Release Notes

What's new in GarmentFlow, newest first. Links go to the full documentation for each feature.

20 August 2026 — Guided Setup and the GarmentFlow Setup workspace

• Guided Setup — an eight-step wizard covering brands, seasons, product categories, costing and warehouses, machine asset categories, units and work centers, operator skills, and employees.
• Each step explains what the data is for and where it is used. Progress is read from your data, so records entered by hand count as done.
• Cost per minute can be calculated from salary, hours per day, days per month and efficiency.
• Seeded content: a full apparel item-group tree to trim down, 29 operator skills with rating descriptions in four languages, and eight asset categories matched to your chart of accounts.
• A setup card with a progress meter appears on the Production, Design, Logistics and Quality workspaces until setup is complete.
• GarmentFlow Setup — a permanent workspace listing every master and settings record used by GarmentFlow, ERPNext and HR, in ten groups, marked green once records exist. Rows you cannot read are hidden.
• A QR code on that page opens the floor apps on a phone.
• Canvas gained a component library, mirror tools and stitch geometry for fashion flats.

What this means: you can set up a new site by following eight steps in order, and check at any time which parts of the configuration are still missing.

12 August 2026 — Bulk edits in Batch Flow, cutting wizard refinements

• Assign a production unit to every batch at an operation in one action, with the unit's warehouse applied.
• Submit and start a selection of batches in one action.
• The Batch Flow Map now uses one shared backend for both the Production Order form and the Production Overview page, so the two always show the same data.
• Marker suggestion and lay planning improvements in the cutting wizard.

What this means: you can assign units and start batches for a whole operation at once instead of opening each batch.

10 August 2026 — Machines on the Production App, cutting by marker

• The Production App has a Machines tab: the unit's work centers, a machine grid coloured by health, machine detail with repair history and upcoming maintenance, and actions to report or resolve a breakdown.
• The Cutting App has a By Marker tab: pending cuts grouped by marker, showing how many cutting orders and production orders are waiting on each one.
• Composite cuts — where one lay covers several orders, handing off moves all of them together.
• Items can declare which machine types they fit, which builds the per-machine spare parts list.

What this means: a mechanic can report a broken machine from the floor, and the cutting room can cut every order that shares a marker in one go.

8 August 2026 — Maintenance workspace

• Work Centers — stations inside a Production Unit, with their own capacity, cutting limits, hourly cost (electricity, consumables, rent, labour) and daily manning. Replaces Production Station; existing records were renamed automatically.
• Work Center Types hold an icon, colour and default cutting limits for new stations of the same kind.
• A floor layout per work center: set rows and columns and drag machines into position.
• Machine health is derived from records, not entered. An open repair, an Out of Order status or an overdue maintenance task colours the machine, its work center and the floor board.
• Floor Monitor — a board covering every internal unit, refreshing every 30 seconds, with 90-day availability, MTTR, MTBF and downtime.
• Breakdowns are recorded as ERPNext Asset Repairs, assigned to Manufacturing Managers, and escalated once after four hours if still open.
• Preventive maintenance uses Asset Maintenance. Tasks due within 30 days are shown on the workspace, overdue ones in red. A starter library of machine types and two service checklists ship seeded.
• Spare parts — a seeded Machine Part item tree with seven families, and a per-machine list built from declared compatibility and actual consumption.
• Machine Maintenance report — breakdowns, MTTR, downtime and availability per machine.
• QR labels: design a label, print it from the Asset list, and scanning it opens a machine page with stats when running and a repair screen when down. Reporting a fault needs no login; logging a fix does.

What this means: you can view all your machines in one view, know which ones are up for maintenance and which ones are broken down.

6 August 2026 — Closing out Production Orders, per-operation capacity, ledger accuracy

• Finish Production Order — a manual close for Manufacturing Managers and System Managers, with a per-batch report on operations done, cost data present and material consumed.
• Blockers prevent the close: an unsubmitted order, no active batches, or any batch On Hold. Warnings must be acknowledged.
• Closing scraps remaining WIP with one ledger entry per operation, so each batch balances, and records what was done as a comment on the order.
• Reopen returns a closed order to Released.
• The cost check flags operation steps missing a cost source, supplier, service item or estimate — steps that cannot produce an actual cost.
• Capacity is declared per operation on a Production Unit, each row with its own method (SMV, cycle time or units per hour).
• An operation a unit does not declare cannot be scheduled there, and a work center running one will not save.
• Operation Ledger entries validate and inherit the destination operation's production unit and stamp it on the destination step.
• Gantt readability improvements on the schedule view.

What this means: you can close a finished order, and see per batch whether operations, cost data and material are complete before you do.

3 August 2026 — Subcontracting completed, notification digests

• Subcontract costing — a subcontractor is billed as labour only; material stays on your books, so there is no goods transfer to reconcile.
• Negotiated per-piece rates are recorded on the operation step, with the Tech Pack cost shown as a reference.
• Billable quantity comes from the operation ledger: pieces completed at the operation, net of the subcontractor's scrap, counted once even after rework.
• Subcontract Billing Worksheet — pull a supplier's billable work into a grid, adjust rates, and submit to generate the bill. The worksheet then locks, so the same work cannot be billed twice.
• A Get Items From → Subcontracted Work button on draft Purchase Invoices and Orders.
• Cost returns to each step through the Subcontract Cost Allocation table, always net of tax, created on submit and removed on cancel, with a daily reconcile job as backup.
• Three reports: Billing Queue, Three-Way (earned vs committed vs invoiced) and Reconciliation.
• Email digests — production, design, logistics and quality summaries sent to the matching role, daily, weekly on Mondays and monthly on the 1st, at 07:00. Daily digests are not sent when there is nothing to report.
• Digests use the same data as the workspaces, and are sent in each recipient's language.

What this means: you can bill subcontracted work from what production actually completed, and check invoiced quantities against it. Managers receive a summary by email without opening a dashboard.

1 August 2026 — Cutting defects, printing, and the cut calendar

• Log a fabric fault from the Cutting App with its variant and ply, and mark its position on the marker image. A ruler shows the position in metres.
• Defect types come from the QC defect categories, and can be limited to the cutting operation.
• Cut without held — cut the remainder of a lay and leave defect-held pieces out of the handover.
• Cut Calendar — every cutting order on an order shown on a month grid, coloured by production unit, with per-size quantities and marker ratio on hover. Drag a card onto a day to schedule it.
• Non-working days are shaded from each production unit's holiday list; full holidays and half-days are shown differently.
• Cutting orders from other production orders are shown greyed, so you can schedule around them.
• Submitted cutting orders are locked and cannot be rescheduled. Drafts move freely, and a failed save returns the card to its previous day.
• Print a cutting order from the app.
• The Cutting App's Plan tab shows the same schedule as a day view, with overdue cuts in their own group.

What this means: you can record where on the marker a fabric fault was found, and schedule cutting orders by dragging them onto a calendar.

29–31 July 2026 — Cutting wizard, the Cutting App, and Tech Pack safeguards

• Cutting wizard — three steps on the Production Order. Fabric: sort materials into primary and secondary. Markers: choose markers, with best-fit suggestion, reuse from the library, draft new, or one per size. Cut: set plies per colourway, with auto-fill and a size check.
• Every required size must be covered before you can continue.
• Create cut plan builds the marker orders, production batches and cutting orders in one pass, including secondary cuts attached to the right primary batch. Any variance against the order must be acknowledged first.
• Re-running the wizard adds to the plan; work already cut is left alone.
• Cutting App — a separate app for the cutting room, built around four stages: make the marker, spread the fabric, cut the plies, hand over. Includes roll scanning, ply confirmation, a stopwatch that survives the screen going off for up to three hours, a handoff checklist with per-size shortages, and a completion report.
• Tech Pack safeguards — submitting warns about key fields left blank (pattern, fabric, images). Those fields can be filled in later while blank, but not changed once set.
• Post-submit maintenance: add or remove a variant or size, or rebuild the BOM, on a submitted pack, keeping the BOM, registry and items in step.
• Bundle Builder — combine two or more Tech Packs into sellable kits, matching sizes across packs that use different size systems.
• Sales Order → Production Order — create a production order from a sales order in one click, carrying sizes, variants, quantities and the customer.

What this means: you can create the markers, batches and cutting orders for a whole plan in three steps, and the cutting room works from its own app.