Carman vs FloorIQ

Carman is cloud-based business management software for flooring retailers, carpet shops, wholesalers, and contractors. It follows work from customer order through delivery and fitting, with flooring estimates, installation scheduling, invoicing, and payments. Stock management tracks multiple locations and products sold by pack, square metre, box, or length. Its CRM stores multiple names, addresses, and contact details for an organisation and links to Companies House and Royal Mail. Users can send quotes and invoices by email or SMS, create payment links, and track payments with reminders. Carman exports information to Sage, Xero, and QuickBooks, and lists Yoti Sign, Fidelity Payment, and Blink Payments integrations. The iOS and Android Companion App includes a diary, delivery checklist, device tracking, stock adjustments, job photos, and customer sign-off, with role-based permissions. A B2B portal uses the API to show live stock. Pricing is on request; demonstrations are free and no-obligation.

FloorIQ is web-based estimating, quoting, purchasing, and job-management software for commercial flooring contractors. Its workflow covers bids, quotes, purchase orders, warehouse inventory, crew scheduling, invoicing, payroll, and job profitability. Estimates use material-cost and labor-rate libraries, live margins, revisions, branded PDF proposals, and online signatures. Takeoff exports in.xlsx,.xls, or.csv format, including MeasureSquare exports, can be converted into takeoff line items. Purchasing includes order acknowledgements, price-variance tracking, roll and lot tracking, barcode cycle counts, delivery tickets, and reorder suggestions. Crew days connect to required purchase orders, and delivery-date changes flag affected scheduled days. Weekly payroll handles regular, overtime, double-time, classifications, weekly-salary employees, printable paystubs, and exports. FloorIQ exports financial and payroll data as CSV for QuickBooks posting, but has no live two-way sync. The free plan allows five projects with no time limit; Pro costs $500 a month per company for up to 10 users.