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GarmentFlow v5 reorganizes the platform around the style, then builds a faster commercial flow, a single production hub, smarter scheduling, and quick onboarding on top of it. This page frames each change as a benefit, so you can see what’s in it for you whether you’re already running GarmentFlow or evaluating it. If you read one concept first, make it the style-centric model — it’s the idea the rest of v5 builds on.

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Build a style once, reuse it across every order

In v5, the is the system of record for its , its , and its . What this means for you: you create a style’s documents once. When the same style comes back next season, you reuse it instead of rebuilding it. Each order that runs the style keeps its own independent version, so two orders on the same style can evolve and be approved separately without stepping on each other. Every change is captured as an , so you always know which version a given order is running. This replaces the older order-centric approach, where the same product had to be re-entered for every order and there was no shared product record to reuse.

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Quote, convert, and order on one connected chain

v5 rebuilds the commercial front of the system on a single documents and conversion chain. A becomes a becomes an order — each step carries the line items forward instead of asking you to retype them. What this means for you: quoting is faster and more consistent, the numbers you quoted flow into the documents that follow, and customer-facing PDFs are generated for you with your company’s branding and terms.

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Run production from one hub

v5 brings outsourcing, purchasing, inventory, and quality claims together in a single Production hub:
  • Outsourcing — a single can cover several customer orders and styles at once, each with its own factory price, and can be converted into a signed contract.
  • Purchasing — raise for main materials and trims, with automatic numbering.
  • Inventory — live balances for materials and finished goods, including a size breakdown for garments.
  • Claims — track material and garment quality claims with photos, start to close.
What this means for you: the operational heart of an OEM business is in one place, with material receipts, stock balances, and outsourcing all connected to the orders they belong to.

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Schedule backward from the ship date

v5 schedules production and material targets backward from the customer’s ship date, using your own lead-time offsets, so each milestone has a target date that lands the shipment on time. It also adds a material-arrival check on production start: when materials for a factory order haven’t been received, production start is held back and the shortfall is shown — with an option to override and record a reason when you need to proceed anyway. What this means for you: you see what has to happen by when to hit the ship date, and the system helps prevent starting production before materials are in.

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Onboard in hours, not weeks

v5 adds a guided Data Import tool that bulk-imports your master data — customers, vendors, fabrics, trims, colors, and units — from spreadsheet files. It validates every row before saving, so a file either imports cleanly or tells you exactly which rows to fix, and it never overwrites data you’ve already entered. What this means for you: getting a new workspace ready is a matter of importing your existing lists, not entering everything by hand.