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Garment costing

Real cost per garment, while it runs

Stop waiting for end-of-month accounting. See fabric at landed cost and labour at scanned piece rates. A losing style shows itself in week one.

$0 Design · $179 Studio · $450 Factory M — prices on the page.

Cost per garment on a production order: the tech pack's quote against the actual, materials and services, measured so far

Running under quote

  • Quoted$4.96
  • Actual, same part$2.38
posted as work is scanned
A tech pack's costs: direct, indirect and import cost, total cost, markup, selling rate and margin

01 · The cost sheet

The cost sheet starts in design

BOM, consumption, trims and operations come from the tech pack. Change the fabric and the cost changes.

Labour on the batchexample

Sewing 20.9 min
$2.09
Cutting
$0.31
Finishing and packing
$0.42
Labour per jean
$2.82
from the scanned minutes

02 · LabourStudio and up

Labour from the line

Every operation is scanned on the line. Minutes per garment are what happened, and they roll into the cost the same day. If you pay by the piece, the same scans are the payroll.

03 · FabricStudio and up

Fabric at landed cost

What the roll cost to land — not the price on the quote.

04 · VarianceStudio and up

Quoted versus actual, every style

The number you sold at and the number it cost, on one screen, with the difference. That difference is your next quote.

05 · AccountingStudio and up

Accounting underneath

Full double-entry ledger, multi-currency, tax. Every cut, operation and invoice posts as it happens.

My morning routine used to be chasing supervisors for cost updates. Now I check the dashboard with my coffee and know our line margins before the shift even starts.

Rene Zotti · General Manager, INDOPAR

17% below quote

One INDOPAR style: quoted $5.61, actual $4.63 — 13% less fabric used and a 9% lower fabric price, partly offset by higher stitching cost.

Connected to the rest

Costing is where the thread ends. Orders set the price. Materials supply the fabric cost. Production supplies the minutes and the defects. Costing puts them on one line per style and feeds the next quotation.

Questions

Can I cost a style before I have an order?

Yes — on the free Design plan. Cost sheet, margin, what-if on fabric.

Where does labour cost come from?

Scanned minutes × the rate per operation or per operator.

What about my contador?

It's a full ledger. Most factories run it as the book and export to their accountant monthly for filing.

Pricing

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Priced by the size of your factory, not per user. Unlimited devices on every plan. Cancel whenever.

  • Design Design Teams $0 free, for good
  • Studio ≤30 Operators $179 a month
  • Factory M 31–100 Operators $450 a month
  • Factory L 101–300 Operators $900 a month
  • Factory XL 301–700 Operators $1,800 a month
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