As far as the situation in the state of California is concerned, following information is considered helpful to the best of our belief and knowledge. In order to become a florist, it is necessary to satisfy following conditions:
1. Earn minimum required skills of flower arrangement.
2. Get a fund (capital) for starting business as a florist.
3. Get a shop of florist (buying or leasing a floral shop)
4. Get a business license from a city of your floral shop
5. Get a seller's permit/resale license from the authority
The easiest one is number 4 and 5. You can get
both of them quite easily by way of making application to the authority.
I have never heard that the authority refused to issue a business
license or resale license. As far as you satisfy easy conditions
provided by the authority, you can get these license/permit almost
automatically. As you know, business license is mandatory to do any kind
of business in the United States. Seller's permit/resale license is
required if you run a floral shop so you resell flowers (and also any
other tangible property) to your own customers as a retailer. If you are
engaged in selling merchandise to end users (like an individual buyer
who comes to your shop for buying flowers), resale license is required
to collect a sales tax from your customers. When you go to
wholesaler(flower market) to procure flower materials, you are required
to submit a seller's permit/resale license in order to buy flowers at a
wholesale price.
Next one is getting a flower shop where you sell flowers and other related merchandise. You can lease a shop or buy a
florist in the market. There are so many flower shops for sales in the
market. Therefore it is up to you which way you choose, leasing or
buying.
The difficult one is how to make money and save
money to start your florist business. In order to operate a floral shop,
you need a certain amount of money with which you can run a sound cash
flow. If your fund is too small in its amount, you will face
difficulties for procuring flowers, paying a monthly rent of your floral
shop (in case you lease a shop), paying a monthly mortgage (in case you
buy a floral shop with a loan from a lender) and paying monthly
wage/salary to your employee(s) if you have any employee.
Even if
you clear all above things, you are unable
to do a business as a florist. Yes, you need a minimum required skill
of flower arrangements. For earning this skill, we recommend you to take
lessons for learning how to make floral designs. There are many flower
arranging instructors or floral design schools who teach you floral
arranging.
California Flower Art Academy offers a
WIDE RANGE OF PROGRAMS
for various kinds of floral designs according to your purpose, goal,
taste and also the type of decoration you want to learn, such as
wedding floral decorations or funeral flower arrangement or just simple designs which can be sold at the shop on a daily basis. You can start from
Introductory Program
for only $98. If you have any questions about taking lessons of floral
arrangements,please do not hesitate to contact info@california-academy.com We are
more than happy to help you earn practical skills of floral designs at
affordable prices.