Billing software built for South African tailoring and garment shops

Most tailoring work is part-paid up front and settled on collection. When the deposit is written in a book and the balance is remembered by whoever took the order, money slips through — a garment goes out unpaid, or a customer is charged twice for the same suit. At month end you genuinely cannot say how much is still owed to you.

You buy fabric by the metre, cut it across several jobs, and the offcuts, linings, zips and buttons never get counted. Without a running record you re-order material you already have on the shelf, or start a job on Friday and discover mid-cut that you are two metres short of the same dye lot.

A matric dance rush or a wedding party of eight means dozens of garments at different stages — cut, stitched, first fitting, ready. When that lives on paper slips pinned above the machines, one misplaced card turns into an angry customer and a garment redone at your cost.

Cash takings, card settlements, fabric invoices from suppliers and till slips for thread and needles all pile up until your VAT201 is due or your accountant asks for the file. Reconstructing months of a tailoring shop's small transactions from a shoebox costs you evenings you should be spending cutting.

Take an order at the counter, record the deposit, and Tallium AI tracks the outstanding balance against that customer until collection. Staff see the amount due the moment they pull up the job, so nothing goes out the door unpaid and repeat customers get a clean history of what they have paid you.

Hold fabric, linings, zips, buttons and thread as stock items with your own units. Issuing material to a job or selling ready-made off the rail draws stock down automatically, and low-stock alerts warn you before a popular suiting or dye lot runs out mid-season.

Each order holds the customer's measurements, garment details, fitting dates and promised collection date, and moves through your stages as the work progresses. Your front desk can answer "is it ready?" without walking to the workroom, and you can see at a glance what is due this week.

Counter sales, deposits, balances and supplier bills post straight to your accounts as they happen, and AI receipt scanning turns a photo of a fabric invoice or a hardware slip into a categorised expense. Your VAT position and figures for the VAT201 are ready when SARS eFiling is due — confirm current rules with SARS or a local tax professional.