GarmentFlow Implementation Checklist

A step-by-step path from an empty site to your first production order. Work top to bottom and tick each box as you go. Each section links to its full guide when you want the detail.

1 · ERPNext basics

The financial foundation. Most of this is set up on install — confirm it and tidy it. → ERP Setup

• [ ] Company. Your legal identity — name, country and currency. Created on install; confirm it.
• [ ] Users. Add the people who will use GarmentFlow and give each of them the right role.
• [ ] Chart of accounts. The buckets your money flows through. Review the default set and rename to match how you think about the business.
• [ ] Taxes. Set up the tax you charge and pay (VAT / IVA / GST) once, so it fills in automatically on every invoice.

2 · HRMS basics

Your people and how they are paid. → HR & Payroll Setup

• [ ] Departments and designations. Your teams — Cutting, Sewing, Finishing — and the job titles people hold.
• [ ] Employees. Add your workforce. Import a spreadsheet if you have many to enter.
• [ ] Shifts and attendance. Define working hours and how you will record who showed up.
• [ ] Payroll. Build your salary structure now, so you can run pay when you are ready.

3 · GarmentFlow masters

The masters that make GarmentFlow speak garments. → Production Setup · Design Masters

• [ ] GarmentFlow Settings. The master switchboard — the behaviours and defaults that fit how your factory runs, including Cost Per Minute.
• [ ] Brands. The labels you produce for, whether your own or your customers'.
• [ ] Divisions, Fits and Types. How you slice your catalogue — Division (Menswear), Fit (Slim), Type (T-shirt, which is an Item Group).
• [ ] Fabrics and composition. Your materials and what they are made of. Fabric feeds costing, wash care and the bill of materials.
• [ ] Size Charts and Points of Measurement. The measurements that define each size, reused across every style.
• [ ] Production Units. Your internal lines and sections, plus any outside workshops you send work to.
• [ ] Assembly Operations and Operator Skills. The steps that build a garment and the skill each one needs — your routing vocabulary.

4 · Your first style

Design a garment GarmentFlow can make. → Design

• [ ] Tech Pack. Create your first style with its full spec — materials, colours and measurements in one place.
• [ ] Sizes, variants and BOM. List the sizes and colours you will make, and the materials each unit needs.
• [ ] Pattern. Attach the pattern pieces so the style is ready to cut.

5 · Suppliers and stock

Get materials into GarmentFlow. → Logistics

• [ ] Suppliers. Add who you buy fabric and trims from.
• [ ] Warehouses. Name your storage and work-in-progress locations.
• [ ] Opening stock. Tell GarmentFlow what you already have on hand, or receive your first purchase.

6 · Production

Make something. → Production

• [ ] Production Order. Open your first order for a quantity of a style, and plan it into batches.
• [ ] Marker and cutting. Lay the pattern pieces out to save fabric, then cut.
• [ ] Batch cards. Track pieces through each operation as they move across the floor.

7 · Quality control

Check it, then ship it. → Quality

• [ ] Inspections. Check work in-line and at the end against your standards.
• [ ] Dispatch. Send finished, passed goods out the door.

8 · Go live

Before you rely on GarmentFlow for real work, take one style all the way through it — design, cut, sew, inspect, dispatch. A single style end to end will surface a missing operation, an unset warehouse or a wrong Cost Per Minute while it is still cheap to fix.

• [ ] Run one style end to end. If it flows cleanly, you are live.