TailorDesk
Custom tailor shop management software
Measurements, orders, trials and delivery without the diary.
For tailoring businesses and boutiques where every customer has a measurement history, an order moves through cutting, stitching and trial before delivery, and work is allocated to karigars on piece rates. Built around the order's journey rather than a retail checkout.
Screens
What it looks like
4 screens from the working demo — the same data you will see if you open it.
The problem
Why this gets built
A tailoring shop runs on a measurement book and a delivery diary. Lose either and the business stops. Meanwhile nobody can say which karigar is behind, or which order will miss its trial date.
Who it is for
Fit
Tailoring shops and boutiques handling bespoke orders with multiple workers.
Capabilities
What the system does.
Customer measurements
Stored per customer per garment type, so a repeat order does not need a repeat fitting.
Order tracking
Garment, fabric, rate, advance and balance, from booking to delivery.
Trials & delivery
Trial dates and delivery commitments scheduled and visible, with what is due this week up front.
Karigar job cards
Work assigned per worker with piece rates and completion tracked.
Fabric stock
Cloth received, issued against orders and remaining, in metres.
Billing
Advance versus balance with receipts, so nothing is delivered unpaid by accident.
See it running
TailorDesk is a clickable demo — open the modules, browse the tables, see how the screens fit together.
Buying decision
Why off-the-shelf falls short here.
Retail POS software models a sale: item, price, paid, done. A tailoring order is the opposite - it is an open commitment that lasts weeks, changes at trial, and involves several people before it is finished. The moment you try to run it on a POS, the actual state of the order lives on a paper slip pinned to the garment.
Measurements are the other thing generic software has no home for. They are per customer, per garment type, and they change over time. A shop that cannot pull up what it cut for a customer two years ago is asking for measurements again, which is exactly the friction a repeat customer notices.
A custom build holds the measurement profile, the order with its stage and trial dates, and the karigar allocation with its piece rate, so the shop can answer where a garment is and what it has cost without walking to the rail.
Comparison
Packaged product vs a custom build.
The differences that decide it, for this sector specifically.
| Aspect | Packaged product | Custom build |
|---|---|---|
| Customer record | Name and phone | Measurement profiles per garment type, with the history of how they changed |
| Order | A completed sale | An open order with stage, trial date, promised delivery and alteration passes |
| Work allocation | Not modelled | Per-karigar allocation on piece rate, with work in hand visible per person |
| Trials | Outside the system | Scheduled, reminded, and recorded with the adjustments made at each one |
| Alterations | A new sale | A pass against the original order, so the true cost of the garment stays visible |
| Fabric | Sold stock | Customer-supplied and shop-supplied fabric handled separately, with cutting wastage recorded |
Integrations
What it connects to.
A system that cannot reach the tools already in use becomes another island. These are the connections this sector normally needs.
Accounting
Sales and karigar payouts posted to Tally or Zoho Books, with advances tracked against the order.
Messaging
Trial and delivery reminders on WhatsApp, which is what actually gets read.
Payments
UPI and card collection against the order, including part payment at booking.
Label printing
Order tags printed with a code that ties the garment on the rail to the record.
Catalogue
Design and style references attached to the order so the trial conversation has a picture.
How it runs
From first conversation to cutover.
Indicative for a build of this shape. The parallel run is not optional — nothing is retired until the numbers agree.
- 1 week
Discovery
We take your measurement sheet, your karigar rates and a week of live orders.
- 3-5 weeks
Core build
Measurement profiles, order stages and karigar allocation - the parts the counter uses every hour.
- 1-2 weeks
Counter pilot
The shop runs it beside the slips for a full delivery cycle, including trials and one alteration.
- 1 week
Rollout
Old customer measurements imported, reminders switched on, slips retired.
After rollout
What changes day to day.
- A customer's measurements are on screen before they finish asking, including what changed last time.
- Where a garment is in the process is a lookup rather than a search along the rail.
- Karigar payouts come from recorded allocations instead of a weekly reconstruction.
- Alterations stop being invisible, so the garments and styles that generate them can be identified.
Described qualitatively on purpose. We do not publish percentage improvements we cannot attribute to a named client with their agreement.
Questions
Common questions.
Are customer measurements saved for repeat orders?
Yes. Measurements are stored per customer and per garment type, so a returning customer does not need a fresh fitting for the same garment.
Can it track which karigar has which order?
Yes. Work is assigned per worker with piece rates and completion tracked, so a delayed order has a name against it.
Does it handle advance payments and balances?
Yes. Advance and balance are recorded per order with receipts, so nothing is handed over unpaid by accident.