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Running your business on SnapLedger · Tailor Shop

Hi, I'm Snappy. This course is for people who run a tailor shop — a counter, a cutting table, a few tailors, a shelf of fabric and a rail of ready-made pieces. Before the lessons, let's look at what makes a busy shop hard to run — and what changes when it runs on one system.

8 lessons16 minCaptions: English, Arabic, French and Chinese.

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Lessons

Opening
Why a tailor shop needs one system
3:03
3:03
Lesson 1
The order book, in one place
- Open an order for a walk-in customer in two fields
- Keep his measurement card on the order
- Put the fitting and the collection on the order's timeline
1:47
1:47
Lesson 2
The price and the deposit
- Price the order from the shop's own price list
- Turn the customer's yes into the deposit invoice
- Take the deposit in cash and see it on the order
2:11
2:11
Lesson 3
The fabric: ordered by the owner, received at the shop
- Order what the open orders need, from wherever you are
- Check the delivery in against the order, and keep a customer's own fabric apart at no cost
- Cut for an order and charge the metres to it
2:27
2:27
Lesson 4
Fitting, collection and the balance
- Keep the order's dates in view on its timeline
- Mark the garments ready and move the order to collection
- Invoice the balance from the same quotation
1:34
1:34
Lesson 5
Off the rail — a walk-in buys ready-made
- Keep ready-made pieces in the shop's library, priced
- Sell one to a walk-in on an invoice that takes it off the shelf
- Get the cash into the books
1:21
1:21
Lesson 6
The tailors' month
- Run the work room's payroll for the month
- Add each tailor's piece work
- Get the payslips and the WPS file in one run
1:06
1:06
Lesson 7
The month closed — what the order made
- See a customer's transfer find its invoice
- Count the shelf, sign the count off and lock last month
- Read the shop's results, and what one order made
2:26
2:26

Filmed with UAE rules: VAT, Corporate Tax and WPS.