BalloonFlo
iPhone · coming soon

Less Time Doing Math.More Time Creating Magic.

Effortlessly generate quotes using client inspo photos or your own voice. BalloonFlo analyses design images or audio notes against your unique catalog, delivering client-ready proposals so you can stay focused on the art.

Balloon Garland
Per foot
Price
$22.00
Profit
47%
Cost
$11.60

Recipe

5" standard×8$0.52
11–13" standard×6$0.90
16–19" standard×2$0.92
260Q twisting balloons×1$0.10
Rubber bands×2$0.03
Labour0.15 h @ $60$9.00
Materials $2.47 · wastage $0.12 · labour $9.00$11.60
This is a real example of the cost breakdown.

Why this exists

Most of us are pricing from memory and vibes.

Not because we’re careless — because the math is genuinely hard and it always lands at the end of a twelve-hour install day.

The way it usually goes

A number that feels about right

  • Count the garland in your head, roughly
  • Add something for the frame, the drive, the setup
  • Round up because you’re tired, or down because you want the job
  • Find out at the end of the season whether it worked

With BalloonFlo

A number with a reason under it

  • Every build costed from real balloons, real supplies, real hours
  • Wastage and your labour rate already in the figure
  • Margin on screen before the proposal goes out, not after
  • Photograph a receipt and your costs update themselves

Three ways to quote

However the job arrives, quote it that way.

From a photo

Drop in the inspiration image your client sent. BalloonFlo works out what’s in it and prices each piece against your catalog.

Out loud

Talk through the job in the van on the way home. It comes back as a drafted proposal you can tidy.

By hand

Build it line by line from your own catalog when you already know exactly what you’re doing.

On the phone

A look at the app

The Image Quote screen, where an inspiration photo and the event details are entered.
Start with the photoAdd the image and the event details.
A finished proposal showing line items, delivery, tax and a total due.
Send a real proposalItemised, taxed, delivered, totalled.
The Pricing and Catalog screen with a balloon garland recipe open.
Keep your own pricesEvery recipe open and editable.
The home dashboard showing gross sales, closed bookings and upcoming events.
See the seasonSales, close rate, what’s overdue.

How it treats your business

It works around you, not the other way round.

Your prices win, always

BalloonFlo starts you off with a costed catalog so day one isn’t an empty app — then it never touches a price you’ve set. Change one and it stays changed.

You approve every number

Nothing quotes a job on your behalf. The app proposes; you tap to accept, or change it. It’s your name on the document.

The admin comes with it

Retainers paid from the proposal link, delivery charged by the mile from your address, your tax rate, and a nudge list for proposals nobody has answered.

Why I built it

My background is in finance, but the creative in me led me to the world of balloons and event styling six years ago. I love doing the installs, but like so many of us, I hated the endless quoting and the constant second-guessing of whether my prices were too high or too low.

I built BalloonFlo to solve that headache and to help our community quote faster, price accurately, and feel 100% confident in every proposal we send out.

Sid S.Balloon Stylist, South Florida
BalloonFlo — quote balloon installs from a photo