From Cutting Table to Delivery

The hardest part of a busy workshop isn't any single garment, it's holding all of them in your head at once. This one's cut and waiting for a fitting, that one's sewn and needs a final press, another hasn't started because the fabric only arrived yesterday. Lose track of where even one order sits and you get the two worst outcomes in this trade: a missed deadline, or a finished garment you forgot to collect the balance on. thimblely's Orders board exists to hold that picture for you.

Every garment as its own card

In thimblely, each order is a single place that gathers everything about that garment: which client it's for, their relevant measurements, the design and any notes, the fabric it needs, the deposit paid and balance due, and its delivery date. Instead of that information living in five apps and one notebook, it lives on one card you can open in a second. When a client messages to ask about their piece, you're not assembling the answer from fragments, you're reading it off one screen.

Watch work move through stages

Orders don't just sit; they move, from cut, to in progress, to ready, to delivered. Seeing your whole workshop as garments at different stages turns a vague sense of "I'm busy" into a clear picture of exactly how busy, and where the pressure is. Three orders stuck at "ready" but not delivered? That's likely money waiting to be collected. A pile at "not started" with close deadlines? That's your week, telling you where to point first.

Nothing finishes until it's actually finished

Because payment lives on the same order card as the work, a garment isn't quietly done the moment it's sewn, it's done when it's delivered and paid. That link is what stops the most common silent leak in a maker's business: handing over beautiful work and forgetting the balance in the warmth of the moment. The order tells you what's still owed before it lets you call it closed.

One place for the whole team

When more than one person touches an order, the card becomes shared ground. The person cutting sees the same measurements and notes as the person sewing and the person handling delivery, no relayed instructions, no detail lost in translation. Instead of the order living in your head and being parcelled out by memory, it lives on the card where everyone working on it can see exactly where it stands and what it needs next.

The whole book, at a glance

Step back from the individual cards and the Orders board becomes something more useful still: a live view of your entire order book. How much work is in progress, what's due this week, what's owed across everything. That's the view that lets you decide whether you can take a new rush job, or whether Friday is already full. Your workshop, on one screen, always current, that's what Orders inthimblelyis built to give you.