Is Bomble built for costume work?

Bomble was built inside a couture atelier, so it is honest to call it atelier-born. But a costume workroom is the same shape of work — many bespoke pieces, fittings, a team and fabric against a fixed date — and several features fit directly, especially measurements and fittings. The rest adapts cleanly.

Can I manage a whole production, not just one costume?

Yes. Each piece is an order, and you can group all the pieces of a production under a collection to treat it as one body of work. The pipeline board, the calendar and the reports then give you the whole build at a glance against the show date.

How does Bomble handle fittings against an immovable date?

Fitting dates are stored per piece and surface as a fitting-today alert on the dashboard, alongside overdue and due-soon deadline alerts. A calendar shows every deadline and fitting as an event, so nothing in the sequence slips before opening night.

Can I keep a production on budget and on schedule with a team?

Yes. Teams drive who owns each stage, a per-order timer and per-employee logs turn build hours into labour cost, and per-order economics plus the finance dashboard track spend. Reports cover on-time delivery, stage bottlenecks, department load, employee hours and fabric consumption.

Can makers see only their own work?

Yes. Granular per-user permissions let you scope what each person sees, so a stitcher or maker can see their assigned pieces and stages without seeing budgets or money they should not.

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Bomble for Costume Makers

Bomble was built inside a working couture atelier, and a costume workroom runs on the same engine — many bespoke pieces, fittings, a team, fabric stock and an immovable opening night. Here is how it maps to your build.

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Updated 19 June 2026

The short answer

Bomble keeps every costume in a production, its build stages, its fittings, its fabric stock and its budget on one connected record instead of spreadsheets and a wall of notes. Each piece moves through a pipeline you design — pattern, cut, build, fitting, finishing, dye/distress, QC — against a fixed show date, with deadline alerts, team assignment and time tracking built in. It is atelier-born software, so the measurement fields fit costume work directly while everything else adapts.

The pains of a costume workroom

A production is dozens of bespoke pieces built by a team against a date that does not move. Opening night, the shoot day, the premiere — the deadline is fixed, the fittings have to land in order, and the build crosses many hands. When a single hero costume slips a stage or a fitting is missed, it is not one late order, it is a scene without a costume.

Most workrooms hold this in spreadsheets, paper and a group chat: who is building what, which fitting is tomorrow, how much of a dyed fabric is left, whether the build is on budget. None of that alerts you, and none of it keeps the measurements, the stages, the fabric and the spend connected per piece. That is precisely the gap Bomble closes.

Many pieces per production, all aimed at one immovable show date.
Fittings that must happen in sequence and are easy to lose track of.
A team across pattern, cutting, building and finishing with unclear handoffs.
Fabric and budget tracked loosely until the production overruns.

A pipeline and a calendar against the show date

Bomble lets you build a custom production pipeline with ordered stages and move each costume through it on a board grouped by stage. You name the stages — pattern, cutting, build, fitting, finishing, dye or distress, QC — and configure each: the responsible team, a colour, whether it needs a pass/fail quality check, whether it is optional, whether a photo is required to close it, and whether to notify on completion.

Every piece is an order with a deadline that surfaces as overdue or due-soon on the dashboard, Rush and Priority flags for hero looks, and one or more fitting dates per piece. A "fitting today" alert and a calendar of deadlines and fittings keep the whole build visible against the date that matters. Group your pieces by collection to treat a production as a single body of work.

Custom stages with responsible team, colour, QC pass/fail, optional steps and photo-required steps.
Board view grouping every costume by its current stage.
Overdue, due-soon and fitting-today alerts on the dashboard.
Calendar of deadlines and fitting dates as events.
Collections to group all the pieces of one production together.

Fittings, measurements and a real team

Costume work lives on bodies, and here the atelier roots help directly: each performer can be a client with 22 stored body measurements grouped by anatomy, reused across every piece they wear, with per-order overrides when a costume needs them. Fitting dates are stored per piece so nothing in the sequence gets lost.

A workroom is a team, and Bomble models it: employee records with role, level and wage rate, organised into teams that drive who owns each stage. A per-order timer and per-employee time logs turn build hours into labour cost (hours times wage rate), and granular permissions let a stitcher or a maker see their own work without seeing budgets they should not.

22 stored measurements per performer, reused across pieces, with per-order overrides.
Fitting dates per piece with a fitting-today alert.
Employee and team records; teams drive stage responsibility.
Per-order and per-employee time tracking; labour cost from wage rate.
Per-user permissions so budgets stay hidden where they should.

Fabric, budget and a record that reports

Bomble tracks materials as inventory with cost per unit, current stock, a reorder threshold and a supplier — fabric by the metre, plus trims and any consumable you draw down. Stock badges (In stock, Low, Out), stock valuation and low-stock reorder alerts keep a build from stalling, and usage logged per piece feeds a consumption report.

On budget, each piece tracks price (or build cost), payment kind and any deposit, with a finance dashboard for booked, collected and outstanding, and per-order economics showing material and labour cost against the figure. Reports — on-time delivery, employee hours, stage bottlenecks, top clients, fabric consumption, department load — give a production manager real numbers, each with a date range and PDF export.

Fabric and trim inventory by the unit with low-stock reorder alerts and a consumption report.
Per-piece economics: material cost and labour cost against price or build cost.
Finance dashboard for booked, collected and outstanding across the production.
Reports with date ranges and PDF export, including stage bottlenecks and department load.
Per-order client messaging by email and WhatsApp for fitting-ready and ready-for-pickup notices.

With Bomble

What a costume workroom actually uses

Custom multi-stage pipelines (pattern, cut, build, fitting, finishing, QC) with a board grouped by stage.
Deadline tracking with overdue, due-soon and fitting-today alerts against a fixed show date, plus a calendar.
22 stored measurements per performer, reused across pieces, with per-order overrides.
Collections to group every piece of one production as a single body of work.
Teams and time tracking; labour cost from hours times wage rate, with stage-bottleneck and department-load reports.
Fabric and trim inventory by the unit with low-stock reorder alerts and a consumption report.
Per-order economics and a finance dashboard to keep a production on budget.

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Frequently asked questions

Is Bomble built for costume work?: Bomble was built inside a couture atelier, so it is honest to call it atelier-born. But a costume workroom is the same shape of work — many bespoke pieces, fittings, a team and fabric against a fixed date — and several features fit directly, especially measurements and fittings. The rest adapts cleanly.
Can I manage a whole production, not just one costume?: Yes. Each piece is an order, and you can group all the pieces of a production under a collection to treat it as one body of work. The pipeline board, the calendar and the reports then give you the whole build at a glance against the show date.
How does Bomble handle fittings against an immovable date?: Fitting dates are stored per piece and surface as a fitting-today alert on the dashboard, alongside overdue and due-soon deadline alerts. A calendar shows every deadline and fitting as an event, so nothing in the sequence slips before opening night.
Can I store performer measurements?: Yes. Each performer can be a client with 22 stored body measurements grouped by anatomy, reused across every piece they wear, with per-order overrides when a specific costume needs them.
Can I keep a production on budget and on schedule with a team?: Yes. Teams drive who owns each stage, a per-order timer and per-employee logs turn build hours into labour cost, and per-order economics plus the finance dashboard track spend. Reports cover on-time delivery, stage bottlenecks, department load, employee hours and fabric consumption.
Can makers see only their own work?: Yes. Granular per-user permissions let you scope what each person sees, so a stitcher or maker can see their assigned pieces and stages without seeing budgets or money they should not.

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Bring a whole production onto one record, against one date.

Bomble was built inside a working atelier and fits a costume workroom naturally. Free 3-day trial, no card required.

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