannel sales
- Hike POS: Best for flexibility
Furniture store software compared
Monthly Fees | Delivery Management Tools | Warehouse Management | BNPL/Layaway Options | |
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4.32 | $89-$339 | âś“ | âś“ | |
4.31 | $0-$89 | âś“ | X | |
4.26 | $39-$399 | âś“ | âś“ | |
4.22 | $59-$99 | âś“ | âś“ | |
STORIS: Best overall furniture store software
Pros
- Software is designed specifically for furniture stores
- Warehouse and multilocation management
- Buying tools to help plan your inventory purchases
Cons
- High price point (based on third-party sources)
- Customer service is difficult to reach
Who should use it:
Established furniture stores wanting comprehensive industry tools like warehouse management, multilocation features, and buy now, pay later (BNPL) offerings.
Why I like it:
STORIS is the industry leader for furniture store software, designed specifically to service furniture retailers. With a POS system, inventory management and inventory planning tools, warehouse management, an ecommerce platform, customer relationship management (CRM), accounting, and reporting tools — all designed specifically for the furniture industry — STORIS is fully stocked with all the furniture store software you need to make running your business easier and more effective.
However, STORIS did lose a few points for its somewhat dated interface and high price point. STORIS software has custom-quoted pricing, so you’ll be able to negotiate for the best price given the tools you need; but users report that starting prices can exceed $500.
- Monthly software fees: All STORIS plans are quote-based
- Processing fees:
- Integrations with CloverConnect, PayPal, Shift4, and TenderRetail
- Rates will vary based on merchant account
- Furniture Inventory Controls: STORIS’s inventory management tools include omnichannel tracking and reporting, warehouse management, barcode scanning and counting, and just-in-time inventory management tools.
- Merchandise Management: Dubbed by STORIS as its merchandise management suite, this toolkit has tools for planning your buys based on demand, sending purchase orders, setting a pricing strategy, and managing vendors.
- Ecommerce: You can choose to integrate your STORIS POS and inventory with a STORIS ecommerce store, or you can use an API to integrate with a third-party solution.
- Point of Sale: Let customers unify their in-store and online shopping with synced shopping carts. And make your life easier with CRM tools, inventory overviews, discounting and promo management, scheduling and commission tools, and payment processing.
- Delivery Tools: Streamline and manage your furniture deliveries with tools for scheduling delivery dates, pickups, take-withs, and direct shipments.
- Reporting and Analytics: With the STORIS Business Suite, you can see reports ranging from customer behaviors to sales, to projections, to inventory. STORIS offers a powerful reporting platform in partnership with Microsoft Power BI & Azure to offer tons of data on a highly secure platform (add-on feature with a fee).
Lightspeed Retail: Best for large inventories
Pros
- Vendor catalogs and ordering integrated into POS
- Advanced reporting, including custom reports in advanced plans
- API to build custom tools and workflows (advanced plans)
Cons
- High price point, especially for advanced plans
- Must upgrade plan for full ecommerce functions
- Advanced reports and integrations require plan upgrade
Who should use it:
Furniture stores with large or complex inventories or that want to generate complex reports or easily keep track of numerous suppliers.
Why I like it:
If you are looking for the most control over your inventory, look no further than Lightspeed Retail — our pick for the best POS inventory management system on the market. With built-in vendor catalogs and ordering, the ability to list your products in said vendor catalogs for B2B sales, matrix and granular itemization, bulk management tools, custom stock alerts, purchase ordering, cycle counting assistance, advanced reporting, and even the ability to generate custom reports — Lightspeed cannot be beaten when it comes to handling large, complex inventories.
While the software brings a lot to the table, it lacked a few key furniture store software tools, including built-in BNPL tools. You’ll also need to upgrade beyond the base plan if you want loyalty, advanced reports, and ecommerce beyond a basic level. Additionally, the platform can be difficult to operate at the start and is often cited as having a major learning curve. There is onboarding help and great customer support, however, so there are tons of tools to help you overcome the challenge.
- Monthly Software Fees
- Basic: $109 (Annual pricing $89)
- Core: $179 (Annual pricing $149)
- Plus: $339 (Annual pricing $289)
- Processing Fees
- In-person: 2.6% + 10 cents
- Online: 2.9% + 30 cents
- Ecommerce: Lightspeed’s in-house ecommerce platform lets users build their sites from dozens of templates and ensure your online sales and inventory are integrated into your POS system. Note that if you want to use a third-party processor, you will incur a small monthly fee.
- Reporting: Lightspeed has some of the best reporting tools available. You can create custom reports, run granular reports for specific products or categories, and if you sign up for Lightspeed’s Plus plan, you will also get Lightspeed’s analytics tools which provide suggestions and insights based on store performance.
- Vendor Catalogs: Built into every Lightspeed POS are vendor catalogs. Here, you can shop from hundreds of vendors and products and place orders straight from your POS. The items will automatically integrate with your inventory catalog, and you can even list your own products to sell to other Lightspeed users.
- Counting Tools: If you download the Lightspeed scanner app, you can conduct counts and scan items right from your Android or iOS device, and all your data will automatically integrate with your POS.
Square for Retail: Best Free Option
Pros
- Forever-free base plan
- Every account includes payment processing and an ecommerce platform
- Highly flexible with POS app (iOS and Android) and mobile hardware options
Cons
- Locked into Square Payment processing
- Limited or inconsistent support
- No layaway or warehouse management tools
Who should use it:
Small furniture stores that want a free POS system with a good feature set, plus room to expand and add more tools.
Why I like it:
Square offers a top-of-the-line retail POS system, with a customizable checkout, inventory management, omnichannel sales, CRM, staff management tools, an ecommerce platform (and third-party integrations), and integrated payment processing including BNPL.
There are also an array of free and paid add-ons for additional functions. Not only that, Square’s baseline POS system is completely free—making it a suitable option for software for small retail furniture stores. You only have to level up to its paid plan if you need more advanced inventory controls and reporting features.
Square lost points for its lack of warehouse management tools and layaway offerings as well as for locking its vendor management and granular inventory tools behind a paywall.
- Free: $0
- Basic inventory manage and low-stock alerts
- Ecommerce store builder
- Basic reporting
- Plus: $89 per month
- Bulk inventory intake and cross-location transfer
- Vendor management and purchase orders
- Advanced reporting
- Premium: Custom pricing
- Custom processing rates
- Processing rates:
- In person: 2.5% + 10 cents to 2.6% + 15 cents (Depends on plan)
- Online: 2.9% + 30 cents
- Manually keyed-in: 3.5% + 15 cents
- Square Online: Every Square account comes with a free online store platform where you can create a branded site from dozens of templates and sell your products online. There are also integrations for sales on Google marketplaces, Instagram, and Facebook. Not only that, all your online sales will automatically sync with your POS and inventory, so you never miss a beat.
- Inventory Management Tools: Square offers all the tools you need to manage inventory, including real-time tracking and reporting, barcoding, cycle counting tools, and low stock alerts. You can also upgrade to the paid plan to access vendor management, purchase ordering, stock forecasting, bulk transfers, COGS tracking, and automated purchase order generation.
- Add-ons: Square offers a number of add-ons that are either free or a few dollars each month for tools like invoices, Open Tickets, Physical Gift Cards, Team Management, Cash Management, Loyalty, advanced Online functions, Subscriptions, and Text Message Marketing.
- Mobile Functionality: Square is our top pick for mobile POS and for good reason. Square offers a free POS app that is compatible with both Android and iOS devices. Not only that, Square offers mobile hardware, like card readers and POS terminals for handling mobile sales.
Square has some of the best and most affordable POS hardware on the market, with solutions for both in-store and mobile sales. Learn more with our Square POS review.
Shopify: Best for omnichannel sales
Cons
- Best-in-class ecommerce platform included in every account
- Tons of apps and upgraded plans to support your business
- Warehouse tracking (advanced warehouse management via apps)
Pros
- High price point for upgraded plans
- Pay third-party transaction fees if using a payment processor other than Shopify
Who should use it:
Furniture stores that make most of their sales online have a large omnichannel operation.
Why I like it:
Shopify is a top contender among small business retail POS systems. With affordable plans that include tools for streamlining in-store and online sales, managing inventory, fulfilling orders and handling deliveries, and even conducting mobile operations, Shopify has everything you could need to manage your retail furniture store.
Where Shopify really shines is its ecommerce platform — it is our pick for best overall small business ecommerce platforms and our top choice for omnichannel sales in this guide. Shopify offers BOPIS features, shipping discounts, centralized order management, and customer profiles that sync between branches.
Shopify scored points for its inventory tools and intuitive interface; it lost some points for its lack of built-in warehouse management and layaway options, as well as limited offline functionality. However, for almost every tool that Shopify lacks as an in-house solution, it has a third-party app to cover its bases. Note that those add-on fees can accumulate, though.
- Monthly Software Fees
- Basic: $39
- Shopify: $105
- Advanced: $399
- POS Pro: $89
- Save 25% by paying annually
- Processing Fees
- Automatic integrations with Shopify Payments
- Shopify Payments
- In person: 2.4%-2.6%
- Online: 2.5%-2.9% + 30 cents
- Third-party payment providers: 0.6%-2% (online only)
- Rates vary based on Shopify plan
- Shopify Ecommerce Platform: Shopify’s best-in-class ecommerce solution is included in every account. With tons of templates to choose from, custom branding opportunities, as well as add-on tools to customize your site and give it the functionality you need—Shopify ecommerce is the best out there.
- Brand Building: Shopify has tons of tools for building your brand, including a logo maker, business naming tools, QR code generators, and business card templates.
- Channel Integrations: Along with streamlining your in-store and ecommerce sales from your site, Shopify also has channel integrations for sales on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube, as well as Google and Walmart marketplaces.
- App Store Add-ons: With the Shopify App Store, you can search through hundreds of apps that you can add to your ecommerce store or POS system for added functionality—think tools like buy now, pay later (BNPL), AI chatbots, and product review add-ons.
- Discounted Shipping: Shopify is partnered with all the major shipping companies, like FedEx, UPS, USPS, DHL, and more, so that it can offer you up to 88% off standard shipping rates. Best of all, you can shop for discounted labels and compare rates and fulfillment times right from your POS.
- Delivery Tools: View orders and find discounted shipping labels from your Shopify POS dashboard. Not only that, there are dozens of free shipping and delivery apps in the Shopify app store that you can add to your POS and website so you can offer and manage additional delivery solutions.
- BNPL Integration: Add Affirm, Klarna, PayPal, or AfterPay to your in-store and online checkout by downloading their apps from the Shopify app store.
Hike: Best for flexibility
Pros
- Extensive inventory management and delivery tools
- Affordable monthly pricing with custom-quote option
- Full set of back-office tools
Cons
- Additional fees for delivery and loyalty features
- No free plan
Who should use it:
Furniture stores that want detailed inventory management and tracking, with a good variety of features; businesses prioritizing flexibility — Hike offers a large range of hardware bundles and accessories, compatibility with iOS and Android operating systems, and ability to run on PC, tablets, and mobile devices.
Why I like it:
Hike POS is a cloud-based retail software with lots of tools for furniture stores: inventory management with product variants, easy stock counting, integrated ecommerce, loyalty, customer purchase history, and more — all in a versatile POS system. It also offers many payment types including multi-currency support, plus 24/7 chat support.
You can run Hike on iOS and Android devices, and sell efficiently whether your business needs a countertop POS system or something more mobile like a tablet or smartphone. You can choose from tons of hardware options including full pre-built POS kits, printers, barcode scanners, cash drawers, and tablet stands — letting you build the exact POS setup you want for your store.
Hike’s main downside is that many features — including online selling, marketing integrations, and advanced loyalty and ordering features — are not available unless you upgrade your plan. Hike offers monthly plans starting at just $59 per month. The advanced plan will run you a reasonable $99 per month, and custom pricing is available for large businesses or franchises.
- Essential: $59
- Accounting integrations
- Basic product management
- Basic inventory and order management
- Basic reporting
- Plus: $99
- Marketing and scheduling integrations
- Integrated label printing
- Advanced inventory and order management
- Advanced customer profiles and reporting
- Enterprise: Custom quote
- Premium API access
- Dedicated account manager
- Customized onboarding
- +$39 per additional register for all plans
- POS flexibility: Hike is a flexible POS system that accommodates your preferences or circumstances. Whatever operating system or device you use when running the software, all data syncs to a central cloud-based database for easy use. The POS interface lets you customize details such as product options, categories, tax rules, and more. An offline mode is also available for when your internet connection goes down temporarily.
- Multiple payment types: The POS integrates with payment providers like PayPal, Tyro, and iZettle. Customers can pay via cards, checks, partial payments, deposits, layaway, or gift cards. You can also set your outstanding sales data to automatically be posted to your accounting system.
- Multilocation features: Consolidated reports are available to give you performance feedback for a particular branch, or for all branches in general. You can set individual access permissions for each employee, as well as track who works in which location. Consolidated customer profiles are also available, allowing you to track buyers’ purchases and loyalty rewards easily — no matter which branch they show up in.
How to Choose Furniture Store Software
When you are looking to buy furniture retail software, there are a few major steps you should take in order to pick the best option for your store.
Step 1: Look for Good Point of Sale Features
You need to be able to complete transactions to sell your goods, so a point-of-sale system should be the first thing you look for. In this guide, I looked at solutions that included a POS system integrated with inventory, CRM, and more — overall, a system that plays a central role in all of your furniture software tools.
Step 2: Prioritize Inventory Management
You should look for systems that have real-time tracking and reporting across sales channels as well as your warehouse (if applicable). Other great tools to look for include barcode scanning tools, vendor management options, and low-stock alerts.
Step 3: Check for Delivery Management Tools
Many furniture retail stores deliver most of their orders to customer residences. You should look for tools for ecommerce order management, local deliveries, and in-store pickups to ensure you can help customers with their needs.
Step 4: Check for Customer Financing Options
Furniture pieces are high-value items, and you will have an easier time converting customers if you are able to offer some sort of financing, whether that be buy-now-pay-later solutions or layaway options.
How I Evaluated Furniture Store Software
I looked at five major areas and 26 data points to evaluate the best furniture store software. These include inventory management tools, POS tools, pricing, ease of use, and an expert score based on FSB’s expert analysis and use experience. Click through the scorecard below to learn more about each category.
20% of Overall Score
In this section, I focused on scoring the best furniture store software based on its affordability and the tools you get for the price. I also looked at if there were plans to support businesses of different sizes, hardware options, and payment processing options and rates.
30% of Overall Score
In this category, I looked for features including purchase ordering, delivery management, inventory counting tools, real-time tracking, omnichannel management and multilocation syncing, warehouse management, and low stock alerts.
20% of Overall Score
For this category, I looked for CRM tools, staff management, returns and exchanges capabilities, layaway and BNPL functions, loyalty programs, and mobile capabilities.
15% of Overall Score
This category looked at user reviews, customer service availability and quality, as well as the number of online support forums and resources.
15% of Overall Score
Finally, I considered each system’s standout features and whether the software and hardware options offer a good overall value for the price. I also judged each system’s popularity and awarded points based on our personal experience interacting with the software.
Frequently asked questions (FAQs)
These are some questions we often see get asked about furniture store software.
The process is similar to starting any other business: write a business plan and get a loan if necessary. Then, you can scope out a location, acquire inventory, hire staff, and then market and open your store.
There is a wide range of pricing between different providers. Square, for example, offers a free plan and affordable (<$100) monthly upgrades, and is perfectly serviceable for small or mid-sized furniture stores. Lightspeed Retail offers more detailed inventory features, and can run you a few hundred dollars a month. STORIS offers only custom prices, but users report that these can be upwards of $500.
Use detailed product descriptions that include size, weight, material, and assembly information. Enhancing your brand image and improving your SEO practices will also help you capture more traffic. Many POS systems on this list include online store builders that have been crafted to maximize sales and make your store look as good as possible.
Bottom line
Furniture store software needs to serve an array of roles, from POS all the way to warehouse manager. In this guide, I compared the best furniture store software on the market so that you can find the tools you need to run your business. If you are ready to look further, visit STORIS to talk to a rep and get started with our top pick for the best furniture store software.