Arrangement library and snapshots

When to use this

Use this page when you want to understand the difference between reusable library arrangements and live event arrangements.

Library templates

Library arrangements act as reusable recipes for bouquets, centerpieces, and other repeatable work. They store the structure, ingredient list, labor, and markup defaults your team wants to reuse. Ingredient quantities do not have to be whole numbers: a recipe can call for 0.3 stems per piece — the way a single bloom stretches across several boutonnières — and quantities keep up to three decimal places, on recipes and templates alike.

Manage your templates from Library → Templates in the sidebar. From there you can rename, duplicate, or delete a template. Deleting a template does not change events that already use it — each event keeps its own copy.

Event arrangements

When you add a library template to an event, BloomBoard creates an event-specific arrangement rather than leaving it linked as a live template. That event arrangement can then:

• hold event quantity and notes
• carry current pricing snapshots
• support purchase and rental item behavior
• be refined without changing the original library template

Why snapshot pricing exists

Snapshot fields preserve the item details and costs that were true when the arrangement was added to the event. That protects live commercial work from quiet changes in the catalog.

What this means in practice

• Your library is the reusable starting point.
• Your event arrangement is the commercial record for that job.
• If costs or dates change later, review the event arrangement before sending the proposal.

Related pages

• Add arrangements from a template
• Create and send a proposal
• Why do arrangement costs look different from the library?