Boutique Bookkeeping & POS for Tailoring AI bookkeeping for Indian boutiques: variant inventory, POS, tailoring job-cards, GST reports & reconciliation. Free to start—book a demo today.
HelloBooks.ai is garment boutique accounting software and bookkeeping software for designer boutiques, bridal and couture studios, saree and lehenga houses, ethnic-wear showrooms, kidswear stores, multi-brand fashion retailers and custom tailoring units. Garment retail is the cruellest inventory category in accounting because a single design is not a SKU — it is a matrix of sizes (XS / S / M / L / XL / XXL or 38 / 40 / 42 / 44 in Indian fits) multiplied by colours and sometimes fabric variants. A boutique with 300 design styles can carry 5,000+ SKU variants, and most accounting tools collapse them back to the parent style and lose the variant-level signal that drives reorder decisions. HelloBooks treats every size × colour × style combination as a first-class variant: variant-level stock, per-variant reorder triggers, supplier order history and lead-time tracking, and stock-out alerts when a variant runs dry even if the parent style still shows healthy stock — the difference between a sale made and a sale lost.
A boutique is also rarely pure resale — it usually runs a parallel custom-tailoring operation that needs measurement profiles, fabric bill of materials, karigar (master tailor) job-cards by stage (cutting, stitching, embroidery, finishing) and live margin computation as material and labour costs land against the quoted price. HelloBooks handles both lanes in the same set of books: showroom POS rings up readymade and tailoring services on a single bill, captures customer measurements once and auto-loads them on the next order, defines fabric / lining / embroidery / hardware BOM per custom order, and routes each garment through a Measure → Cut → Stitch → Trial → Deliver tailoring queue with karigar productivity tracking. For Indian boutiques, GST is split correctly across slabs — apparel below Rs. 1,000 at 5%, apparel at Rs. 1,000 and above at 12%, ready-made textiles, lehengas and bridal couture all tagged with the right HSN, and tailoring service revenue at 5% under SAC 9988 — with GSTR-1 returns auto-built from POS counter sales, B2B trade invoices and aggregator orders. TDS u/s 194Q on bulk fabric purchases, TCS u/s 206C(1H) where applicable and e-invoicing thresholds are all wired in. For US boutiques, the platform handles state sales tax on clothing (with the exemption thresholds in Massachusetts, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Minnesota and Vermont), 1099-NEC for contractor seamstresses and Plaid bank-feed reconciliation.
Beyond compliance, HelloBooks gives boutique owners the merchandising and margin layer they actually run on: bestseller and slow-mover analysis by season, dead-stock provisioning for end-of-season writedowns, COGS comparison at landed-cost vs MRP, karigar productivity and per-stage cost tracking, alteration-vs-fresh-stitch margin analysis (alterations leak more margin than most boutique owners realize), channel mix across showroom counter, WhatsApp / Instagram order capture, exhibition and pop-up sales, and online marketplace channels like Myntra, Ajio, Flipkart and Amazon Fashion with per-channel commission and return-rate reconciliation. Loyalty points, tier-based discount redemption, WhatsApp digital invoices, trial reminders and bridal-trousseau pre-booking pipelines for wedding season turn a boutique from a single-transaction shop into a relationship business. That is what makes HelloBooks the best bookkeeping software for garment boutiques and designer studios — generic accounting software collapses variants and ignores tailoring; HelloBooks ties every size, every colour, every karigar hour and every fabric metre to a margin line, so the books match what the boutique owner already sees on the shop floor.
Built for Boutiques That
Both Sell and Stitch
Variant-level readymade stock, custom tailoring with measurements and karigar job-cards, mixed-bill showroom POS, loyalty and GST — designed for the realities of an Indian boutique.
Built for Boutique Owners
From a single designer boutique to a multi-outlet bridal house with a central tailoring workshop.
Designer Boutiques
Bridal & Couture Studios
Saree & Lehenga Houses
Tailoring & Alterations Shops
Multi-Outlet Apparel Brands
Showroom + Tailoring — Both, Live, On One Screen
Run a boutique that sells readymade and stitches custom — without juggling four notebooks. Track size/color stock matrix, karigar workload, tailoring queue, and trial schedule from one operations view.
- Size × Color stock matrix at a glance
- Karigar workload and capacity per day
- Tailoring queue: Measure → Cut → Stitch → Trial → Deliver
- Stock-out alerts at variant level (not just SKU)
Measurements, Fabric BOM, Karigar Job-Cards
Capture customer measurements once and reuse forever. Define fabric and material BOM per order, assign karigars by stage (cutting, stitching, embroidery, finishing), and watch margin compute live as costs land.
- Customer measurement profile, auto-loaded next time
- Fabric, lining, embroidery, hardware BOM per order
- Stage-wise karigar job-cards with rates
- Live margin: material + labour vs. quoted price
Variant POS · WhatsApp Invoice · Loyalty in One Bill
Bill readymade and tailoring in the same invoice. Quick variant picker (size + color in 2 taps), GST, loyalty discount, WhatsApp digital invoice — and the next alteration trial scheduled automatically.
- Barcode + variant quick-pick
- Mixed bill: readymade + tailoring services
- Loyalty points, redemption and tier display
- WhatsApp invoice and trial reminders
Size, Color and Style — All Tracked Properly
Stop losing track of which sizes are stocked-out across colors. Variant-level inventory, low-stock alerts per variant, and supplier reorder suggestions based on actual movement — not guesswork.
- Variant-level (size × color × style) stock
- Per-variant reorder triggers
- Supplier order history and lead time
- Season-end clearance dashboard
Bestsellers, Slow Movers, Karigar Productivity
Know which designs sell, which sit, which karigar is your top earner, and where alterations leak margin. Built for boutique owners who think in pieces, fabrics and trials — not just SKUs.
- Bestseller and slow-mover by season
- Karigar productivity and per-stage cost
- Alteration vs. fresh-stitch margin
- GST returns built from POS + tailoring + B2B
Boutique-Specific Controls
Built around how Indian boutiques actually run — variant stock, karigar networks, mixed billing, festival cycles.
Get Started in Minutes
Configure once, then run showroom and tailoring from one place.
Set up your boutique workspace and apply the Boutique & Tailoring configuration.
Import your readymade catalogue with size/color variants — or pull from Tally / Excel.
Add karigars, stage-wise rates, fabric suppliers and customer measurement template.
Start billing showroom + custom orders from day one.
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Replace your size-color register, your karigar diary, your billing book and your accountant's Tally with one platform built for the Indian boutique.