Garment decoration software, from the reorder to the invoice
Blanks, decoration and carriage on separate lines, artwork approved against the line, POs to your wholesalers raised from the job, and a store your accounts order from themselves.
For the decorator, not the distributor who outsources to you
Decoration businesses carry the machines and the risk. The blanks come from two or three wholesalers, the logo has to be digitised and approved, the run has to be scheduled, and half the work is the same uniform account ordering again.
- Blanks, decoration and carriage price as separate lines with supplier cost
- Purchase orders to blank wholesalers are raised from the job
- Artwork approval is an eForm tied to the quote line
- Company stores let accounts reorder at agreed prices, artwork attached
- Ralawise and PenCarrie are supported supplier integrations
How it runs in Zigaflow
- Enquiry or reorderA new brief or a store order lands as one record with the artwork attached.
- Quote the partsBlanks, decoration, setup and carriage price as separate lines with supplier cost.
- Approve the artworkThe digitised logo goes for approval against the line before anything is bought.
- Order the blanksPurchase orders go to each wholesaler from the job and are acknowledged.
- Decorate, dispatch, invoiceProduction moves on the board, the delivery note goes out, the invoice follows.
More about Zigaflow for Garment Decoration & Workwear
Zigaflow gives every one of those steps a place. Blanks, decoration and carriage are separate quote lines with their own supplier cost, so margin is visible per line rather than per invoice. Purchase orders to your wholesalers are raised from the job and acknowledged by the supplier. Artwork approval is an eForm attached to the line it belongs to.
The reorder is the part that pays. A company store gives an on-account customer a branded ordering portal at their agreed prices, with their approved artwork already attached, and the order lands in Zigaflow as a job rather than as an email somebody has to retype. Six UK workwear suppliers now market a uniform ordering portal as a headline feature, which is a fair signal that it is table stakes rather than a differentiator.
The problems we solve
Reorders arrive as emails with attachments
An account manager retypes "same as last time, twelve more polos" into a quote and hopes the logo file attached to the email is the current one.
The account orders from its own company store at agreed prices with the approved artwork already attached, and the order arrives in Zigaflow as a job that nobody had to key in.
Blanks are ordered from three wholesalers by hand
Orders are keyed into supplier websites one at a time and reconciled back to jobs at month end, by which point a short delivery has already cost you a deadline.
The purchase orders are raised from the job lines for every supplier at once, the supplier acknowledges and adds tracking in Zigaflow, and the PO cost is the job's cost.
Artwork approval stalls production
The digitised logo goes out for approval in an email, the machine sits idle, and nobody can say whose turn it is to reply.
Approval is requested against the line, chased automatically, and the job moves to production when it is given. The approved file stays on the job for the next reorder.
Works with your existing tools
Why businesses choose Zigaflow
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