Alteration Software for Tailors & Clothing Shops
HisabLekha helps tailors, boutiques, and clothing shops track alteration jobs, versioned customer measurements, promised dates, tailor assignment, status worklists, printable slips, optional service charges, and ready-for-WhatsApp customer updates.
Read the clothing alteration workflow guideWhat does HisabLekha handle for this shop type?
Clothing alterations sit between the sale and the handover. HisabLekha gives the shop a documented alteration workflow for the garment and work description, promised date, customer context, tailor assignment, current measurement profile, status worklist, printable slip, and optional alteration charge. It is an alteration workflow, not a claim of full custom-tailoring production management.
Create an alteration job from the worklist, a customer record, or a sale line that needs work; record the garment, work description, promised date, and notes.
Attach the customer's current measurement profile to the job. Saving a new profile keeps previous versions, so an older measurement is not overwritten.
Assign an active shop employee, name an outside tailor, or leave the job unassigned while the work is pending.
Move work through pending, in progress, ready, delivered, and cancelled statuses, with overdue and due-today worklist signals for open jobs.
Print an alteration slip with the garment, work, promised date, tailor, charge, and filled measurements for the item leaving the counter.
When work is ready, offer the configured WhatsApp message. If the owner sets up the alteration charge item, the agreed amount can be recorded as a separate service line on the bill.
How do fashion shop inventory models differ?
The sellable unit changes by shop type. This table shows which product attributes and workflow matter for each category.
| Shop type | Inventory model | Relevant workflow |
|---|---|---|
| Alteration worklist | Job + promised date + status | Pending, in-progress, ready, delivered, and cancelled work |
| Customer measurements | Versioned profile + unit + notes | Attach current values, review history, and print the sheet |
| Counter billing | Eligible fixed-price sale line + job intent | Create the job after sale completion and add an optional service charge |
| Handover | Ready job + slip + customer phone | Print the slip and offer a configured WhatsApp-ready message |
When should a retailer verify the fit first?
- The current v1 alteration jobs are online-only; the cached worklist is read-only offline and writes wait for reconnect.
- Customer measurements attach to saved customer records. A walk-in job cannot carry a measurement profile until the customer is saved.
- Combined multi-shop bills cannot carry an alteration; use a single-shop bill for the alteration charge and job link.
- This page does not claim full custom-tailoring production planning, cutting-room workflows, trial scheduling, or tailor payroll and karigar-wage accounting.
Frequently asked questions about alteration software for tailors & clothing shops
What does alteration management software track?
HisabLekha can track the customer or walk-in name, garment, work description, promised date, notes, tailor assignment, status, charge, and the bill or sale line when the job is linked to a completed sale.
Can I attach customer measurements to an alteration job?
Yes, a saved customer's current measurement profile can be attached to the job. Measurement saves keep the previous versions, and the history and printable sheet make changes easier to review. A walk-in must first be saved as a customer before measurements can be attached.
Can staff create an alteration while billing a garment?
Yes. On an eligible fixed-price garment line, staff can record the work, promised date, tailor, and optional charge intent during billing. The alteration job is created when the sale is completed; a combined multi-shop bill cannot carry an alteration job.
Can a tailor shop assign work and print a slip?
Yes. A job can be assigned to an active shop employee or named outside tailor, moved through its worklist statuses, and printed as an alteration slip with the work, promised date, charge, and filled measurements.
Can the shop tell a customer when the alteration is ready?
When a job reaches ready, HisabLekha offers the configured WhatsApp message from the shop's number. The counter decides whether to open or send the message; it is not an automatic customer notification promise.
Does the alteration worklist work offline?
The current v1 alteration jobs are online-only. A cached list may remain readable while offline, but writes are disabled until the shop reconnects. Verify the actual deployment before relying on an outage workflow.
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