Industry — Textile & Fabric Retail
Fabric retail is a metre-by-metre business. A customer asks for 3.5 metres of a satin in two colours, you cut, you bargain a little, you write it in a book — and by month end nobody is sure how much of that roll is left or what the shop actually earned. Tallium AI gives Malaysian textile and fabric shops one app for fast counter billing, live roll-level stock and SST-ready accounts, so the cutting table and the books finally agree.
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Key takeaways
Stock arrives as rolls or than, but it leaves the shop in 1.75m and 4.5m cuts. Most shops track the roll going in and never track the metres going out, so the shelf and the stock book drift apart within weeks. By the time you notice, you have already reordered a design you still have 40 metres of and run out of the plain cotton everyone actually wants.
The same base fabric comes in 22 colours, three widths and two GSM weights. Naming it on paper as "cotton blue" is fine until a tailor asks for the exact shade she bought in March. Without a proper variant structure you cannot answer that, cannot reorder correctly, and staff waste ten minutes on the floor for every sale hunting for a matching bolt.
You give a discount on a bulk cut for a wedding order, take a deposit, add RM8 for edge finishing, and settle the balance a week later. Handwritten bills capture none of this cleanly, so you genuinely do not know whether that big Raya order made money or barely broke even after the discount you gave at the counter.
If your shop crosses the RM500,000 registration threshold you have real SST obligations and an SST-02 return to file, and Malaysia's MyInvois e-invoicing rollout means buyers increasingly want a proper structured invoice, not a receipt book slip. Reconstructing months of counter sales from cash-book pages before a filing deadline is stressful and error-prone.
Set each fabric with its purchase unit (roll or than) and its selling unit (metre or yard) and let Tallium AI do the conversion at the counter. Staff scan or search the design, key in 3.5, and stock drops by exactly 3.5 metres against the right roll. Remnant lengths stay visible so you can clear short pieces instead of discovering them at stocktake.
One parent product, unlimited variants — colour, width, weight, design code — each with its own barcode, cost and live quantity. Search by design name or code and see every shade with the metres remaining. Low-stock alerts fire per variant, so you reorder the navy that keeps selling instead of the whole colour range.
Apply a line or bill-level discount, take a partial deposit against a wedding or bulk order, and record the balance when the customer collects. Every sale carries its landed cost, so the reports show real gross margin by fabric, by category and by staff member — you can see which discounts you can afford and which are quietly eating the shop.
Every counter sale posts straight into the accounting ledger with the correct tax treatment applied, so your sales, purchases and expenses are already organised when it is time to prepare an SST-02 return under your SST registration number. Snap supplier invoices with the AI receipt scanner and they categorise themselves. Registration thresholds and rates change — confirm current rules with RMCD or a local tax professional before you file.
Fast counter billing built for cut-length selling — metres or yards, decimal quantities, split payments, cash, card, DuitNow QR and e-wallets, plus hold-and-recall when a customer wanders back to the shelves.
Roll and metre-level stock with unlimited colour, width and GSM variants, barcodes, remnant tracking, reorder alerts and a phone-based stock count so you can check a shelf without closing the shop.
Sales, purchases, supplier bills, expenses and profit reports post automatically from the till, so the books are current every night instead of being rebuilt from a cash book each quarter.
Apply the right tax treatment per item, keep a clean audit trail of taxable sales and purchases, and pull the summaries you need when preparing an SST-02 return.
See best and worst moving designs, dead stock by metres and value, daily takings by staff, and AI-written notes that flag what changed this week and why.
Build your plan in a minute — pay only for the parts of your business you run. From $79/month per shop.
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