How do I record a new customer’s measurements?

A customer’s measurements are a tailor’s real capital: a customer whose measurements you hold comes back to you even if your price is a little higher.

Steps

1. Open Tailoring → Customer measurements and search for the customer, or open their file — Figure 1.
2. Press New measurement — Figure 2.
3. Choose the measurement type (dishdasha, shirt, trousers…) and only that type’s fields appear.
4. Write a label that distinguishes it, such as “summer dishdasha measurement”; one customer can have several.
5. Fill the measurements field by field, in the order you normally work.
6. Put the customer’s preferences in the notes — the most important field on the page.
7. Save. The measurement is then ready to attach to a line on any future invoice.

Notes

• Do not register the same customer twice under differently written names; their measurements split across two files and lose their value.
• A clear label saves a lot of time at order taking; “measurement 1” and “measurement 2” mean nothing six months later.
• The customer’s notes are worth more than the numbers themselves; they are what prevents a remake.
• Check the measurement with the customer before saving; a minute now saves a length of cloth later.