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Key terms used across GarmentFlow, each with its Traditional and Simplified Chinese equivalents, a one-sentence definition, and the module where you’ll mostly use it.

Core records

Style

款式 (繁體中文) · 款式 (简体中文) · Module: Styles The reusable product record that owns its BOM, cost sheet, and manufacturing orders, and is reused across many orders.

Order

訂單 (繁體中文) · 订单 (简体中文) · Module: Orders A customer’s commitment to buy specific styles, colorways, and quantities to ship by a given date.

MO (manufacturing order)

製造單 (繁體中文) · 制造单 (简体中文) · Module: Styles / Production The production document issued for a specific order’s version of a style; its content is frozen when it is issued.

Colorway

配色 (繁體中文) · 配色 (简体中文) · Module: Styles / Orders A specific color or color combination that a style is produced in.

Customer

客戶品牌 (繁體中文) · 客户品牌 (简体中文) · Module: Styles / Orders The brand or buyer a style is developed for; the name captured on a style stays visible on the style even if the customer record is later removed.

Reference data

Master catalog

主檔 (繁體中文) · 主档 (简体中文) · Module: Admin & configuration A shared reference list — fabrics, accessories, colors, body parts, units, or one of the two category catalogs — that styles, BOMs, cost sheets, and purchase orders read from so the same record flows through every downstream document.

Fabric master

布料主檔 (繁體中文) · 面料主档 (简体中文) · Module: Admin & configuration / Styles The canonical record for one fabric — its item number, name, vendor, category, unit, and lead time — that a BOM fabric line picks from and that a fabric purchase order buys against.

Accessory master

輔料主檔 (繁體中文) · 辅料主档 (简体中文) · Module: Admin & configuration / Styles The canonical record for one trim or accessory — its item number, name, vendor, category, unit, and lead time — that a BOM accessory line picks from and that a trim purchase order buys against.

Vendor

廠商 (繁體中文) · 厂商 (简体中文) · Module: Admin & configuration The canonical record for one outside party your workspace places orders with — a garment factory, a fabric mill, or an accessory supplier — together with the currency it invoices in, its payment terms, and its contact. Factory orders, purchase orders, subcontracts, and fabric and accessory masters all pick a vendor from this directory.

Vendor type

廠商類別 (繁體中文) · 厂商类别 (简体中文) · Module: Admin & configuration One of Garment Factory, Fabric Mill, or Accessory Supplier — the categorization that pins where a vendor is picked downstream (factory orders, fabric purchase orders and fabric masters, or trim purchase orders and accessory masters). Set when the vendor is created and not editable afterwards.

Style documents

BOM (bill of materials)

物料表 (繁體中文) · 物料表 (简体中文) · Module: Styles The list of fabrics and trims a style is made from.

Cost sheet

成本表 (繁體中文) · 成本表 (简体中文) · Module: Styles The costing breakdown for a style, used for quoting and margin analysis.

Artifact version

文件版本 (繁體中文) · 文件版本 (简体中文) · Module: Styles A saved, numbered revision of a style document such as a BOM or cost sheet.

Sample

樣品 (繁體中文) · 样品 (简体中文) · Module: Samples & fitting A physical prototype of a style, developed and validated through fitting before bulk production.

Product card

款式卡 (繁體中文) · 款式卡 (简体中文) · Module: Samples & fitting The printed four-up A4 sample tag that identifies a physical sample as it travels — one card per (order × style × sample type), carrying the style’s identity, the sample type, size, colour, and the materials the prototype is in. Lives on Product Cards; the PDF layout is set workspace-wide on Feature Settings → Product card PDF.

Fitting

試身 (繁體中文) · 试身 (简体中文) · Module: Samples & fitting The per-style validation record that takes a style from first prototype to a bulk-approved sample across seven fixed stages.

POM (point of measurement)

量測點 (繁體中文) · 量测点 (简体中文) · Module: Admin & configuration / Samples & fitting A named measurement point on a garment — Chest, Sleeve length, Sweep, and the like — together with the tolerance the team works to. Curated once on the POM Library so every per-style grading table starts from the same vocabulary.

Grading table

尺寸放碼表 (繁體中文) · 尺寸放码表 (简体中文) · Module: Grading The per-order-style POM-by-size reference grid the team grades a sample to — points of measurement down the rows, sizes across the columns, plus a tolerance column. Built from the workspace’s POM Library catalog plus any one-off points added on the grid itself. Versioned per order; the catalog of points lives on the POM Library.

Tolerance

容差 (繁體中文) · 容差 (简体中文) · Module: Samples & fitting / Admin & configuration The ± the team accepts on a measurement, recorded in inch fractions on each point of measurement and carried with the point onto every grading table that picks it.

Commercial documents

Quotation

報價單 (繁體中文) · 报价单 (简体中文) · Module: Quotations A price offer sent to a customer before an order is placed.

PI (proforma invoice)

形式發票 (繁體中文) · 形式发票 (简体中文) · Module: Quotations / Finance A preliminary invoice confirming price, quantity, and terms before shipment.

Documents and conversion chain

文件與轉換鏈 (繁體中文) · 文件与转换链 (简体中文) · Module: Cross-cutting The connected flow in which a quotation converts to a proforma invoice and then to an order, carrying line items forward at each step.

Production

Factory order

委外單 (繁體中文) · 委外单 (简体中文) · Module: Production The outsourcing document (委外) covering work sent to a factory; one factory order can span several orders and styles. Also referenced in the platform under the secondary name subcontract (外包 / 委外) — the sidebar’s Subcontracts entry opens the same cross-order list of factory orders.

Subcontract

外包單 (繁體中文) · 外包单 (简体中文) · Module: Production The platform’s secondary name for the factory order — the same record under a different label, used on the sidebar’s Subcontracts entry and on the per-vendor subcontract history. The canonical coverage lives on Production; the term in the docs is factory order.

Trim submission

輔料樣品送樣 (繁體中文) · 辅料样品送样 (简体中文) · Module: Samples & fitting / Production The workspace’s record of one trim — a button, zipper, label, or other accessory — being sent out for sign-off and the outcome that came back. One submission per trim, colour, and approval intent, carrying the vendor it was sent to, the styles it covers (including any related styles the same round applies to), the approval-intent ticks, the outcome, the photos, and the printable trim card. Lives on Trim Submissions; the submission is the audit trail for trim approval and does not gate the trim purchase order.

PO (purchase order)

採購單 (繁體中文) · 采购单 (简体中文) · Module: Production A purchase order (採購) sent to a supplier for fabric or trims.

Receipt

收料 (繁體中文) · 收料 (简体中文) · Module: Production A ledger entry that adds to the recorded balance against a purchase-order line.

Inventory

庫存 (繁體中文) · 库存 (简体中文) · Module: Production The on-hand stock balance, calculated from receipts and issues.

Tech pack

技術包 (繁體中文) · 技术包 (简体中文) · Module: Tech Packs A brand’s authored specification for one garment — the file the OEM has historically re-keyed by hand into a working style. GarmentFlow’s Tech Packs module is the receiving side: a PDF, Illustrator (.ai), or Techpacker .tpv becomes a working style with its BOM, size specification, images, instruction-page attachments and a proposed QC checklist after a reviewer confirms it on a review screen beside the pack’s own pages.

Work order

製造單 (繁體中文) · 制造单 (简体中文) · Module: Tech Packs / Styles The single A4 PDF a factory works to for a specific order’s run of a tech-pack-originated style — the OEM’s cover (order header, per-colorway × per-size quantity matrix, confirmed QC checklist) followed by the source tech pack’s own pages. The second form of the MO document; the 8-tab Excel workbook is the first, and both read the same confirmed data. Generated fresh from current data each time.

QC checklist

QC 檢查清單 (繁體中文) · QC 检查清单 (简体中文) · Module: Styles / Tech Packs The list of checks a factory works to when inspecting the garment, grouped by category (measurements, construction, labels, packaging, folding, materials). Proposed from a tech pack’s tolerance table and its classified instruction pages, confirmed by the reviewer at ingestion, and written read-only onto the style’s QC tab. Rendered into the factory work order so the checklist reaches the factory in the document the factory already works from.

PMS document

生產規格書 (繁體中文) · 生产规格书 (简体中文) · Module: Production / Styles The factory-facing multi-tab production-meeting-spec workbook generated for a style’s manufacturing order — the eight-tab Excel the factory actually opens, filled from one of the workspace’s PMS templates and frozen against the MO’s bound BOM, grading, sample-measurement, and brand-tab library attachments at issue.

PMS template

生產規格書範本 (繁體中文) · 生产规格书模板 (简体中文) · Module: Admin & configuration A reusable multi-tab factory Excel workbook in the workspace’s PMS Templates library, with a per-sheet mapping that tells the platform which sheet fills which target slot (Grading, Sample review, Packing, Production notes, or Style detail). Picked on the Style MO create wizard to generate the PMS document.

Needle inspection (檢針)

檢針 (繁體中文) · 检针 (简体中文) · Module: Production / QC The metal-detection step that checks finished garments for stray needles before packing.

Shipping

Shipment

出貨 (繁體中文) · 出货 (简体中文) · Module: Shipments A delivery of finished goods to the customer, planned and tracked in batches.

Commercial shipment

商業出貨 (繁體中文) · 商业发货 (简体中文) · Module: Shipments The customer-facing commercial document for a batch of an order’s goods, carrying the carrier, the bill of lading or air waybill, the vessel or flight, the tracking number, and the link to the commercial invoice. A separate record from the per-destination outbound shipments the factory order seeded.

Shipping destination (出貨地)

出貨地 (繁體中文) · 出货地 (简体中文) · Module: Shipments The customer-specified destination for a shipment, which depends on the order’s trade term (a port for FOB/CIF, a full address for DDP).

Finance

AR (accounts receivable)

應收帳款 (繁體中文) · 应收账款 (简体中文) · Module: Finance Money owed to you by customers.

AP (accounts payable)

應付帳款 (繁體中文) · 应付账款 (简体中文) · Module: Finance Money you owe to suppliers and factories.

FX rate

匯率 (繁體中文) · 汇率 (简体中文) · Module: Admin & configuration / Finance The exchange rate that converts a foreign currency to the workspace’s base currency. Maintained on the FX Rates page; every multi-currency document captures the current rate at its own create time and keeps that figure for life, so updating the rate afterwards does not change any document already created.

Realized foreign-exchange gain or loss

已實現匯兌損益 (繁體中文) · 已实现汇兑损益 (简体中文) · Module: Finance The difference between the exchange rate in effect when a foreign-currency invoice was recorded on the ledger and the rate in effect when the receipt or vendor payment that settles it is recorded — translated into the workspace’s base currency, and posted as its own entry on the foreign-exchange side of the finance ledger. Realized only — open balances are not marked to a current rate. See Foreign exchange.

Maker

經辦 (繁體中文) · 经办 (简体中文) · Module: Finance The person who prepares and submits a vendor payment or a debit or credit note for approval — typically a finance user. The maker cannot approve their own submission. See Maker-checker approvals.

Checker

覆核 (繁體中文) · 复核 (简体中文) · Module: Finance The person who approves or rejects a vendor payment or a debit or credit note submitted by a maker — a finance checker or an administrator. The checker can never approve their own submission. See Maker-checker approvals.

Maker-checker

經辦 / 覆核 (繁體中文) · 经办 / 复核 (简体中文) · Module: Finance The dual-control model GarmentFlow enforces on vendor payments and on debit and credit notes: one person prepares and submits the document, a second person approves it, and the same person can never play both parts on the same document. Defined on User management.

Platform

Readiness engine

就緒引擎 (繁體中文) · 就绪引擎 (简体中文) · Module: Cross-cutting The capability that tracks an order’s production readiness and surfaces risks early.

V3 consolidation

V3 整合 (繁體中文) · V3 整合 (简体中文) · Module: Cross-cutting The work in v5 that unifies the platform’s earlier shipment records into a single, consistent shipment model, so finished-goods movements and customer shipping documents stay in sync.