Solution · Production
See Exactly Which Stage Every Gown Is At
When you cannot say, off the top of your head, whether a gown is being cut, sewn, fitted or finished, the atelier is running on memory. Bomble turns that memory into a pipeline the whole floor can read.
Updated 19 June 2026
The short answer
The hidden cost of an atelier is not the work itself — it is not knowing where the work is. A gown waiting on a fitting looks the same as a gown waiting on a button until a client calls and you cannot answer. Bomble fixes this with custom production pipelines: you define your real stages in order, each with its own team, colour, QC and rules, then move every order through them on a board that shows the entire floor at a glance. Each order carries its own stage status, so "where is it?" stops being a question you walk across the room to answer.
The problem: nobody can say where a gown is
Ask three people in a busy atelier where a particular order stands and you will often get three answers. The work is real and the hands are skilled — but the status lives in heads, sticky notes and half-remembered conversations. A garment that stalled waiting on a fitting is indistinguishable from one that stalled waiting on trim, because nothing records the difference.
That gap is expensive in a quiet, compounding way. A piece sits a week longer than it should because the next pair of hands never knew it was ready. A client phones for an update and the answer is a guess. Two people work the same gown while another waits untouched. None of it shows up as a line item — it shows up as missed deadlines, awkward calls and rush nights you did not plan for.
- Status lives in memory, not in a record the whole team can read.
- A stalled gown gives no signal — you only notice when a deadline is already at risk.
- Handoffs depend on someone remembering to say "this is ready for you".
- Client update calls become guesswork because no one owns the current state.
The fix: a pipeline shaped like your atelier
Bomble lets you build custom production pipelines with ordered stages that match how your house actually works — not a generic template. You name each stage and set its position, so cutting comes before sewing comes before fitting comes before finishing, exactly as you do it.
Each stage carries its own configuration. You assign a responsible team, give it a colour so the board reads at a glance, mark it requires-QC with a pass/fail gate, make it optional or skippable for orders that do not need it, require a photo before it can be completed, and choose whether finishing that stage notifies the client automatically. The pipeline stops being a label and becomes the rules of the floor.
- Ordered stages you define and reorder by position to mirror your real process.
- Per-stage responsible team, so everyone knows whose stage it is.
- A colour per stage so the board is readable in a glance.
- Requires-QC stages with a pass/fail check before a gown moves on.
- Optional/skippable stages for orders that do not need every step.
- Photo-required stages that hold the work until proof is attached.
The board: the whole floor in one view
Once the pipeline exists, the pipeline board groups every order by the stage it is in. You move orders through stages as the work progresses, and the board redraws itself, so the question "what is in cutting right now, and what is waiting on finishing?" is answered the moment you look.
Underneath the board, each order carries its own per-order stage status — Not started, In progress or Done — so you can see not just which stage a gown is in but how far through that stage it actually is. The dashboard reinforces this with a pipeline visualisation and attention items, and you can filter and sort orders by stage, team or collection when you need to drill in rather than scan.
- Pipeline board with orders grouped by stage — the whole floor at once.
- Per-order stage status: Not started / In progress / Done.
- Filter and sort by stage, team, collection, deadline or flags.
- Dashboard pipeline visualisation and attention items for what needs you now.
What it changes day to day
When status is shared rather than remembered, the atelier stops leaking time at the handoffs. A finished stage that is set to notify the client sends the update without anyone drafting it. A QC gate catches the flaw before the gown moves forward, not after it is half-finished. And when a client calls, the answer is on the screen, not in someone’s head.
The Stage Bottlenecks report turns the same data into a question worth asking: which stage is consistently the slowest? Over a month you can see where work piles up and fix the process, not just the symptom.
- Handoffs happen because the board shows the work is ready, not because someone remembered.
- QC pass/fail gates stop flawed work from advancing.
- Client notifications fire on stage completion when configured, no drafting required.
- Stage Bottlenecks report shows your slowest stages so you can fix the process.
With Bomble
Everything your pipeline needs, built in
- Custom pipelines with ordered stages you name and position to match your house.
- Per-stage config: responsible team, colour, requires-QC pass/fail, optional/skippable, photo-required, notify-client-on-completion.
- Pipeline board grouping every order by stage for a whole-floor view.
- Per-order stage status — Not started, In progress, Done — on each order.
- Filter and sort orders by stage, team, collection, deadline, payment status and flags.
- Auto client notification on stage completion when a stage is set to notify.
- Stage Bottlenecks report (with date range and PDF export) to find your slowest steps.
Frequently asked questions
- Can I build a pipeline that matches my own process?
- Yes. You create custom pipelines with ordered stages you name and reorder by position, so the flow mirrors how your atelier actually works — cutting, sewing, fitting, finishing, or whatever your steps are.
- How do I see what stage every order is at?
- The pipeline board groups every order by its current stage, so you see the whole floor at once. Each order also carries its own stage status — Not started, In progress or Done — so you know how far through a stage it is.
- Can I add quality checks to a stage?
- Yes. Any stage can be marked requires-QC with a pass/fail gate, and you can require a photo before a stage is completed, so flawed or unproven work does not move forward.
- Does the client get told when a stage is finished?
- If you configure a stage to notify the client on completion, Bomble sends the update automatically — by email when Resend is configured, plus a WhatsApp deep link — using a stage-update template.
- Can different stages belong to different teams?
- Yes. Each stage has a responsible team, so the board shows whose stage each gown is in, and teams drive stage responsibility, order assignment and department reporting.
- How do I find which stage slows everything down?
- The Stage Bottlenecks report ranks your slowest stages over any date range and exports to PDF, so you can fix the process step that consistently piles up rather than guessing.
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