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 …
API & Integrations Everything in GarmentFlow is reachable over HTTP. The Desk, the floor apps and the dashboards all talk to the same endpoints you can call — there is no private interface t …
Customer Portal Once someone is your customer, the questions change. Not what do you make but where is my order, what did the sample look like, can I have the
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 ei …
IQ Templates An IQ Template is a named bundle of parameters at a defined quality rank. "Q1 Premium Knits." "Q3 Standard Wovens." "Q5 Basic Reorders." Each one represents a level of inspection rigor, …
Publishing a Product A Published
QC Parameters A QC Parameter is a named thing your inspectors check. "Chest measurement." "Color match to approved sample." "Zipper functionality." Each one is a master record carrying the detai …
Colors and the Color Library Color in GarmentFlow lives on the Variant doctype. A Variant is a specific colorway, wash, or design — for example a solid like Pantone® 19-1664 TPX, a wash like "Indig …
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 Tab The Design tab is the designer's space. It's where the look of the garment gets defined, the pattern team gets briefed, samples are requested and tracked, and the fabric is picked. By the …
Samples A Sample is the prototype you make from a
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 …
Fabrics and Composition The fabric library is one of the most consequential masters in GarmentFlow. Every
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 …
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
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
Design App The Design App is the touch-friendly interface for the design and sample room — the one the team actually uses on a phone or tablet while they're at the cutting table, the fitting mirror …
Fashion flats and Canvas Explorer A fashion flat is a
Logistics Tab The Logistics tab is where the
Measurements and Feedback A sample's job is to surface what's different between the spec and reality. The Results tab on the Sample is where you record both — measurements at every point, and …
Washcare Symbols A Washcare Symbol is one of the standardized care icons that print on the label sewn into every garment — machine wash, dry clean only, tumble dry low, do not bleach. The mas …
Pattern Modification Requests A Pattern Modification Request (PMR) is the formal way to change a Pattern that's in use. Think of it like a pull request for your pattern library: someone says …
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 …
Catalog Settings One settings page configures the whole storefront. Get it right once and you rarely come back. Getting there Awesome bar: Cmd/Ctrl + K → type catalog settings . Click path: D …
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 …
Subcontracting Most garment factories send some work out — wash, embroidery, print, sometimes whole stitching runs. GarmentFlow treats that as buying labour , not as ERPNext's goods-custody subcontr …
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 …
Quality Setup Before the team inspects anything, four masters need to be configured. Get them right and the rest of the section runs itself. Get them sloppy and your inspections produce data t …
Size Charts and Points of Measurement Two masters work together to define how your garments are sized: the Size Chart (the scale — XS, S, M, L, XL) and the Point of Measurement master (the named po …
Material Transfer and Stock Entries A Material Request says "move these materials from here to there." A Stock Entry is what actually does it. This page covers the two kinds of Stock Entry th …
The Production Workspace If you run the factory floor, this is your home. Open Desk → GarmentFlow → Production and the entire pipeline from a released order to a finished carton is one click away. The Production …
Garment Manufacturing Settings Garment Manufacturing Settings is a single-doc that holds the production-side defaults the rest of GarmentFlow reads from. It's also referenced from Getting Sta …
From RFQ to Purchase Order The actual act of buying. Two ERPNext documents drive it: Request for Quotation and Purchase Order . RFQ is optional; PO is the commitment. Request for Quotation An RFQ is how you …
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 …
Pattern Assembly and Imports Most of what a designer does on a Pattern lives in the measurements and the history. But two adjacent topics are worth understanding once: how a Pattern describes …
Marker Order A Marker Order is the declaration of the marker the cutting room will use: which pattern, which sizes in what mix, on fabric of a given width, with given shrinkage allowances, pr …
Materials and Execution Three sections on the Production Batch carry what the floor needs to actually run the batch: Materials , Work Instructions , and Logistics . Plus a fourth, Labels , th …
Operation Ledger The Operation Ledger is the event-level record of work moving through the factory. Every Start, every Transfer, every Handoff, every Scrap — each one is an entry. Where Batch Ca …
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