For leather goods makers
Bomble for Leather Goods Makers
Bomble was built inside a working couture atelier, but its core — bespoke orders moving through cutting, stitching and finishing, with material stock and deposits against deadlines — fits a leather workshop just as naturally. Here is the honest map.
Updated 19 June 2026
The short answer
Bomble keeps every bespoke leather order, its production stages, its hide and hardware stock, and its money on one connected record instead of scattered notes and messages. Each bag or jacket moves through a pipeline you design — cutting, skiving, stitching, edge finishing, hardware, QC — with deposit and deadline tracking built in. It is atelier-born software, so the garment measurement fields are optional while orders, stages, inventory and finance carry the weight.
The pains of a bespoke leather workshop
A made-to-order bag or jacket is a sequence of careful, irreversible steps sold against a delivery date. The hide gets cut, skived, stitched, edge-finished and fitted with hardware, and each handoff is a place the job can sit while you forget it is waiting. Cut leather is expensive and unforgiving, so a mistracked order is real money.
Most makers run this on memory and a chat thread: which order is overdue, whose deposit is still outstanding, how many square feet of a given hide are left before the next commission needs it. None of that warns you in time, and none of it ties the cost of the leather to the price you charged. That is the gap Bomble fills.
- Sequential, irreversible steps where a stalled stage delays a costly piece.
- Deposits agreed verbally and balances chased only after delivery.
- Hides, linings and hardware run low mid-order with no warning.
- Delivery promises kept in your head rather than in anything that alerts you.
A pipeline shaped like your bench
Bomble lets you build a custom production pipeline with ordered stages and move each order through it on a board grouped by stage. You name the stages — cutting, skiving, stitching, edge finishing, hardware, 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 the client is notified on completion.
Per-order stage status (not started, in progress, done) means anyone in the shop can see what is waiting without asking. Orders carry deadlines with overdue and due-soon alerts, Rush and Priority flags, a Pickup or Ship delivery method, reference images for the design, fitting dates where a jacket needs one, and notes.
- Custom stages with responsible team, colour, QC pass/fail, optional steps and photo-required steps.
- Board view grouping every order by its current stage.
- Overdue and due-soon deadline alerts on the dashboard.
- Rush and Priority flags, plus Pickup or Ship delivery method.
- Reference images and notes kept on the order so the brief stays with the work.
Hides, hardware and money on the same record
Bomble tracks materials as inventory with cost per unit, current stock, a reorder threshold and a supplier. It was built for fabric by the metre, but the same model works for hides by the unit and for linings, thread, edge paint and hardware — anything you buy and draw down. Stock shows In stock, Low or Out badges, the system values your stock, and low-stock reorder alerts warn you before an order runs you short.
Each order tracks its price, payment kind (none, deposit or full), the deposit paid and a balance that recalculates as payments come in. The finance dashboard shows booked revenue, collected, outstanding and collected-this-month, while per-order economics expose material cost, labour cost and margin — so the expensive hide and the hours at the bench show up against what you actually charged.
- 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 orders surface first.
A team, time and a clean record
If you work with others, Bomble holds employee records with role, level and wage rate, groups 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 spent hand-stitching turns into a real number in your margin.
Granular permissions let a maker 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 chat thread never could, each 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 a leather workshop actually uses
- Custom multi-stage pipelines (cutting, stitching, edge finishing, hardware, QC) with a board grouped by stage.
- Deadline tracking with overdue and due-soon alerts, plus Rush and Priority flags and Pickup or Ship delivery.
- 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 so the expensive hides show up against price.
- Client records with contact details, type (Individual / Boutique / Wholesale), source and notes; measurement fields optional.
- Per-order client messaging by email and WhatsApp, with stage-update, ready and payment-reminder templates.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Bomble really suited to leather goods?
- Bomble was built inside a couture atelier, so it is honest to call it atelier-born rather than leather-specific. But a bespoke bag or jacket is the same shape of work: a custom order moving through ordered stages, with material stock, deposits and deadlines. Those general features transfer well, and garment measurements stay optional.
- Can I track hides and hardware instead of fabric?
- Yes. The inventory module tracks any material by the unit, with cost, current stock, a reorder threshold and a supplier. Hides, linings, thread, edge paint and hardware all fit, with In stock / Low / Out badges, stock valuation and low-stock reorder alerts.
- Can I build my own production stages?
- Yes. You design the pipeline. Name each stage — cutting, skiving, stitching, edge finishing, hardware, 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 are deposits and balances handled?
- Each order has a price and a payment kind (none, deposit or full). You record the deposit and later payments, and the outstanding balance recalculates automatically. The finance dashboard shows booked, collected and outstanding totals.
- Can I see whether a custom order was actually profitable?
- Yes. Per-order economics combine material cost (units used times cost per unit) and labour cost (hours logged times wage rate) into a margin, and orders are sorted to surface unprofitable ones first — useful when an expensive hide is involved.
- Do I have to use the body measurement fields?
- No. The 22 measurement fields are for garment ateliers and are entirely optional. A leather maker 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 bespoke leather work. Free 3-day trial, no card required.