Tailoring & garment shops
Running a tailoring shop in Singapore means juggling half-paid orders, fabric rolls that never quite match the notebook, and customers who walk in expecting their alteration to be ready today. Tallium AI puts billing, deposits, fabric stock, order tracking and your accounts into one app, so a counter bill takes seconds and your books update themselves. Everything is GST-ready for IRAS, with unlimited users on every plan and one flat monthly price in USD.
From $79/month per shop · billed monthly · no free trial
Key takeaways
Most tailoring work is taken as a 50% deposit now and the balance on collection. When that sits in a receipt book or a WhatsApp thread, it is far too easy to hand over a finished suit without collecting the rest, or to argue with a customer over what was already paid. At month end nobody can say how much money is still owed across open orders.
Rolls get cut for one job, remnants go back on the shelf, and a bolt of the customer's chosen shirting turns out to be finished only after the order is taken. Without live stock by roll or metre, you either over-order fabric that ties up cash or promise a cloth you cannot deliver, and both cost you the customer.
Between fittings, alterations, rush jobs and a tailor who is out sick, orders drift past their promised date. Customers turn up for a collection that is not ready, and finished garments sit uncollected on the rail for weeks with your labour and fabric already spent on them.
If your taxable turnover crosses the S$1,000,000 threshold you must register for GST, and from then on every bill, deposit and supplier invoice matters for your GST F5 return. Retyping counter sales into a spreadsheet before each filing period wastes evenings and invites mistakes right where they are most expensive.
Take the order at the counter, record the deposit against it, and Tallium AI keeps the outstanding balance on the invoice until collection. Staff see instantly what is still owed before a garment leaves the shop, and you get a single list of open balances across every customer instead of flipping through a book.
Track cloth by metre, plus buttons, linings and zips, with stock falling as you bill or issue material to a job. Low-stock alerts tell you when a popular shirting or lining needs reordering, and purchase orders to your suppliers flow straight back into stock and into your accounts when they arrive.
Each job carries its measurements notes, promised date and current stage, so anyone at the counter can answer "is it ready?" without walking to the back. Filter for jobs due this week or garments finished but uncollected, and follow up before they turn into dead stock on the rail.
Sales, deposits, expenses and supplier bills post to your accounts as they happen, with GST captured on each line where it applies, so figures for your GST F5 return are ready rather than rebuilt. Snap supplier and rent receipts with your phone and the AI reads and categorises them. Please confirm current rules with IRAS or a local tax professional.
Fast counter billing for alterations, made-to-measure orders and off-the-rack sales, with deposits, part payments, cash, card and PayNow all recorded against the same job.
Send clean quotes for bespoke work and invoices that show the deposit paid and balance due, with your GST registration number on every document once you are registered.
Stock by metre, roll or piece with low-stock alerts, so you know what cloth is genuinely on the shelf before you promise it to a customer.
Double-entry books that build themselves from your sales, deposits and supplier bills, ready for your accountant at year end without a rebuild.
GST applied on the right lines and summarised for your GST F5 return, with records kept in order for IRAS.
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