Brand

Brand is a standard ERPNext doctype, extended by GarmentFlow into one of the most powerful masters you'll set up. Wherever something belongs to a particular brand identity — a Tech Pack, a print format, a purchase order — the Brand field decides which logo, conventions and defaults apply.

Create one Brand per brand you produce for. Even if you only have one, create it — Tech Packs and reports expect it to be there. If you produce for external clients, the Brand record carries their logo and address, and you can configure brand-specific portal settings if you're inviting them in to follow their orders.

What makes Brand worth its own page is everything GarmentFlow layers on top of the standard record. A Brand doesn't just label a Tech Pack — it pre-loads it. Set a Brand up well and creating a Tech Pack becomes mostly review-and-adjust instead of build-from-scratch. There are three places that magic comes from: label designs, the Raw Material Template, and measurement defaults.

Labels: washcare, hangtag, carton

Under the Labels tab, a Brand holds three label designs — Washcare, Hangtag and Carton — the artwork that prints onto every garment and box you produce for that brand. Each opens in the Label Designer, a visual drag-and-drop editor where you bind text, fields, barcodes and images to live data so every Tech Pack and production batch reuses the same on-brand artwork without redrawing anything per style. For the full walkthrough — designing, page sizing, pulling in data, barcodes, and import/export — see Brand Labels — Washcare, Hangtag, and Carton.

Raw Material Template

The Raw Material Template is the feature that pays for the whole Brand record. Instead of adding the same buttons, woven labels, hangtags and thread spec by hand to every Tech Pack, you list a brand's full material vocabulary once — each line with a quantity, a cost, and filters that say when it applies — and GarmentFlow drops the right materials into each Tech Pack automatically, so costing stays correct and nothing gets missed. For how to build the template, the filter rules, and worked examples, see Brand Raw Material Template.

Measurement defaults: Points of Measurement (POMs)

Different brands measure garments differently — different points, different tolerances, different growth allowances. Under the Pattern Defaults tab, a Brand carries its Default Points of Measurement: each POM with its tolerance and growth value, and a garment Type so the list stays relevant.

This front-loads work that would otherwise fall on the pattern maker. Because the brand's expected POMs, tolerances and growth are already on record, you know up front exactly what the brand looks at when approving a piece — no guessing, no back-and-forth after the sample.

As with materials, the Type filter keeps each measurement where it belongs: a pant has no armhole, a shirt has no front rise, so you tag POMs to the garment type they apply to and the irrelevant ones never clutter the list.

What to do next

Setting a Brand up fully is more work than the other masters — but it's the work that makes every later Tech Pack faster. Fill in the logo and address first, then build the Raw Material Template (start broad, add specifics), then the measurement defaults. When you're ready to use it all, see Sizes, variants, and the bill of materials.