Textile & apparel software, built around your business
Yukti AI builds a custom system for your textile or garment business — a design catalogue with visual search, size and colour-wise stock, job-work and process tracking for dyeing, printing, embroidery and stitching, a party-wise ledger, GST billing and a WhatsApp order bot. Ready-made textile packages give you fixed modules. We build around how you actually work — with AI watching your stock, your ageing designs and your orders.
Textile and apparel software is one system that runs a textile or garment business — a design catalogue with visual search, size and colour-wise stock across greige and finished goods, job-work and process tracking for dyeing, printing, embroidery and stitching, a party-wise ledger, GST billing and a WhatsApp order bot. Yukti AI builds it custom around your position in the chain — weaver, processor, wholesaler, agent or garment brand — with an AI layer that watches stock, ageing designs and parties who are slipping. Live in weeks, one-time build with 12 months of support.
The trade runs on thousands of designs and a lot of WhatsApp.
Thousands of designs across folders and chats, the same set sent to every party, prices retyped each time. Finding "something like this one" means scrolling for an hour.
Greige in one register, finished in another, stock by design, size and colour that no one can see in real time. Job work out for dyeing or printing and half-tracked.
Party-wise outstanding, agent commission and lot/thaan tracking spread across books and Excel, with orders taken over WhatsApp and re-entered by hand.
How a textile & apparel business actually runs
Surat is the centre of India's man-made fabric industry, and the trade here is not one business — it is a chain of them, each with its own way of working:
- Weavers and knitters produce greige (unfinished) fabric by quality and construction, tracked in metres and thaans.
- Processors take greige in for dyeing, printing, embroidery and finishing — job work, where fabric physically leaves the building and has to come back, matched lot for lot.
- Traders and wholesalers hold finished stock by design, colour and size, sell to retailers through agents, and run on party-wise credit.
- Agents carry catalogues, book orders and earn commission per party and per design.
- Apparel brands and garment units manage a style master, size ratios, cutting and stitching job work, and sell across their own store and marketplaces.
What ties all of them together is that the business is design-driven — a trader might hold thousands of designs, each in several colourways — and order-taking happens on WhatsApp. A buyer sends a photo: "do you have this, or something like it, in these colours". The person who can answer that fastest wins the order.
A textile system has two jobs a generic ERP never does well: find a design by its picture across a huge library, and track fabric that is out for job work without losing a metre. Everything else — stock, ledger, billing — is table stakes.
Why ready-made textile ERP falls short
Packages like Marg, BUSY or a generic garment ERP will give you a stock module, a billing module and a ledger. They are built for a standard trading flow and they charge per user, per year. Where they struggle:
- Designs are just codes. There is no way to search "find me designs like this one" — and in a design-led trade, that is the single most common question.
- Job work is bolted on. Issuing a lot for dyeing, tracking what is with which processor, and reconciling shrinkage on return is either missing or generic.
- The catalogue lives outside. The WhatsApp catalogue every trader actually sells from is maintained by hand, in a separate app, and goes stale.
- No AI. Ageing designs, slow-moving colours, parties who have stopped ordering — the package holds the data but never tells you.
- You adapt to it. A processor, a trader and a brand have very different processes; a fixed package makes all three work its way.
What a custom textile system needs to do
Built around your position in the chain, a custom system covers:
- A design master with visual similarity search over the whole library, colourway sheets and design-code reading
- Stock by design, colour and size — greige, finished and lot-wise — moving on every purchase, production, job-work issue/return, sale and return
- Job-work and process tracking matched to your actual processes (dyeing, printing, embroidery, stitching), with lot reconciliation
- A party-wise ledger, agent-wise commission, and GST billing generated from orders
- A WhatsApp catalogue and an AI order bot working off the same design master
- An AI layer that watches ageing designs, slow lots, stock and outstanding, and prompts follow-ups
Everything a textile or apparel business needs.
We build only the parts you need — but designs, stock, job work, orders, ledger and billing all live in one system.
Catalogue + visual search
One design master; find similar designs by image; handle colourway sheets and design codes; generate a client catalogue and send it on WhatsApp.
Size & colour-wise inventory
Greige and finished-goods stock by design, size and colour, moving itself on every purchase, production, sale and return — with reorder alerts.
Job work & process tracking
Issue lots for dyeing, printing, embroidery or stitching, track what's out and back with each job worker, and see every lot's stage.
Order & dispatch
Take orders on WhatsApp or web, convert to a challan and invoice, and track to dispatch — with lot / thaan / piece detail.
Party ledger & agent commission
Party-wise outstanding in one screen, agent-wise commission calculated automatically, GST invoices generated from orders.
AI layer
A daily briefing on sales, stock and outstanding; alerts on ageing designs and slow lots; and automatic follow-ups to parties.
Everything the textile packages do — and visual search on top.
Textile and garment ERP packages give you fixed modules and charge per user. Here's what they offer — and what we add.
How AI helps a textile business specifically
"AI" in a textile system is not a chatbot — it is analysis of the two things a textile trader worries about most: which designs are making money, and which parties are slipping.
- Visual search & matching — a buyer sends a photo; the system returns the closest designs you actually hold, in stock, with prices. This is AI doing the salesperson's fastest trick, instantly.
- Ageing-design alerts — designs and colourways that have not moved in N days, with the capital tied up in them, so you discount or clear before it becomes dead stock.
- Party drift detection — a regular buyer whose order frequency or value has dropped, flagged for a call before they are gone.
- Slow-lot & job-work alerts — a lot out with a processor longer than usual, or a shrinkage pattern worth questioning.
- Daily briefing — sales, top and bottom designs, outstanding by party, and lots due back — the state of the business each morning.
- Plain-language questions — "which designs sold best in Rajasthan last month", "how much fabric is out for printing", "which parties are over their credit limit".
What each person works with.
Owner
The daily briefing, design and party performance, outstanding, and overall stock and job-work position.
Sales / agent
The catalogue, visual search, order booking, their parties and commission — usable from a phone on the road.
Stock / godown
Stock in and out by design, colour and size; lot issue and return; reorder alerts.
Job-work coordinator
Lots issued to each processor, what is due back, and reconciliation on return.
Accounts
Party ledger, GST invoices from orders, agent commission, and payment tracking.
Design
The design master — codes, colourways, images — kept clean so search and the catalogue stay accurate.
Connected to what you already use
- WhatsApp Business API — catalogue sharing, an AI order bot, and order and payment updates
- Tally / accounting — push invoices and ledgers so your accountant keeps working the way they do
- Marketplaces — Amazon, Flipkart, Myntra and Meesho order ingestion and stock mapping, for apparel brands (the pattern from the Backdrop case study)
- Razorpay — payment links and reconciliation
- Shiprocket / courier — dispatch and tracking for brand and web orders
Textile systems we've built.
Textile design house — visual catalogue search
A catalogue and visual-similarity search over a design library in the tens of thousands — upload a design and find similar ones, with colourway-sheet and design-code handling.
Backdrop — apparel inventory
Stock by product, size and piece; retail-sale decrement; Amazon listing mapping. Refined across versions for speed.
AI Business Management System
The full picture — CRM, ERP, billing and WhatsApp in one custom platform, with AI built in.
Common questions.
Run your textile business
on one system?
Tell us how your business works today — designs, stock, job work, parties. We'll show you what one system would replace, with visual search on top.