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What Is Paperwork Costing Your Tailoring Shop?

Move four sliders to match your shop and see the hours. No email, no sign-up, and the working is shown so you can argue with it.

Move the sliders to match your shop. We only count two everyday jobs — writing bills and digging out a repeat customer’s old measurements.

Doing it by hand today 32 hrs
The same work on Juvee 5 hrs
27 hours
back in your pocket every month — that’s 3 working days
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Based on Juvee’s own published figures: a GST invoice in under 2 minutes and any customer’s measurements in under 5 seconds. Your own numbers do the rest.

Read the working

What This Is Counting — and What It Is Not

It counts two jobs. Writing a bill, and digging out a returning customer’s old measurements. That is all.

The two figures on our side are ones we already publish: a GST invoice in under two minutes, and any customer’s measurements found in under five seconds. You should read those as our claims rather than as neutral facts, which is why the tool shows them rather than hiding them in the sum. Every other number in the arithmetic is one you set yourself.

What it deliberately leaves out is most of the day:

  • Chasing balances on delivered orders, and the ones nobody remembers to chase.
  • Working out what each karigar is owed at the end of the month.
  • Counting cloth, and buying again what is already on a shelf.
  • Answering “is it ready?” by walking to the workshop and back.
  • Re-measuring somebody because last year’s numbers cannot be found or trusted.

So the number the calculator gives you is a floor, not a total. We left those out on purpose — every one of them would need a guess about your shop, and a guessed number is worth less than an honest small one.

The honest reading

What the Number Actually Means

It is not money. We could have multiplied it by an hourly rate and shown a rupee figure, and it would have looked more impressive and meant less — we would have had to guess your rates, your rent and what your own hour is worth.

Hours are the honest unit, and you already know what an hour is worth in your shop. Multiply it yourself.

It is also not time you get back in a block. Nobody hands you three free days. It comes back in the four minutes you were not writing a bill by hand while two customers waited, and in the evening you did not spend going through a diary looking for a blouse measurement from March. Those minutes are the ones that decide whether the counter feels calm or frantic in the fortnight before a wedding season.

And the shape of the answer matters more than the size. If the number barely moves when you raise the orders slider, your shop is not being slowed by volume. If it climbs steeply, it is.

Costs nothing

Three Ways to Cut That Number Without Buying Anything

Software is one answer and it is not the first one. If the number above is uncomfortable, these three cost nothing and most shops have not done them.

Print a rate card and put it on the wall. A large part of the time a bill takes is deciding what to charge while the customer watches. A written rate ends that conversation before it starts, and it also stops the quiet discounting that happens when a price is decided in front of somebody. The rate card guide works through how to set one.

Number every order, and write the number on the customer’s slip. Most of the searching in a tailoring shop is not for measurements at all — it is for which order this person is asking about. A number on both halves turns that into one question.

Write the date beside every measurement. Undated numbers get re-taken because nobody trusts them, and that re-measuring is invisible time. A date makes an old record either usable or obviously not, and both are better than a guess. The technique is in how to take measurements for stitching.

Do those three first. Then run this calculator again with your new bill time, and see whether what is left is worth paying to fix.

One Complete System

If You Do Want to Fix the Rest

Juvee tailoring software covers the jobs this calculator leaves out too — billing with advance and balance, order tracking, karigar pay, fabric stock and measurement records. The pricing page lists every plan; the Basic plan is free permanently for 10 customers and 20 orders a month.

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

That is the number the calculator asks you for rather than telling you, because it varies enormously. A handwritten bill with a GST breakdown takes most shops between five and twelve minutes; a shop with a printed rate card and a pad takes less. Time yourself on the next three bills and use the real figure.
Two jobs only: writing bills, and finding a returning customer’s old measurements. It ignores everything else a shop does, which is why the answer is a floor rather than a total.
Two published claims: a GST invoice in under two minutes, and any customer’s measurements retrieved in under five seconds. Both are stated on the billing and measurement pages. Every other number in the sum is one you moved a slider to.
Yes, and that is the point of the last section. Three of the changes that cut this number cost nothing: a printed rate card, a numbered order book, and writing the date beside every measurement.
Because we would have to guess your rates, your rent and what your own hour is worth, and a guessed rupee figure is worth less than an honest hour figure. Multiply the hours by what an hour is worth to you.