You priced the shirt at 4,200. What did it cost to make?
Knowing what the thing cost. Materials go to the floor, some come back, some are wasted, and finished goods have to be valued on what genuinely went into them rather than an estimate from last season.
Sound familiar?
If none of these are your business, this probably is not the page for you — and we would rather you found that out here than on a call.
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You priced the shirt at 4,200. Nobody in the building can tell you what it cost to make.
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Cloth went to the floor in March. Some came back, some did not, and the difference was never written down anywhere.
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The karigar’s rate changed in January and the costing sheet still carries the old one.
Recipes, work in progress and the true cost of a finished piece.
What you will be looking at
The screens this trade lives in
Every one of these exists today. Nothing here is something we would build for you later — that part has its own heading further down.
Designs & costing
The recipe for a piece — cloth, trims, labour — with the vendor who quoted each rate.
Materials needed
What has to be bought for the orders on the book, raised as a demand sheet the floor can work from.
Production stages
Where each order is: cutting, stitching, finishing — and how long it has been there.
Stock against orders
What is reserved for whom, so an order is not promised cloth that is already spoken for.
Cost vs selling price
Every design ranked by the thinnest margin first, before the season prices itself wrong.
Gate
Scan a piece out, scan it back in, and the sale drafts itself from the scan.
What it already does
About the hard part
- Bills of material per product
- Material issue and work in progress carried properly
- Job and batch costing against what it was meant to cost
Usually built on top
Costing that follows your own process — piece rate, lot tracking, or a wastage rule that matches the cloth.
Scoped and quoted in writing before anything is built, and it ships into your own books — so a custom report reconciles to the statutory ones rather than disagreeing with them.
How custom work fits in →Not quite your trade?
The ledger underneath is the same one. What changes is the costing, the chart of accounts and which screens you open first.
Bring a bill you have not entered yet
We photograph it on the call and you watch the draft entry come back. It is a better demonstration than anything we could write here.