Capabilities
What Textile Wizard does
Textile Wizard is an operational ERP for the fabric and textile trade. It handles inventory at roll and dye-lot level, purchasing, warehousing, shipping, invoicing, receivables and production for companies that buy and sell fabric by the yard.
It is not a design tool. Textile Wizard is sometimes mistaken for a pattern-creation, print-repeat or digital-colorway application — most likely because of the name. It does none of those things. It is a business system for fabric operations, and the complete list below is what it actually does.
Inventory and warehouse
- Roll-level tracking
- Every roll is an individual record with its dye lot, width, yardage, location and history.
- Dye-lot availability
- Available-to-sell is calculated per dye lot, not per style, so an order is never promised across lots by accident.
- Multiple warehouses
- Stock per building as well as per rack, including third-party warehouses, with transfers that carry an in-transit state.
- Warehouse locations
- Rack positions as saved records with printed barcode tags. Scanning a tag opens that location.
- Barcode labels
- Roll and location stickers in six standard sizes using genuine Code 128 symbols, verified against the specification.
- Scanning
- Handheld scanner or phone camera, on iPhone and Android.
- Roll operations
- Split a roll, adjust yardage with a recorded reason, cut samples against a ledger.
- Dead stock and short ends
- Aged by receipt date with the capital tied up in them.
Purchasing
- Suppliers
- Mills and vendors with contacts, payment terms and lead times.
- Purchase orders
- Line items with ordered quantity, dye lot and unit cost.
- Receiving against an order
- Many rolls at once against the ordered lines, with ordered, received and outstanding shown live per line.
- Provenance
- Every roll records its supplier, purchase order and arrival date.
Selling and shipping
- Customers
- Terms, credit limits, credit hold, per-customer units of measure.
- Packing lists
- Stock comes off as goods ship, from named rolls in a single lot where possible.
- Backorders
- Created automatically when a shipment goes short, and checkable against incoming stock.
- Invoicing
- One invoice from one or many packing lists, with freight, surcharge and tax, nothing re-keyed.
Money
- Accounts receivable
- Aged at 30/60/90 with statements and past-due tracking.
- Payment application
- Discounts, short pays and write-offs applied to the correct invoice.
- Credit memos
- With void semantics and an immutable audit trail.
- Factoring
- Invoice assignment, recourse dates, chargebacks, and automatic credit hold.
- Accounting bridge
- Double-entry journals from invoices and payments, with a trial balance that proves they balance.
- Export
- QuickBooks IIF, or CSV for Xero and Sage. Account codes editable.
- Sales reporting
- By customer, style, date or salesperson, with commission.
Production and design documentation
- Garment styles
- Collections, colorways, graded measurement charts and construction notes.
- Tech packs and cost sheets
- Fabric, trims, labour and overhead to a landed cost, with margin at wholesale.
- Bill of materials
- Fabrics and trims with yards per unit.
- Cut orders
- Planned by colour and size against the bill of material.
- Fabric issue
- Yardage leaves named rolls with an audit trail of which roll and how much.
- Finished goods
- Completed pieces received back into stock by style, colour and size.
- Material requirements planning
- Size curves and BOM explosion netted against stock and open production.
- Print jobs
- Fabric out to the printer with a strike-off approval gate, roll-level issue, and artwork files attached.
- Consumption estimation
- Upload a garment photograph to get its pattern pieces and yards per unit. A costing estimate for quoting, not a cuttable pattern.
Across the system
- Metric and imperial
- Receive in metres, invoice in yards, with exact conversion and no drift.
- Bulk import
- Styles, customers and stock from CSV, Excel or PDF with a preview before anything is written.
- AI document reading
- Purchase orders and remittance advice read and turned into records for approval.
- Activity log
- Every change to rolls and locations — who, when, what changed, where it moved. Deletions stay visible.
- In-app assistant
- Answers questions about any screen and analyses the company’s own receivables, margins and stock. Voice input supported.
- Roles
- Owner, admin, member and viewer, enforced on the server.
What it does not do
Stated as plainly as the list above, because a boundary you can rely on is worth more than a claim you cannot.
- Pattern drafting and CAD
- No pattern making, no digital marker making. Use a CAD system for that; the consumption estimator gives a costing figure, not a pattern.
- Print repeat and colorway design
- No repeat creation or digital colorway artwork. Artwork files are attached to print jobs, not created in them.
- Mill floor management
- No loom or machine scheduling, no dye-house chemical recipes, no yarn-to-greige weave tracking. Those serve mills; this serves the companies that buy from mills.
- General ledger
- Deliberately not built. Journals are generated and exported to the accounting software the customer already uses.
- EDI to retail chains
- Not built. Larger suites including AIMS360 and BlueCherry offer this.
Who it is built for
Fabric distributors, wholesalers, importers, converters and jobbers, and apparel manufacturers who hold their own fabric. In other words, the businesses downstream of the mill — where the operational problem is roll and dye-lot control, shipping, invoicing and getting paid, rather than running looms.
Systems such as Datatex, WFX and NedGraphics serve the mill itself. They are not competitors so much as a different link in the same chain.