For embroidery studios
Bomble for Embroidery Studios
Bomble was built inside a working couture atelier, but its bones — custom commissions, multi-stage handwork, material stock and deposits against deadlines — fit an embroidery studio just as well. Here is how it maps to your bench.
Updated 19 June 2026
The short answer
Bomble keeps every embroidery commission, its stages, its thread and backing stock, and its money on one connected record instead of scattered notebooks and chats. Each piece moves through a pipeline you design — digitising, framing, stitch-out, hand finishing, pressing, QC — with deadline and deposit tracking built in. It is atelier-born software, so the measurement fields are optional and the rest adapts cleanly to commission embroidery.
The pains of a commission embroidery bench
Bespoke embroidery is slow, sequential handwork sold against a promise date. A single monogrammed jacket or a goldwork badge passes through digitising, hooping or framing, the actual stitching, hand finishing, pressing and a final check — and at every handoff something can stall without anyone noticing. The work is easy to love and hard to track.
Most studios run this on memory, a notebook and a group chat: which piece is overdue, whose deposit never cleared, how much metallic thread is left before the next commission eats it. None of those tools raise their hand when a deadline is tomorrow, and none of them connect the money to the piece. That is exactly the gap Bomble closes.
- Sequential handwork where one stalled stage quietly delays delivery.
- Deposits taken verbally, balances forgotten until after the piece ships.
- Thread, beads and backing run low mid-commission with no warning.
- Promise dates lived in your head, not in anything that alerts you.
A pipeline shaped like your bench
Bomble lets you build a custom production pipeline with ordered stages, then move each commission through it on a board grouped by stage. You name the stages yourself — digitising, framing, stitch-out, hand finishing, pressing, QC — and configure each one: which team is responsible, its colour, whether it requires a pass/fail quality check, whether it is optional, whether a photo is required to close it, and whether the client is notified when it completes.
Per-order stage status (not started, in progress, done) means anyone at the bench can see what is waiting and what is moving without asking. Orders carry deadlines with overdue and due-soon alerts, Rush and Priority flags, fitting or hand-off dates, reference images for the design, and notes.
- Custom stages with responsible team, colour, QC pass/fail, optional steps and photo-required steps.
- Board view grouping every commission by its current stage.
- Overdue and due-soon deadline alerts on the dashboard.
- Rush and Priority flags for the jobs that cannot wait.
- Reference images attached to the order so the design brief stays with the work.
Thread, materials and money on the same record
Bomble tracks materials as inventory with cost per unit, current stock, a reorder threshold and a supplier — built for fabric by the metre, but it works for any consumable you buy and draw down, from thread cones to backing and stabiliser. Stock shows In stock, Low or Out badges, the system values your stock, and low-stock reorder alerts warn you before a commission runs you dry.
On the money side, each order tracks its price, payment kind (none, deposit or full), the deposit paid and a balance that recalculates as payments land. The finance dashboard shows booked revenue, collected, outstanding and collected-this-month, and per-order economics expose material cost, labour cost and margin so you can see which commissions actually pay.
- Material inventory with cost per unit, stock level, reorder threshold and supplier.
- In stock / Low / Out badges, stock valuation and low-stock reorder alerts.
- Usage logged per order, feeding a consumption report.
- Deposit-paid against price with live balance recalculation.
- Per-order margin from material and labour cost so unprofitable jobs surface first.
A team, time and a clean record
If more than one person stitches, Bomble holds employee records with role, level and wage rate, organises them into teams that drive stage responsibility, and tracks time with a per-order timer and per-employee logs. Labour cost is hours logged times wage rate, so the time at the frame becomes real numbers in your margins.
Granular permissions mean a stitcher can see their own work without seeing the money, and reports — on-time delivery, employee hours, stage bottlenecks, top clients, material consumption — answer the questions a notebook never could, all with a date-range picker and PDF export.
- Employee and team records; teams drive who owns each stage.
- Per-order timer and per-employee time logs; labour cost from wage rate.
- Per-user permissions so money stays hidden where it should.
- Reports with date ranges and PDF export, including stage bottlenecks.
With Bomble
What an embroidery studio actually uses
- Custom multi-stage pipelines (digitising, framing, stitch-out, finishing, QC) with a board grouped by stage.
- Deadline tracking with overdue and due-soon alerts, plus Rush and Priority flags.
- Material inventory by the unit — cost, stock, reorder threshold, supplier — with low-stock alerts and a consumption report.
- Deposit and balance tracking per order, with live balance recalculation and a finance dashboard.
- Per-order economics: material cost, labour cost and margin to see which commissions pay.
- Client records with contact details, source and notes; body-measurement fields are there but optional.
- Per-order client messaging by email and WhatsApp, with stage-update, ready and payment-reminder templates.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Bomble actually built for embroidery?
- Bomble was built inside a couture atelier, so it is honest to say it is atelier-born rather than embroidery-specific. But the work is the same shape: custom commissions moving through ordered handwork stages, with material stock, deposits and deadlines. Those general features transfer cleanly, and the measurement fields stay optional.
- Can I track thread, beads and backing instead of fabric?
- Yes. The inventory module tracks any consumable by the unit, with cost, current stock, a reorder threshold and a supplier. You get In stock / Low / Out badges, stock valuation, and low-stock reorder alerts so a commission never stalls for want of thread.
- Can I build my own embroidery stages?
- Yes. You design the pipeline. Name each stage — digitising, framing, stitch-out, hand finishing, pressing, QC — and set its responsible team, colour, whether it needs a pass/fail check, whether it is optional, and whether a photo is required to close it.
- How does Bomble handle deposits and balances?
- Each order has a price and a payment kind (none, deposit or full). You record the deposit and any later payments, and the outstanding balance recalculates automatically. The finance dashboard shows booked, collected and outstanding totals.
- Will it alert me about a deadline?
- Yes. Deadlines surface on the dashboard as overdue and due-soon attention items, and fitting or hand-off dates appear there too. The calendar shows deadlines and fitting dates as events. Nothing relies on you remembering.
- Do I have to fill in body measurements?
- No. The 22 measurement fields exist for garment ateliers and are entirely optional. An embroidery studio can ignore them and still use orders, stages, inventory, deposits, deadlines, teams and reports in full.
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Bomble was built inside a working atelier and adapts cleanly to commission embroidery. Free 3-day trial, no card required.