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Order Tracking for Couture Ateliers
When you have twenty gowns open at once, "where is that order?" should never need a phone call to the workroom. Bomble follows each order through your own stages and surfaces what is overdue, due soon, or in for a fitting today.
Updated 19 June 2026
The short answer
Order tracking means always knowing the exact state of every garment you have promised to deliver — which stage it is in, who is working on it, when it is due, and what is still owed. Spreadsheets and notebooks cannot do this under volume because they sit still and never raise a hand. Bomble gives every order a live record that moves through your own production pipeline, shows up on a board grouped by stage, and surfaces overdue and due-soon work on the dashboard the moment you log in.
The problem: nobody is sure which order is where
It starts small. One gown is at the cutter, two are in for a first fitting, one is waiting on a fabric that has not arrived, and a bride is messaging to ask if hers is ready. With ten orders open you can hold it in your head. With thirty you cannot, and the workroom answers "where is that order?" by walking to the rail and looking.
The cost is not abstract. A missed deadline on a wedding gown is not a late report — it is a client crisis you cannot undo. An order that quietly stalled behind a missing fabric does not announce itself; you discover it when the bride calls. Every hour spent reconstructing status from memory, sticky notes and group chats is an hour not spent sewing, and the one order that slips through is the one that costs you a referral.
- Status lives in someone's head, a notebook, and three WhatsApp threads at once.
- Deadlines pass silently because nothing tells you they have.
- Stalled orders hide behind missing fabric or a skipped fitting until a client asks.
- Every "where is that order?" interrupts the people who should be making it.
The fix: one live record per order, on your stages
In Bomble every order is a single record with an auto-incrementing number, a client, a deadline, a price and a delivery method — and it moves through a production pipeline you define yourself. You set the stages your atelier actually uses, in order, each with its own name, colour and responsible team. As work progresses, each order carries a per-stage status of Not started, In progress or Done.
Because the stages are yours, the pipeline matches how your house really works rather than a generic to-do list. A pipeline board groups every open order by the stage it sits in, so a single glance answers the question the workroom used to answer on foot: this many gowns at cutting, these two in finishing, this one stuck before fitting.
- Custom production stages with name, position, responsible team and colour.
- Per-order stage status: Not started, In progress, Done — moved as work advances.
- A pipeline board that groups every order by its current stage.
- Rush and Priority flags so the urgent gowns stay visible.
- Delivery method (Pickup or Ship) and fitting dates held on the order itself.
Nothing slips, because the dashboard watches for you
A record only prevents disasters if it speaks up. Bomble's dashboard greets you with the numbers that matter — active orders, garments in production, balance owed and your next or overdue deadlines — and an attention list that pulls forward exactly what needs you now: anything overdue, anything due soon, and anyone in for a fitting today.
Deadline tracking carries visual overdue and due-soon alerts so a late gown is impossible to miss. When you do need to drill in, deep filtering and sorting take you straight to the slice you care about, and you can fix things in place without opening every order.
- Overdue, due-soon and fitting-today items surfaced automatically on the dashboard.
- Filter by stage, collection, team, payment status, flags, delivery, overdue or fitting.
- Sort by deadline, amount owed, order number, client, date or stage.
- Card or table view, saved to your preference, with inline cell editing.
- A calendar view of every deadline and fitting date as events.
With Bomble
What you get for order tracking
- Custom production pipelines with ordered stages, each with a colour and responsible team.
- A pipeline board that groups every open order by the stage it is in.
- Per-order stage status — Not started, In progress, Done — moved as work advances.
- Dashboard attention items: overdue, due-soon and fitting-today surfaced automatically.
- Deep filtering by stage, collection, team, payment status, flags and delivery, with saved card or table views.
- Rush and Priority flags, plus auto-incrementing order numbers per atelier.
- A calendar of deadlines and fittings, and global search across orders by number, client or notes.
Frequently asked questions
- How does Bomble track where each order is in production?
- Every order moves through a production pipeline you define, with your own ordered stages. Each order carries a per-stage status of Not started, In progress or Done, and a board groups all open orders by their current stage so you can see the whole atelier at a glance.
- Can I set up my own production stages?
- Yes. Pipelines are fully custom: you name each stage, set its position, assign a responsible team and a colour, and configure options like requires-QC, optional/skippable, photo-required and notify-client-on-completion.
- How does Bomble stop me missing a deadline?
- Deadline tracking shows overdue and due-soon visual alerts, and the dashboard's attention list surfaces everything overdue, due soon, or in for a fitting today the moment you open it. There is also a calendar view of deadlines and fitting dates.
- Can I quickly find a specific group of orders?
- Yes. You can filter by stage, collection, team, payment status, payment kind, flags, delivery method, overdue or fitting, and sort by deadline, amount owed, order number, client, date or stage. Views are saved as card or table, and you can edit cells inline.
- Will the workroom and I be looking at the same information?
- Yes. Each order is one shared record the whole atelier reads and writes, with per-user permissions so teammates see the work that is theirs. No more reconstructing status from memory, notebooks and group chats.
- Can I flag urgent orders so they stand out?
- Orders carry Rush and Priority flags, and you can filter by them so the most urgent gowns stay visible at the top of your day rather than buried in the list.
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Always know exactly which gown is where.
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