> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.garmentflow.ai/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Glossary > Key GarmentFlow terms in English, 繁體中文, and 简体中文, each with a one-line definition and its main module. 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](/modules/product-cards); the PDF layout is set workspace-wide on [Feature Settings → Product card PDF](/admin/feature-settings#product-card-pdf-fields). ### 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](/admin/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](/modules/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](/admin/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](#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](/modules/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](/modules/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](/modules/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](#style) with its BOM, size specification, images, instruction-page attachments and a proposed [QC checklist](#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](/modules/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](#qc-checklist)) followed by the source tech pack's own pages. The second form of the MO document; the [8-tab Excel workbook](#mo-manufacturing-order) 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](/modules/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](#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](/admin/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](/admin/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](/concepts/finance-ledger). Realized only — open balances are not marked to a current rate. See [Foreign exchange](/modules/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](/admin/user-management#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](/admin/user-management#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](/admin/user-management#maker-checker-approvals). ## 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.