Tailor Book: The Measurement Register That Fits in Your Pocket
Every tailoring shop has the register. It sits by the counter with a soft spine and a pen tied to it, and it holds years of chest, waist and sleeve lengths in handwriting only one person can read. It works, until the day a page tears, tea spills on it, or a customer of ten years walks in and you have to turn back through three registers to find him. Tailor Book is that register, moved onto your phone. It records each customer's measurements, prices the order, tracks the advance and the balance, and sends the invoice on WhatsApp. It is free, it needs no account, and it works with no internet at all. Measurements the way you already take them The app does not ask you to change how you work. You measure garment by garment, as you do now: kameez, shalwar, waistcoat, trouser, shirt, coat, sherwani. If you stitch something that is not on the list, add it, along with whatever fields it needs. Inches go in the way you say them out loud. Type 38, tap ½, and it reads 38½. Quarters...