Fashion Master can completely manage all aspects of your apparel business. Here is a list of the many features and tools available that will save you time and money.

Fashion Master includes a comprehensive set of ready-made reports and a unique method of producing them that eliminates the need for custom-designed reports. All reports are generated through dialog boxes that allow you to tailor the report exactly the way you want it. Any report can be exported and e-mailed as a PDF document. There are hundreds of reports available. Here is a partial list:

• Call sheets: very customizable with optional purchase summaries
• Stock commissions
• Ranking reports for styles and customers, both rep. and stock, based on orders or invoices
• Styles ordered to date
• Total bookings by manufacturer (based on items booked or items available)
• Customer bookings (based on items booked or items available)
• Customer billings (based on invoices)
• Price lists
• Order dates
• Costings
• Stock not shipped
• Shipments not invoiced
• Shipping
• Damaged returns
• Re-orders by date
• Credits
• Invoice payments
• Factor shipping report for invoices
• Factor shipping report for credits
• Factor credit submission
• Tax reports
• Accounts receivable
• Customer statements
• Unavailable styles (back-orders)

• Allows you to set up an unlimited number of companies, each of which can be an importer, a rep, or both. All importer companies share a common inventory, so one business operating under several company names can easily manage their common stock.
• Each company can establish its own default conditions for orders, invoices and taxes for multiple currencies, including:
• Abbreviations for the tax types;
• Provinces or states that use a blended versus separate federal and provincial/state taxes;
• Last Order, Invoice and Return Authorization numbers used (changeable at any time);
• Type of Rep. Order detail to automatically use (there are three types);
• Choice of fields and messages to display on Invoices.

• Unlimited number supported. A manufacturer can also be an alias, such as your own label, even though you don’t actually produce the goods.
• Each may have either a Rep. or Stock (your imported goods) status.
• You may selectively allow orders to a Stock manufacturer to be automatically rolled up from your customers’ orders.
• You can enter a default trade discount, which will be applied to your costings criteria.
• Automatically calculate or recalculate suggested retail prices.
• Add an unlimited number of divisions/groups for any manufacturer.

• Complete management of all customer information.
• Create custom mailing lists that can be saved, edited and merged, using any naming convention you wish.
• Export any set of customers to third-party software.
• View complete purchase history for each customer from the customer screen.
• Store separate billing and shipping addresses.
• Indicate if a customer expects a volume discount based on the suggested retail price, which will apply, by default, to all orders for that customer.
• Handles factor agency info, including complete factor history, terms, credit limits and credit information (both yours and the factoring agency’s).
• Includes all relevant data: zone, territory, phone numbers, fax, e-mail, contacts, other locations and comments.
• Indicate the manufacturers each customer buys from and establish default discounts, sales people and commissions for all orders from the customer for that manufacturer’s goods.
• Set up default commissions for each customer buying Rep. merchandise.
• Store and reference the Rep. Manufacturer’s ID for each customer.
• Create printable order summaries and call sheets based on any grouping of customers.

Two views of the Styles information are available, depending on whether the Manufacturer that created the style is marked as Rep. or Stock. Rep. styles do not require costing by you, since the Manufacturer has already done that. However, if the style belongs to a Stock Manufacturer, the Costings section becomes visible, so you can calculate your costs and view your markup and profit margin, as well as miscellaneous items such as duty, trade discount, etc. Costings can be stored for two currencies, so you can set wholesale and suggested retail prices in both currencies.

• Styles belong to manufacturers, and optionally, to divisions.
• A style can have a separate sold-as manufacturer and an actual manufacturer.
• Each style has a number, description, season, size-range (12 possible sizes in each range), a wholesale price and a suggested retail price (SRP).
• Each style can have unlimited colors.
• Ability to indicate unavailabilities for each style, color and size and when the item becomes unavailable. This information is automatically carried forward to the orders.
• Optionally, a style can list fabric content and delivery dates.
• Combined sales figures, across all your companies, are available from the style screen for each style, showing amounts booked, repeated, invoiced and credited.
• A simple costings calculator is available the style screen.
• The Price Generator allows you to enter either a profit margin or a markup to apply to your landed cost to arrive at the wholesale price and to enter a separate markup or profit margin to apply to the wholesale price to arrive at the suggested retail price. You can round the wholesale price to the nearest penny, dime or dollar, and the SRP can be rounded to any dollar value.
• Ability to globally update multiple styles.
• Profit margin and markup are always visible for each style.
• Print garment labels (swing tickets and hang tags).
• Easy to use and understand.
• Images of styles may be included.

Fashion Master completely manages your inventory. You simply indicate the number of items received on the orders to your suppliers and Fashion Master handles the rest, automatically. Items shipped to customers are removed from the inventory. Items returned by customers are added to the inventory, unless they are damaged. Here are the highlights of the inventory control system.

• View and/or print the inventory by style & color combination. For each size you see the...
• Stock-on-Hand: the total received minus the total shipped.
• Immediate Open-to-Sell: the Stock-on-Hand minus the totals ordered but not shipped to your customers. This is your uncommitted inventory.
• Open-to-Sell: the Immediate Open-to-Sell plus the totals ordered but not shipped from your supplier. This is what will be available when you receive all the goods.
• The inventory for an item can be viewed or printed directly from an order.
• You can use the Allocate Inventory tool to specify styles and colors to allocate to your customers orders. The allocation, invoice creation, packing slip creation and printing is all done automatically, based on the criteria you enter. Only available stock is allocated.
• An Allocation History is created each time you use the above tool, showing you the criteria you used and the results of the allocation. The history may be viewed or printed.
• You can zero the inventory at any time for: all items; a single item, all items from a Manufacturer; all items from a Season; all items from a Manufacturer & Season combination.
• Produce a Bank Report of your inventory with one click.

These are the orders your customers give you for the manufacturers you rep. Three types of order details available:

• Short - shows total pieces and total value for goods ordered and shipped
• Long - shows style #, description, quantities ordered/shipped/returned, discount, commission, unit-price and total pieces and value, including unavailable totals
• Complete - same as long, with the addition of colors and quantities by size.

An order may use any of the three types of details. After customer and manufacturer are entered, all their details are automatically populated on the order form, including commissions, discounts, etc. These values can be changed, if required.

• Orders always show totals, including projected and actual commissions based on quantities ordered and shipped.
• Indicate if an order is a repeat.
• Each order has an order date, ship-as-of date, cancellation date and a date for each shipment.
• Automatic or manual order numbering with the ability to switch at any time.
• Multiple viewing options.
• One click to create a new order using the same manufacturer and season as any other order.
• One click to copy an order.
• Handles credits seamlessly.
• Automatic RA (return authorization) numbers.
• Filter either by order criteria or order-detail criteria.
• One click to make quantities shipped equal to quantities ordered by item or for all items.
• For PCs with modems, you can auto-dial the customer or manufacturer from the order screen (one click).

These are the orders your customers give you for the items you import. After customer and manufacturer are entered, all details are automatically populated on the order form, including commissions, discounts, etc. These values can easily be changed per order, if required. Orders always show totals for quantities ordered and shipped for commissions, pieces and dollars, including landed costs and unavailable items.

• Automatic or manual order numbering with the ability to switch any time.
• Multiple viewing options.
• One click to create a new order using the same manufacturer and season as any other order.
• One click to copy an order.
• One click to turn an order into a credit: values change automatically.
• Customize the information displayed on orders in a vraiety of formats: all details, customer confirmation, manufacturer copy, or specify the precise criteria.
• Automatic RA (return authorization) numbers.
• Filter either by order criteria or order-detail criteria.
• One click to make quantities shipped equal to quantities ordered by item or order.
• Enter quick fields for total pieces and dollars (great for trade shows!) and reports will indicate these values – after completing the order details, the quick fields are ignored in reports.
• For PCs with modems, you can auto-dial the customer or manufacturer from the order screen (one click).
• Automatically create an invoice with one click from the order screen.
• Indicate if an order is a repeat.
• Shows order date, ship-as-of date, cancellation date and the date of each shipment.
• View inventory for any item with one click.
• Optionally, limit quantities for items to those available from your inventory.

These are the orders you give to the manufacturers or suppliers from whom you import. After the manufacturer is entered, all details automatically populate the order form, including commissions, discounts, etc. These values can easily be changed, if required.

• Orders always show totals based on quantities ordered and shipped, including landed costs.
• Automatic order numbering.
• Multiple viewing options.
• Print orders two ways: all details; all details except quantities received and landed costs.
• Filter either by order criteria or order-detail criteria.
• One click to make quantities shipped to you equal to quantities ordered.
• For PCs with modems, you can auto-dial the manufacturer from the order screen (one click).
• Shows order date, ship-as-of date, cancellation date and the date you receive each shipment.
• Automatically handles taxes based on defaults for your company settings.
• Ability to add freight charges.
• View inventory for an order-detail’s style with one click.
• You can automatically create a house order by rolling up all the items your customers have ordered that have not already been rolled up. One click will do it, saving you hours of work for each order.
• View the stock order numbers and the number of order details from each that were rolled up into a house order.
• Flexible tool to increase quantites ordered, if required.

• These are generated with one click from your Stock Orders screen.
• Navigate with one click between orders and their invoices.
• Same general features as Stock Orders.
• Multiple printing options.
• Available balance of all credits are one click away.
• Unpaid balances of invoices are always displayed.
• You can enter multiple payments against any order and use credits as a form of payment.
• Supports ten types of payments.
• One click to create shipping box labels.

• Completely manages your expenses and payments.
• Create and print cheques on pre-printed voucher forms (like QuickBooks ®)

• Allows you to archive outdated data in a safe and easy manner.
• Wizard driven with complete instructions as you go, since this feature is used infrequently.
• Archived material may be accessed at any time.

Back to Top

---