The factory operating system

One thread, from the first metre of fabric to the last box out.

Primer runs your whole apparel factory on a single live system — purchasing, fabric, cutting, production, dispatch and labour, all held on one thread.

Built with real factories · since 2015Jaipur, India
The problem

Right now your factory runs on memory, paper and a dozen WhatsApp groups.

The day's numbers only add up the next morning. Costing is a guess. Every report is typed twice, with mistakes. The thread keeps snapping.

How Primer works

It all hangs on one thread.

Every stage of the floor is a node on the same thread — enter it once at the source, and it flows to every report on its own.

01 · Purchase

It starts with a PO.

Raise purchase orders to your mills and traders — rates, delivery dates and status, all tracked.

Purchase OrdersSuppliers
02 · Fabric

Cloth comes in, to the metre.

Log received fabric against its PO, by lot — greige or finished — with a live stock ledger behind it.

Fabric InwardStockLedger
03 · Cutting

Rolls become cut parts.

Plan batches and issue fabric — and pattern averages tell you the exact cloth a design eats before you cut.

Cutting BatchesPattern Averages
04 · Production

Parts become garments.

Set targets, send job challans to workers and process houses, and track every design's stage to the piece.

TargetsJob ChallansProcess House
05 · Dispatch

Packed, billed, out the door.

Generate challans and bills, ship oldest-first with FIFO, and lock exactly what left — on record.

DispatchFIFOBills
Everything the floor runs on

33 modules. One login.

Pick a stage to see what's inside — no feature you'll never use, nothing missing that the floor needs.

Purchase Orders

Raise and track POs to mills and traders — rates, dates, status.

Fabric Inward

Log received cloth against its PO, by lot — greige or finished.

Fabric Stock

Live stock by design, lot and location, down to the metre.

Stock Ledger

Every movement recorded — a full audit trail behind the numbers.

Goods Return

Return short or defective fabric with credit tracked against the PO.

Supplier Network

Every supplier's rates, terms and delivery history in one place.

Cutting Batches

Plan batches, issue fabric to the table, record what came off.

Pattern Averages

Exactly how much cloth each pattern eats, per width — costing that holds.

Unstitched Stock

Track cut bundles waiting on the line, by design and size ratio.

Cutting Issue

Issue and reconcile fabric to cutting, tightly tied to stock.

Cutting Receive

Reconcile cut pieces received back from the table, batch by batch.

Bundle QR

Barcode or QR every bundle for accurate, floor-level tracking.

Production Targets

Set daily targets by line and design; watch actuals land.

Job Challans

Send work to job workers and process houses; reconcile on return.

Pending Works

Every open task on the floor, per person, in one queue.

Process House

Track dyeing and finishing sent out and received back.

Production Summary

One live view of every design's stage and quantity.

Daily Ops

Log the day's floor activity, hand-offs and updates in one feed.

Dispatch Challans

Generate challans and bills — nothing leaves without a paper trail.

FIFO Watchlist

Ship the oldest stock first — flagged before it ages.

Quick Dispatch

Scan and ship in seconds on high-volume days.

Dispatch Bills

Billing tied to exactly what left the building.

Confirmations

Confirm and lock what shipped, with an edit log behind it.

Barcode Labels

Print TSPL labels and packing lists in a click.

Labour & Payroll

Job cards, rates, advances and settlements — clean payouts.

P&L & Recon

Live profitability and marketplace settlement matching.

Approvals & Audit

Sensitive changes go through approval; every action logged.

Dashboard

Live KPIs and daily email reports — numbers without the chase.

Roles & Access

Owner, manager, accounts, supervisor, labour — each their slice.

Chat & Documents

In-app chat and a vault for POs, invoices and specs.

Plus Excel, Google Sheets sync, camera capture, alerts, reconciliation and more.

The difference

Registers & WhatsApp, or one live system?

Without Primer

  • Fabric, cutting and dispatch live in registers and three WhatsApp groups.
  • The day's numbers only add up the next morning — if at all.
  • Costing is a guess; nobody knows the fabric a design really eats.
  • Labour payouts take days of back-and-forth and arguing.
  • Every report is re-typed by hand, twice, with mistakes.

With Primer

  • Every stage on one live thread — floor to office, desk to phone.
  • Today's orders, production and stock, updated as work happens.
  • Pattern averages give exact fabric costing before you cut a roll.
  • Job cards and rates turn payouts into a few clicks.
  • Enter once at the source; every report writes itself.
Who it's for

Made for the way factories work.

Primer starts on the cutting table — where garment businesses win or lose their margin.

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Garment manufacturers

Cutting, stitching and finishing on one live floor.

CuttingProductionLabour
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Apparel exporters

Order-to-dispatch traceability, buyer POs and lot control.

FabricDispatchP&L
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D2C with own production

Make in-house and sell across marketplaces, one system.

ProductionRecon
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Job workers & units

Job challans in and out, rates and settlements tracked.

ChallansPayroll
Voices from the floor

Factories that stopped chasing numbers.

★★★★★

"We ran everything on registers and three WhatsApp groups. Now cutting, production and dispatch sit in one place — and the day's numbers are there by evening, not the next morning."

R
Ramesh
Production Head · Jaipur
★★★★★

"Pattern averages alone changed our costing. We finally know exactly how much fabric a design takes before we cut a single roll."

P
Prakash
Owner · Surat
★★★★★

"Labour payouts used to take two days and a lot of arguing. Job cards and rates in Primer turned it into a few clicks."

R
Ronak
Accounts · Bhilwara
Questions, answered

Everything you're wondering.

Do we have to change how our factory works?
No. Primer is built around the way apparel factories already run — fabric, cutting, production, dispatch, labour. You keep your process; Primer just puts it on one system.
Can my team use it on their phones?
Yes. Owners, managers and supervisors see live orders, production and stock from any phone or desktop — nothing to install.
How long does it take to get started?
Most factories are up quickly. We set up your designs, sizes and users, walk your team through it, and support you hands-on through the switch.
Is our data safe and private?
Your data is yours alone, on a secured server with role-based access — each role sees only its slice, and every change is logged.
Do you build custom features for us?
Yes. Alongside the core ERP we build custom software — integrations, marketplace connectors, portals and automations — shaped to how your business runs.
What does it cost?
Pricing depends on your factory's size and modules. Leave your number below and we'll call you back with a plan that fits.
See it on your floor

Get a call back from our team.

Leave your name and number — we'll call you back to walk through Primer with your kind of orders, fabric and dispatch. Custom software builds too.

Prefer email? Write to sales@primererp.com