Custom designed bench cards can dramatically increase garden center sales.
This bench card is used by the Independent Garden Centers that are members of the
Grow Native! program which is part of the Missouri Department of Agriculture. Members access the cards after logging into a secure
Members' Only area.
This 7" X 11" bench card was designed for
Dyck Arboretum in Hesston, KS. There is a map of Kansas showing all counties and where the plant is native. It also has images at the bottom left of 2 companion plants.
This is a card produced by
www.POPsigage.com which can produce customized 5"x7" and 7"x11" plant bench cards in a number of different styles.
This is a card produced by
www.POPsigage.com. It is the same variety as the previous image but has a different card design and is a vertical card instead of horizontal.
Blue Bird Nursery customers can
login and modify (1) description, (2) additional info &(3) Price. They associate a logo (4) with their login and it will be displayed on all of their cards.
The characteristics icons are shown as examples only and are not correct for this plant.
In this example, SummerWinds Garden centers can easily modify the image and (1) description, (2) Cross Merchandising (3) Size and (4) Pricing.
This is a card produced by
www.POPsigage.com which can produce customized 5"x7" and 7"x11" plant bench cards in a number of different styles.
This is a card produced by
www.POPsigage.com which can produce customized 5"x7" and 7"x11" plant bench cards in a number of different styles.
This is a 'general' card for Pansies vs. a variety specific card.
plant bench cards
In this example, SummerWinds Garden centers can easily modify the image and (1) description, (2) Cross Merchandising (3) Size and (4) Pricing.
The Bench Card Wizard™ is a secure internet based system that allows authorized garden centers the ability to customize and print high resolution plant bench cards for Display in garden centers. Users can print them on their own printer or order them online. The custom design is developed jointly by us and and our customers to meet their requirements. Click through the examples above to get a feel for design styles. The standard system offers cards in the two most widely used sizes:
However, we can design virtually any size card to work with the Bench Card Wizard.
Creating the Plant Bench Cards
Authorized users can login to change modifiable fields such as descriptions, pricing, sizes, images, companion plants, declaration of net contents and responsibility and any other modifiable fields included in the custom design.
There will be a number of ways to select bench cards to print or order:
- Select All (all active/published records will be selected). Note: This process will create one large PDF file.
- Select Records modified since MM/DD/YY. Note: This process will create one PDF file, with all the cards.
- Select Individual record(s).
Bench Card Systems for Growers
We have also designed several systems for growers that sell to Independent Garden Centers. Their customers can login to their site and upload a logo to be included on all cards they modify and print or order online. See the last example at the top of this page.
www.POPsignage.com
With
www.POPSignage.com you can login and select from thousands of plant records to create customized bench cards. You will be able to change fields such as price, cross merchandising statements, Declaration of Responsibility, Declaration of Net Contents and more. You can create your own account and create sample cards at no cost. With an annual subscription of $500, you can generate cards you can use in your garden center. If you have questions after reviewing the site, please contact Timothy Howard, (919) 577-9901 or send him an e-mail at
timothy@clarity-connect.com.
Extensive Plant Library
Every plant in the database has at least one high resolution image, and a majority have more than one image to select from. If you have a better image of your own, you can use it.
