Pricing The Work
What Each Alteration Should Cost
Alteration work is priced by the job, not by the garment, and that is where most shops lose money quietly. A saree fall and pico, a blouse taken in at the sides, a trouser hem, a sleeve shortened, a kurti let out, a zip replaced, a lehenga waist adjusted before a wedding — each takes a different amount of a tailor’s time, and each deserves its own rate. When the counter quotes from memory, the same job goes out at three different prices in one week, and the cheapest quote is the one the customer remembers next time.
Juvee lets you keep a rate for every kind of alteration you do, so the price comes off the list rather than out of the air. Whoever is at the counter quotes the same figure you would. Urgent work can carry its own rate, because a piece promised for tomorrow evening costs you the queue, not just the stitching.
The rate sits on the job card with the work itself, so the tailor sees what was promised and the bill matches what was quoted — no argument at collection. At the end of the month you can see which alterations you actually do most and what each one earned, which is usually the first time a shop discovers that the quick jobs it never bothered to price properly are half its volume. Our guide to building a tailoring rate card works through the numbers, and billing and invoicing covers how the quote becomes a GST bill.