Garments & Boutique System
Size and colour tracked per article, so you know it is the medium in black that is finished, not the shirt.
In a garments shop the item is not the item. One article exists in five sizes and four colours, and those twenty combinations sell at completely different speeds. A stock report saying you hold thirty shirts is worse than useless when the two sizes customers keep asking for ran out a week ago.
The business also runs in seasons. A lawn collection, a winter range or an Eid stock arrives, has a short window, and whatever is left becomes a discount decision. What gets built is scoped to how you code your articles and how your season really moves, because a boutique with its own stitching is a different shape from a retailer buying finished stock.
What it fixes
- Stock counted by article rather than by size and colour, which hides the only shortage that matters
- No visibility of which sizes and colours are selling, so the next purchase repeats the last purchase's mistakes
- Last season's stock on a rack with no record of how long it has been there or what it cost
- Exchanges and returns, very common in garments, handled on trust with no way to check what was sold or at what rate
- Sale periods applied by hand, so the same piece goes out at three different prices in one week
- Alteration and stitching jobs promised by a date and tracked in a notebook that lives with one person
What gets built
A starting point, not a fixed list. The build is scoped to your own process before anything is written.
Size and colour matrix
One article with its variants as a grid, so purchase, sale and stock all happen at the level the customer actually buys at.
Article coding and labels
Your own article numbering with barcode labels printed per variant, including for stock that arrives from the supplier unlabelled.
Season and ageing
Stock grouped by collection or season with its arrival date visible, so a markdown decision rests on how long a piece has sat rather than how it looks on the rack.
Exchange and return
A sale traceable from the receipt or the barcode, with exchange and return recorded against it, stock corrected, and the original selling rate still visible.
Sale and discount control
Discounts set by article, category or season for a defined period and applied at the counter automatically, rather than negotiated by whoever is standing there.
Alteration and stitching jobs
Jobs with measurements, charges, a promised date and a status, whether the work is in-house or sent to a master outside.
Who this is for
Garments retailers, boutiques and unstitched fabric shops where one article spans many sizes and colours and where seasonal stock turning into dead stock is a recurring loss. One shop to a handful of outlets is the useful range. It is not worth it for a small stall holding a few dozen pieces the owner can see at a glance, and variant tracking only pays off if someone will label and receive stock properly at every delivery. In a shop where cartons get emptied straight onto the rack, the data will be wrong within a fortnight.
Questions
Our supplier stock arrives with no barcodes and sizes unmarked.
That is the normal situation, and it means labelling becomes part of your goods-receiving routine. Expect to add an hour or two of someone's time per delivery. If nobody will do that step, be honest about it now, because variant-level stock without variant-level receiving is a report that lies.
Can it handle stock we take from a supplier on consignment?
Yes, and it should be designed in rather than bolted on, because consignment changes when a purchase is recognised and what you owe. Tell us during scoping if part of your rack is not actually yours.
We have two shops. Can they see each other's stock?
They can, and in garments it is genuinely useful, because the size a customer wants is often in the other branch. It does add a dependency on a working connection between the two and on someone recording transfers properly. If your second shop sits in an area with poor connectivity, say so before we design it that way.
Tell us how your shop runs.
We scope it first — what it takes, how long, what it costs. No obligation.