The GarmentFlow dashboard: the AI summary across the top, the navigation sidebar down the left, and the day's headline tiles below.
The shape of the documentation
The sidebar on the left is the spine of the docs. It has six sections, in this order:- Getting started — what you’re reading now: this orientation page, a summary of what changed in v5, and an end-to-end walkthrough of a first order.
- Concepts — the mental models the rest of the docs assume: the style-centric model, style vs. order vs. MO, the order lifecycle, purchasing, receipts, and inventory, BOM, cost sheet, and artifact versions, the readiness engine and AI, and documents and the conversion chain.
- Modules — the day-to-day reference for each business area: Style, Tech Packs, BOM, Cost sheet, Samples and fitting, Grading, Product cards, Trim submissions, Quotation, Order, Production, Shipments, and Finance — one collapsible group that gathers the Finance module’s tabs (Receivables, Payables, Invoices, Debit and credit notes, Statement of account, Foreign exchange, and Finance reports) the way the product does.
- Workflows — the how-to pages that run from start to outcome: Import a tech pack, Develop a style, Build the BOM, Build the cost sheet, Create a quotation, Create an order, Build a manufacturing order, and Generate the factory work order.
- Admin & configuration — workspace setup, master-data import, user management, the Feature settings panel, Workspace settings (your company profile, bank accounts, branding, and AI defaults), the Audit log, and Your account for your own profile, password, and sessions.
- Reference — the glossary and the release notes.
The shape of the product
The product itself has four areas the team works in. Styles sit at the center — the reusable product records every order draws from, with the BOM, cost sheet, samples, fittings, grading, product cards, and trim submissions all hanging off the style. Quotations, Orders, and Finance are the commercial leg: a quotation becomes a proforma invoice becomes an order, the order carries the customer commitment, and Finance is one hub with the tabs the team works in — Receivables, Payables, Receipts, Offset / notes, Invoices, and Reports — backed by the same finance ledger every screen reads from. Production is one hub with four tabs — Subcontracting, Purchasing, Inventory, and Claims — anchored on the factory order that commercialises an order’s bulk run. Shipments carries the outbound side, in two records that work together: the per-leg outbound record on the order, and the customer-facing commercial shipment for the batch. The four areas connect: orders consume styles, production runs against orders, shipments are cut against orders, and the finished-goods record draws down when the outbound leg is marked shipped. The order lifecycle covers how the pieces interlock end to end.The style-centric model in one paragraph
Every later page assumes one idea: the style is the center, not the order. A style owns its BOM, its cost sheet, its sample history, and its manufacturing-ready artifacts; orders consume styles; manufacturing orders produce styles; and a style’s documents are versioned so the same style can sell to many customers across many seasons without losing its identity. Read the style-centric model once, and the rest of the docs will read more clearly.Finding things in the docs
The sidebar is the spine; the search box at the top of every page finds any term in any section; Related pages at the foot of every page suggests two to five next steps the reader is likely to want; and the first time a term appears on a page, hovering it shows a one-line definition and links to the glossary.Switching language
GarmentFlow documentation ships in three languages: English (canonical), 繁體中文 (Taiwan), and 简体中文 (Mainland). Use the language selector at the top right of any page to switch. The three trees mirror each other file-for-file, with locally-correct terminology rather than literal calques — so azh-Hant reader sees the
Taiwan industry term, a zh-Hans reader the Mainland term.
Where to go next
Your first order
The end-to-end walkthrough — one jacket order, from product record to paid shipment.
What changed in v5
The platform-shift summary — what v5 changed and what it means for how you work.
The style-centric model
The one idea that explains everything else.