Reviews
We introduced Stager software into our business in March 2025. We are a mature staging company that has been operating in Melbourne for 9 years. In the early days when the business was just Fiona, she tracked her inventory using excel, however that quickly became problematic once additional staff came on. We then moved to another inventory management platform that we used for approximately 7 years, however it was a program originally written for equipment hire where the customer might typically hire one, or a small number of single items at a time. It really wasn’t fit for purpose in a styling business where potentially 100 individual items could be included in one particular job. It was very cumbersome and time sapping. Our stylists would spend the time planning, then packing furniture and accessories for an install, noting down each item as they went and then spend anything up to a couple of hours doing data entry to complete the job.
We attended the Australian Home Staging Conference in 2024 where we met Adrian at an evening networking function and he took us through a demo of STAGER. At last, an inventory management program for home staging that is designed and built by a home stager!
Fiona and I instantly started thinking of the time saving this could bring to our business and came up with a figure of 2-3 hours on average PER JOB! This would be a game changer in our little business if that was to become a reality.
We had several conversations with Adrian and Andrea so they understood the functions and processes that we had in place in our business. There were a few little tweaks that were added, and I think some of our processes may have even been adopted into their styling business in NZ which is great. Collaboration at its finest!
We did the full integration in March 2025, which was later than we had anticipated but Fiona and I have both lived through systems changes in previous jobs and understood that these always cause some level of disruption to your operation so we tested, and tested to ensure there would be as close to ‘no surprises’ as possible.
The RESULT?
It is everything we expected. The sketchy guestimate of 2-3 hours saved has proven to be very accurate. By the time our stylist has bags and tubs of accessories are packed for an install in our warehouse they are already loaded into STAGER against the job and there is no further data entry required. We know exactly where all our furniture and accessories are, when they are due back, and in time as data history builds we will see exactly how many times each item has been used, where it was used etc which will help with managing our stock life cycles. Our staff have taken to it with ease.
We are still working through some minor things with Adrian but he has been awesome to partner with, and we see no issues there.
There have been many milestones along our business journey but the decision to move to STAGER has been up there amongst the most significant. It has had a huge positive impact for us, and we would not only highly recommend it, but be happy to talk to other styling businesses considering this program.
Gareth & Fiona Walker
Perfectly Presented Properties
Melbourne, Australia