#line sheets

What Are the Main Types of Sales Materials?

Nothing sells your product better than putting your item into the hands of a store buyer!  But in this world of busy people, and the cost of samples, using written sales materials is still a must. So what are the main types of sales materials you can use to sell your products?

When you are getting ready to sell your products wholesale, what do you need? An order form, wholesale agreement, line…

Using Line Sheet Order Forms

The best marketing tools you can use in your wholesale business are your sales materials such as line sheets, catalogs, and order forms.  I frequently used Line Sheet Order Forms which are a hybrid of all three marketing pieces.

What is a line sheet and how does it differ from a catalog or order form?

First, let’s define the different marketing materials:

Line sheetsare a listing of your…

So we are finally coming to the end of this semester at uni so everything is due all at once. This is my final assignment for my Fashion Concepts class, we had to come up with a final digital collection based on a mood board we did earlier in the semester.

I took my prints from 2 images from my mood board (my mood board is the first slide). On my mood board i have part of an image of a rug which I absolutely love and so I took that image, and used part of it in my first textile. I call it the tapestry print and I basically just resized, copied and flipped the one image into different designs and patterns for this print. I did this in the navy and blush colourways. I don't love the blush/pink colourway but it was working with what i was doing so I went with it.

The second print is what I call the Seaweed print. I was messing around practicing drawing hair one day and part of it looked a bit like seaweed, so i played around with it in photoshop - resized it, repeated it and just generally made some happy mistakes that worked well so i put this in 4 colourways and used this as my second print.

My inspiration was Homer's Odyssey so i was looking at sea creatures and sea journeys and lots of oceanic references. I found the image of the giant pink octopus and fell in love so I wanted my silhouette to emulate that because they move so beautifully. All my skirts scoop up at the front and travel down at the back to create a fish tail with lots of fabric. I wanted the hemline to move somewhat like a jellyfishy's tentacles would move through the water.

With regards to trims I've used rope with tassels and wooden beads for the belts. Some of the skirts have a slight fringing detail and if i was actually going to put this collection into production I would look at finding some cool wooden buttons.

So anyways, enough waffling; here it is and beware: I went a bit nuts with the prints because I was totally digging seeing them in my designs - I think if I had my time again I'd probably put a few more block coloured pieces in there too, just to break up the patterns.

We are very excited to bring you this new feature update. Stitch will now enable you to customize your outgoing messages for orders, invoices, and packing slips. Prior to this update, there was a standard message automatically included that you could update each time you sent an email through Stitch, but now, you can set the default message of your choice. The message you create will be included in every message you send. Don't worry, you can edit the message on the fly if you'd like.

To set the messages, select Admin > Orders, Invoices & Packing Slips

Scroll to near the bottom of the page and you'll see the fields where you can enter your customized messages. Be sure to save your changes.

Next time you need to send an order, invoice or packing slip through Stitch, your message will automatically be included. You can still make edits as you wish.

We're sure this new feature will continue to help you save time and sell more. It has been a highly requested feature and we will continue to roll these out as we prepare for Stitch 2.0 in the near future. We've got more big news just around the corner. Stay tuned, and keep Stitchin'. Let us know what you think by leaving a comment below.

Also, be sure to check out more of our recent feature updates.

This week we have three updates to share. The first of which will help get even more accurate inventory management. The three feature updates are:

1. Re-open completed orders - Prior to this update, completed orders in Stitch were locked in time and users were unable to edit them.

2. Add option types to invoices and packing slips - This will make it easier for customers to see the option types corresponding to the options associated with products. Wow, that sounds confusing. Don't worry, the images below will help.

3. Email address now included in company information - There's a new field for Stitch customers to add their email address to invoices and packing slips.

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Re-open completed orders - This is a major update! As Stitch users know, inventory is only removed from stock when an order is marked complete; and once an order is marked complete, it's locked from editing. Prior to marking an order complete in Stitch, it's in "committed to order" status and the stock level (inventory count that is actually on your shelf) isn't reduced. This becomes a major challenge when people are trying to get an accurate stock count, especially when there is a customer that has net 15, 30 or 60 day terms. As of today, Stitch customers can mark an order complete, which will draw down stock quantities appropriately, but also re-open the order if the order needs further editing. This will also help if a mistake made somewhere along the line.

  Add option types to invoices and packing slips - Based on the product family structure in Stitch, customers use option types like size, color, material, shape, design, etc. to describe their products. Then they tie the actual options like large, medium and small to those option types. Prior to this update, only the actual options (eg. large, medium and small) were viewable on invoices and packing slips. This is still the default setting. But now Stitch users can turn on a setting in the admin area allowing customers to see what the option type actually is. This setting is especially useful when a user has products that have several different color combinations.

Email address added to company information - Finally, this feature update is a minor one, but it's a necessary change. Now, you can include your email address in your company information and it will be automatically added to invoices and packing slips. The email field didn't exist before. Here's where you can add yours:

  That's it for this week. Please feel free to let us know what you think about the feature updates by leaving a comment below. Also, connect with us on Twitter and/or Facebook. We love to hear what you're all up to out there.

Stitch on!