Guides for designing, making and shipping garments — and for running the business behind them.
Architecture You don't need this page to add a field. You need it to understand why the rest of this section works the way it does, and to make good decisions when a customization gets compl …
Glossary Garment manufacturing and ERP terms used across GarmentFlow. Grouped by area — skim the section you're working in, or search the page for a term. Platform basics These come from Frappe/E …
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 guid …
Publishing a Product A Published Tech Pack is the customer-facing face of a Tech Pack . One record per product you want to sell. The split is deliberate. The Tech Pack is a working document that change …
Brand Raw Material Template This is the feature that pays for the whole Brand record. Every brand has materials that are special to it — its own buttons, its own woven labels, its own hangtags …
Logistics Tab The Logistics tab is where the Tech Pack stops being a design document and starts being a manufacturing document. It plays three roles at once: Sourcing document. It tells the purchasing …
Tech Pack Workflow A Tech Pack doesn't move from blank to Production Ready in one step, and it shouldn't. The workflow exists for a specific reason:
Getting Started Create your GarmentFlow site, sign in, and run the setup wizard. Allow about 15 minutes. What you need before you start The email address and password you want to use for the administr …
Tech Pack A Tech Pack is the single source of truth for a
Batch Planning Batch planning is where a Production Order goes from "a big intent" to "a list of batches the floor can actually run." It lives on two tabs: Cut Plan , where lays and cuts are …
Spare Parts Needles, loopers, feed dogs, presser feet, bobbins, belts, motors, blades. Every plant carries them; most track them badly, because they sit in the same Item table as fabric and fi …
Operations and Steps The Operations section on a Production Batch is the list of steps the cut bundles will go through before they become finished goods. Cutting → Stitching → Wash → Pressing → …
Patterns A Pattern in GarmentFlow is the measurement and assembly intelligence behind a
Production Batch A Production Batch is what actually runs on the floor. It's a slice of a Production Order that travels together — same cut, same line, same path — from spreading through finishing. Ever …
Registry and Barcodes Barcodes aren't required in GarmentFlow — but they are an industry standard, and most retailers, distributors, and warehouses expect them. The Registry tab is where you decide h …
Material Reconciliation The Material Reconciliation dashboard is the truth-check. For closed Batches and Production Orders, it shows the gap between planned consumption (per the Tech Pack BOM …
Creating Reports GarmentFlow ships a lot of reports , and you will still want your own — the question your accountant asks every month, the list your buyer wants every Monday. There are three w …
Item Attributes for Fashion A fashion supply chain runs on variants. The same zipper exists in fifteen colors and four lengths. The same button exists in matte, glossy, and antique brass finishes …
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, …
Creating DocTypes A DocType is a kind of record. Creating one gives you a database table, a form, a list view, permissions, a REST endpoint, printing, reports, comments, attachments and a chang …
Design Masters A master in GarmentFlow is the reference data that everything else depends on. Brand. Fit. Fabric. Color. Size chart. The kind of data you enter once and reuse across hundreds of Tech …
TraceIt! Digital Product Passport Every garment has a story: where the fabric came from, what it's made of, who made it, how it should be cared for. Most of that story dies at the shop floor d …
Bundle Builder Some things sell as a set. A shirt and a pant. A three-piece uniform. A gift pack. Bundle Builder takes two or more finished Tech Packs and merges their items into sellable kits — ERPNext Product Bundles — w …
Guided Setup A brand-new GarmentFlow site knows nothing about your factory. Guided Setup is the wizard that fixes that — eight steps that take you from an empty site to one that can plan a real order. Yo …
ERP Setup Configure the ERP foundation — company, master data and finance — on Desk and the App. Most of what follows is created automatically by the install wizard . Your job here is to review and confirm , not rebuild — a …
Design Reports Reports are where masters and Tech Packs stop being data and start being answers. The Design workspace surfaces a row of reports — they're listed under Insights & Reports on the workspace itself — a …
Extending Forms This is the page that solves most requests. Adding a field to a GarmentFlow form, hiding one you never use, renaming one to your factory's vocabulary, changing which columns the list shows — all of it is …
Setting Up the Order Three tabs and one configuration block carry the whole spec: Data , Model , Items & Operations , and Warehouse Configuration . By the time you're done with them, the order has everything it needs f …
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