Thobe tailoring software that knows the garment, not the SKU

A thobe is not a line item

Every off-the-shelf program offered to a tailoring shop was built for a store selling things that already exist: product, price, quantity, discount. That order of things does not describe your work at all. For you the customer is the measurement, the garment does not exist yet, fabric is cut from stock before it is sewn, and the price moves with the cut rather than with a barcode. Thobe tailoring software is software that speaks those words: customer, measurement, garment, stage, delivery.

The practical test is simple. If you find yourself typing «thobe» into a field labelled «product name» and pasting the measurements into a notes box, you are using retail software and working around it. This page is about the garment specifically: its measurements, the details of its cut, the fabric it consumes, and the sheet that goes down to the workshop with it.

A thobe's measurements, not «a size»

The measurement sheet is built on what a tailor actually measures, with a drawing of the garment in front of you so you write each number in its place rather than down a blind list: length, neck, shoulder, sleeve, chest, waist, hips, cuff, and the width and length of the cufflink band. Values in centimetres as you measure them, in Arabic numerals as you write them.

With them go the details of the cut that separate one thobe from another even at the same size: collar type and height, cufflink or button, how many pockets and where, the inner pocket, sleeve shape, the hem, and the stitching at the opening. All of it is saved to the customer as a template, so his next order is built from it with one tap instead of asking about every detail again.

When a customer's measurements change because he lost or gained weight, the change is recorded with its date on top of his history rather than in place of it — you can see what it was, what it became, and when.

The measurement sheet that goes with the garment

A workshop does not work off a screen; it works off a sheet pinned to the fabric. So Yaqa prints a measurement sheet per garment: customer name and order number, all the measurements, the details of the cut, the fabric and its metres, and the delivery date. Clearer than a hurried hand, with no chance of a 42 being read as a 47.

If the tailor works in another workshop or from home, you send him a link to the sheet on his phone — he opens it and prints it, or saves it as a PDF from the phone itself, with no account and no app to install. The link is short-lived and covers that one sheet only.

The fabric a garment consumes

Every garment is tied to a fabric from your stock, with its metres. You set how many metres it takes, and they come off the fabric balance when it is cut — not at the end of the month and not by estimate. So you know this thobe took 3.2 metres of a fabric at a known price per metre, and that is a real number to price against.

This is where something invisible in a notebook shows up: a cut that eats half a metre more than another, or a fabric that wastes more than you expected.

The garment's stages until it is handed over

A single garment moves through new, cutting, sewing, pressing, ready, delivered. And every garment in an order has its own stage — so an order of three thobes can have two in pressing and one not yet cut, which is what is actually true in the workshop rather than one status for the whole order.

A garment past its delivery date is flagged on the board, so you see it before the customer arrives asking. When it is ready the customer gets a WhatsApp message from your shop's own number, composed in your browser and sent from your phone — not from an intermediary number.

Built for the thobe alone, on purpose

We say this plainly because others do not: Yaqa does not claim to cover every kind of tailoring. It is built for the menswear thobe specifically, which is why its fields are thobe fields rather than generic boxes — the thobe type (Saudi and others), and ready template libraries for what customers actually ask about: the collar (Chinese, plain folded, pointed folded…), the placket (zip, plain, hidden…), the cuff, and the pocket in its shapes.

And if your shop has a cut of its own — one your customers know by name — it is saved as a custom template under your name and applied to future orders in one tap, instead of being explained to the tailor every time. A single order carries several thobes, each with its own fabric, metres and independent stage.

The invoice, and ZATCA

A tailoring invoice is not a retail receipt: it carries the number of garments, the fabric if it came from you, the labour, any discount, the deposit and the balance. It is built on the simplified tax invoice requirements from the start — VAT number, sequential numbering, the VAT breakdown, and a place for the QR code — on both plans and at no extra charge.

Does it work offline?

No. Yaqa is a web app and needs a connection to save; there is no mode that writes to the device and uploads later, and we say so plainly rather than make a promise that breaks the first time you rely on it. What the workshop needs stays in its hands, though: the measurement sheet, the invoice and the receipt are printed, and mobile data is enough to open a page and save a measurement.

How do I move the measurement book across?

A paper notebook does not transfer in one sitting, and it does not deserve to. Your genuinely active customers are far fewer than the names in it:

• Have a spreadsheet or an older program? Export it and import in one pass — the system shows which rows have a problem before it saves anything.
• Paper only? Enter each customer as he returns. After three months every real customer is in the system, and the rest are names that never came back.
• Measurements incomplete? Enter what you have and leave the rest blank. A half-filled sheet beats a sheet that does not exist, and it completes itself on the next visit.

What does it cost?

Two annual plans in Saudi riyals, with no cap on garments and no cap on customers. The trial is free and needs no card: enter a real customer and his measurements and run a whole order from cutting to delivery before you pay. The numbers are on the pricing page, and the remaining questions on the FAQ.

Working alone, or running branches?

This page is about the garment. If you work on your own with no staff, start from menswear tailor software; if you have more than one branch and need per-branch stock, permissions and consolidated reports, start from tailoring management system.