Full price, then a promotion, then whatever clears it before the next season lands. Every fashion business plans to do this. Very few can tell you afterwards how much of the season actually sold at the price they bought it for.
A fashion buy is a bet placed six months early. What decides whether it paid is not the buy — it is how quickly you notice which half of it is not moving.
You cannot buy a season perfectly. You can find out in April rather than in June which part of it went wrong, and that is almost entirely a question of how the stock was set up.
How the stock is structured decides everything downstream, so it is worth being precise about what this does and does not do — particularly on sizes.
A style in three colours and five sizes is fifteen items, each with its own code, category, brand and stock figure. Group them by brand and category and the style still reports as a style.
Being straight about it: there is no grid that holds sizes across one product. That has a real cost in setup effort, and a real benefit in that every size has its own figure, its own reorder level and its own sales history.
The price is set on the document, so a promotion or a clearance is a commercial decision at the till rather than a configuration exercise. Discounts and the person who gave them are logged against the sale.
Margin by item and category then tells you what a line actually realised across the season rather than what its ticket price said.
Stock is multi-warehouse, so you can see that the mediums have gone in Deira and are sitting in Sharjah — and move them with a transfer that posts on both sides instead of discounting them where they are.
That single habit is usually worth more than any pricing feature.
A return raises a credit note against the original sale, restores the quantity and reverses the revenue, the cost of sale and the VAT together, so a garment back on Saturday is genuinely back in stock.
Returns and exchanges are logged against whoever processed them, which matters on a shop floor with weekend staff.
No card, no setup call. Bring one style you bought last season and see what it actually realised.
A fashion till has to cope with a queue, a fitting room, three exchanges and a customer paying half in cash. None of that is unusual. All of it has to end up in the books.
Barcode at the till, on a counter machine or a tablet. The price comes off the item and the discount, if there is one, is recorded as a discount rather than as a lower price.
The bill parks and the queue keeps moving. Recall it when they come out of the fitting room rather than starting the sale again.
Take it however it comes on one sale, with the payment mode recorded so takings reconcile at close.
Every sale carries the cashier and the shift. At close the opening float, the expected cash and the counted cash are recorded and the variance is calculated for you.
Not a generic retail tool with a currency switch bolted on the side.
Invoices, credit notes and purchases carry VAT as you raise them, with the totals your return needs already summed. See VAT accounting software and what e-invoicing will require.
Buy in dollars or euros with dated exchange rates, and land freight, duty and clearing across the shipment so season margin is measured against what the stock cost to get here.
Basic covers a single branch from AED 115 a month. Multi-branch stock and transfers start on Professional at AED 215, which covers three — see pricing.
The shop floor, the stockroom, the buying and the ledger are one platform. That is what turns “how did that season do” from an argument into a report.
See the full feature listEvery size, colour and accessory sits in the same inventory, across every branch you run.
Orders, goods receipts and supplier bills in any currency, so a season arriving updates stock and what you owe in one movement.
Chart of accounts, journals, AR and AP, post-dated cheques, bank reconciliation and an audit trail — the ledger is here.
A stock adjustment over a value you set can be routed for sign-off before it posts — useful when write-offs are how a bad season quietly disappears.
The people on the floor at the weekend sit in the same system as the payroll that pays them.
If clothing is one department among several, the general retail POS setup is the place to start.
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Not as a grid. Each size and colour is set up as its own item with its own code and stock figure, so a style in three colours and five sizes is fifteen items. That is more work at setup, and it does mean every size carries its own reorder level and its own sales history. If a size grid is essential to how you work, it is worth saying so before you commit rather than after.
Yes. A return raises a credit note against the original sale, restores the quantity and reverses the revenue, cost of sale and VAT together. An exchange is a return and a sale, and both post, so the two sizes end up with the right figures.
Yes. The price is set on the document at the till, so a promotion is a commercial decision rather than a configuration change, and the discount is recorded as a discount against the person who gave it. What there is not is a scheduled promotion engine that switches prices on and off by date.
Yes. Multi-branch stock, users and reporting sit on one set of books with role-based access, and transfers between shops post on both sides. Multi-branch starts on the Professional plan, which covers 1 branches.
Yes. VAT is calculated on every invoice, credit note and purchase as you raise it, in AED, with the totals your return needs already summed and your TRN on the tax invoice.
Yes, if the stock is set up per size and colour. Margin by item and category runs against the moving weighted-average cost, which includes freight and duty landed across the shipment — so it is what the season realised rather than what the ticket prices suggested.
No. This runs the shop, the stock and the books; it is not an e-commerce platform and it does not currently sync one. If your online channel is a large part of the business, that is worth raising early.
Yes. Sales carry the cashier and the shift, and closing records the opening float, expected cash and counted cash with the variance calculated. Returns, exchanges and discounts are logged against whoever processed them.
No. It runs in a browser on the machine you already have. A keyboard-emulating USB or Bluetooth barcode scanner, a thermal receipt printer and the cash drawer that opens off it are the usual counter additions.
Bring one style you bought last season and a day on the floor, and see what the line actually realised against what it cost to land. Fourteen days free, no card, export any time.