Can Bomble manage multiple collections and samples at once?

Yes. Collections carry a season, target date, owning team and a live product count, and products with variants and images belong to them. Samples and in-development pieces sit in the same catalogue with their own status, so the next collection takes shape alongside the one you are shipping.

Does it track production stages for a whole collection?

Yes. You define a custom pipeline of ordered stages — each with a responsible team, an optional QC gate, a photo requirement and client-notification option. Orders move through with a per-order status, and a board groups all work by stage for a studio-wide view.

Can I manage my team and see where time goes?

Employees carry role, level, wage rate and contact details, organised into teams with a department, workshop and shift pattern. A per-order timer and per-employee time logs capture hours, and labour cost is calculated as hours logged times wage rate.

How does Bomble handle fabric for a collection?

Fabric is inventory with composition, supplier, cost per metre, stock in metres and reorder thresholds, with low-stock alerts. Metres are logged per order and feed a fabric-consumption report, so you know what a collection cost in cloth and when to reorder.

Is Bomble a PLM for fashion design?

No — Bomble is atelier-born production software, not a PLM, and it does not pretend to be one. For a small label that needs to run collections, samples, a team, fabric and production stages in one connected workspace, it covers the moving parts that usually live in several separate tools.

For fashion design studios

Bomble for Fashion Design Studios

A small label is building a collection, sampling the next, and answering the orders from the last — all at once, with a team to coordinate and fabric to account for. Bomble holds the whole studio on one connected record so a season ships on time.

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Updated 19 June 2026

The short answer

A designer studio juggles more than orders: collections and the products in them, samples in development, a small team across roles, fabric that is real money on a shelf, and the production stages that turn a sketch into a shipped garment. Bomble was built inside a working couture house to hold exactly that — collections with seasons and target dates, custom production pipelines, fabric inventory with consumption tracking, team and time tracking, and reports that show on-time rate, bottlenecks and margin. It is atelier-born and does not pretend to be a PLM, but for a small label running production it connects the moving parts that usually live in five different tools.

The chaos of running a small label

A designer studio rarely does one thing at a time. There is a collection to deliver, samples to develop for the next one, and reorders or commissions from the last still moving through production. Each of those touches a different mix of people, fabric and deadlines, and when they live in scattered spreadsheets, group chats and a fabric cupboard nobody counts, the season starts to slip in ways you only notice when it is too late.

The recurring pains are structural: no single view of which products belong to which collection and where each stands in production; fabric ordered and cut with no honest running stock; a team whose hours and workload are invisible until something is late; and no quick answer to the questions a founder needs — are we on time, which stage is the bottleneck, which orders actually made money.

Multiple collections and samples in flight, with no single view of where each piece stands.
Production stages tracked in chat and memory rather than one shared board.
Fabric that is real capital, ordered and cut without an honest running count.
A small team whose hours, workload and stage handoffs are invisible.
No fast answer to on-time rate, bottlenecks or which work was profitable.

Collections, products and samples in one place

Bomble organises work the way a label thinks about it. Collections carry a season and year, a target date, a cover image, an owning team and a status, with a live count of the products inside. Products hold a name, SKU, category, sale price, status, multiple images and size/colour variants, and can belong to a collection — so a season is a real, navigable thing rather than a folder of files.

If you already keep a catalogue elsewhere, you can bring it in via CSV paste or import from WooCommerce, BigCommerce or Shopify, with a preview before anything commits and an upsert so re-imports do not duplicate. Shopify can be connected once via OAuth for a live, webhook-driven sync. Samples and in-development pieces sit in the same catalogue with their own status, so the next collection takes shape alongside the one you are shipping.

Collections with season/year, target date, cover image, owning team and product count.
Products with SKU, category, price, multiple images and size/colour variants.
Import via CSV paste, WooCommerce, BigCommerce or Shopify, with preview and upsert.
One-time Shopify OAuth connect with live webhook sync and encrypted token storage.

Production stages, team and time

Every garment moves through a custom production pipeline you define — ordered stages with a name, a responsible team, a colour, an optional QC pass/fail gate, a photo requirement and an option to notify the client on completion. Orders move through those stages with a per-order status of not started, in progress or done, and a board groups everything by stage so you can see the whole studio’s flow at a glance.

The team is modelled properly: employees with a role, level (junior to master), status, wage rate and contact details, organised into teams with a department, workshop location and shift pattern. Teams drive stage responsibility and order assignment. A per-order timer and per-employee time logs capture the hours, and labour cost is hours logged multiplied by wage rate — so effort becomes a number you can actually see.

Custom pipeline stages with responsible team, QC gate, photo requirement and client notification.
Per-order stage status and a board grouping all work by stage.
Employees with role, level, wage rate; teams with department, workshop and shift pattern.
Per-order and per-employee time tracking; labour cost = hours × wage rate.

Fabric, finances and the reports a founder needs

Fabric is tracked as inventory: name, colour, composition, supplier, cost per metre, stock in metres and a reorder threshold, with in-stock/low/out badges, stock-value totals and low-stock alerts. Metres are logged per order, feeding a fabric-consumption report so you know what a collection actually cost in cloth and when to reorder before a run stalls.

On the finance side, each order carries price, material cost (metres × cost/metre), labour cost, margin and margin %, with orders sorted to surface the unprofitable ones first. Across the studio, a date-ranged report suite — all with PDF export — answers the founder’s questions: on-time delivery rate overall and by team, revenue by collection, stage bottlenecks, employee hours, department load and top clients. RBAC keeps it safe to bring on freelancers and staff, with granular per-user permissions, built-in roles and email invites, so people see their own work and the money stays hidden where it should.

Fabric inventory with cost per metre, stock levels, reorder alerts and per-order consumption logs.
Per-order economics: material cost, labour cost, margin and margin %, unprofitable orders surfaced first.
Date-ranged reports with PDF export: on-time rate, revenue by collection, stage bottlenecks, hours, department load.
Granular RBAC with built-in roles and email invites — own-work scope and hidden money.

With Bomble

Why small labels build with Bomble

Collections with season, target date and product count, plus a product catalogue with variants and images.
Catalogue import via CSV, WooCommerce, BigCommerce or Shopify — including live Shopify webhook sync.
Custom production pipelines with QC gates, photo requirements and a board grouping work by stage.
Team and time tracking: employees, teams, per-order and per-employee timers, labour cost from wage rates.
Fabric inventory with cost per metre, reorder alerts and a per-collection consumption report.
Per-order margin tracking and a finance dashboard for booked, collected and outstanding revenue.
Date-ranged reports with PDF export — on-time rate, revenue by collection, stage bottlenecks — plus granular RBAC.

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Frequently asked questions

Can Bomble manage multiple collections and samples at once?: Yes. Collections carry a season, target date, owning team and a live product count, and products with variants and images belong to them. Samples and in-development pieces sit in the same catalogue with their own status, so the next collection takes shape alongside the one you are shipping.
Does it track production stages for a whole collection?: Yes. You define a custom pipeline of ordered stages — each with a responsible team, an optional QC gate, a photo requirement and client-notification option. Orders move through with a per-order status, and a board groups all work by stage for a studio-wide view.
Can I manage my team and see where time goes?: Employees carry role, level, wage rate and contact details, organised into teams with a department, workshop and shift pattern. A per-order timer and per-employee time logs capture hours, and labour cost is calculated as hours logged times wage rate.
How does Bomble handle fabric for a collection?: Fabric is inventory with composition, supplier, cost per metre, stock in metres and reorder thresholds, with low-stock alerts. Metres are logged per order and feed a fabric-consumption report, so you know what a collection cost in cloth and when to reorder.
What reports can a founder actually get out of it?: A date-ranged suite with PDF export: on-time delivery rate overall and by team, revenue by collection, stage bottlenecks, employee hours, department load and top clients — plus per-order margin and margin % that surface unprofitable work first.
Is Bomble a PLM for fashion design?: No — Bomble is atelier-born production software, not a PLM, and it does not pretend to be one. For a small label that needs to run collections, samples, a team, fabric and production stages in one connected workspace, it covers the moving parts that usually live in several separate tools.

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