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Building-products distributors · Florida
Software for Florida building-products distributors.
Futurise builds contractor ordering portals, quote-to-order desks and delivery tracking for Florida building-products and construction-supply distributors — businesses selling to contractors on account, quoting by the job, delivering to a site that changes, and holding pricing and credit terms in a spreadsheet.
Futurise is a remote studio with a US line, +1 (954) 469-9764, answered at any hour. We have no Florida office and don't pretend to; we meet in Florida for the projects that call for it.
See it first, on fictional data: orders.futurise.studio is a wholesale ordering portal and factory.futurise.studio a production tracker.
A building-products distributor's customer is a contractor with a job, a deadline and a credit line. The order is a quote first, then a release against the quote, then a delivery to a site that may not have an address yet, then a partial, then a return. Most of that lives on paper and in the head of the counter person who knows every contractor by truck.
We build the desk that holds the job: the quote, the releases against it, the credit hold that stops an order before it ships instead of after, the delivery with a site contact and a window. The contractor gets a portal that shows their open quotes, their releases and their invoices, on a phone, from the site.
Florida adds its own pressure — the storm season pushes volume into weeks, not months, and the counter cannot scale. A first build takes the routine releases off the counter so the people are free for the jobs that need them.
Where it breaks
The four things we keep finding.
The quote in a binder
Priced by hand, released by phone, invoiced from memory. When the contractor disputes it, the binder is the evidence.
Credit hold discovered at the dock
The order was picked before anyone checked the account. Now it is a conversation on the loading bay.
Delivery to 'the new house on Palm'
The site has no address yet, the driver has a phone number, and the window was agreed verbally.
Storm-season volume on a fixed counter
Every contractor in the county calls the same week. The counter is the ceiling.
What we build
One slice first, then the next.
The one slice of your order flow costing you hours today: an ordering portal, an order desk or a production tracker. Then the next.
Contractor ordering portal
Open quotes, releases, invoices and reorders per account, with the account's own pricing, usable from a job site on a phone.
Quote-to-order desk
Quote, release, partial and return as one record; credit checked at entry, not at the dock.
Delivery tracking
Site contact, window, driver, proof of delivery — attached to the order, not to a text thread.
AI order intake
Releases that arrive by email or photo read against the open quote and drafted for approval.
On the ground
What’s actually different here.
Every local fact carries its source and its year.
Florida has 1,572 lumber and construction-materials wholesalers employing 20,788 people, and 1,505 hardware, plumbing and HVAC-equipment wholesalers employing 18,957.
Within construction materials: 548 lumber, plywood and millwork wholesalers, 346 brick, stone and masonry, 317 roofing, siding and insulation, 361 other.
Miami-Dade has 277 construction-materials wholesalers, Broward 147, Orange 125, Hillsborough 122, Palm Beach 103, Duval 92.
Florida holds 8.7% of all US construction-materials wholesalers (computed from the 2023 state and national files).
Straight answers
The questions, answered up front.
Our counter staff know every contractor. Won't software get in their way?
It should get out of their way. The build takes the routine releases — the contractor who wants the same load again — and puts them on a portal, so the counter's time goes to the quotes and the jobs that need a person. If the software adds steps for your best counter person, we built the wrong thing and we will fix it.
Can it check credit before an order ships?
Yes. A credit or approval step between the customer pressing submit and the order becoming real is one of the four things that make a custom build worth it over an off-the-shelf portal. It stops the order at entry, visibly, with a reason.
Can we see it before we call?
Yes: orders.futurise.studio is a live wholesale ordering portal and factory.futurise.studio a live production tracker, both on fictional data. We don't show client screens or name clients — every Florida client we have is confidential — so the demos are the proof.
What does it cost?
There is no price list, because there is no standard build. You get a fixed price in writing after a 20-minute call, before any work starts. Most first builds go live in two to four weeks, training is part of the build, and 30 days of care are included. Call +1 (954) 469-9764 or book at futurise.studio/book .
Are you based in Florida?
No. Futurise is a remote studio with a US line answered at any hour, and we meet in Florida for the projects that call for it.
Bring the step that breaks.
Twenty minutes with the person who builds, on a US line, any hour. Not in Florida? The same builds, for distributors anywhere in the US.
shivam@futurise.studio · any time, day or night