The factory then cuts more than you sold, invoices you before anything ships, and the real cost per piece is only known once the grade-outs are counted. Ordamo holds the window's orders while the run is in production and puts the run's actual cost back onto the pieces it produced.
A deposit now, the balance later
Half at pre-order, which is what pays the factory. In between you are holding other people's money and owe them a garment.
Weeks between the sale and the delivery
Nine weeks between the sale and the parcel, in which every customer who paid is entitled to ask where it is.
A price agreed before the cost is known
You price the drop off a sample. The factory invoices for what it cut, and the freight lands a month after that.
An order that started in a chat
Half the window is a form or a DM — a size, a colour, a screenshot of a transfer — rather than a checkout that took the money.
A pre-order window on a five-style capsule. Nine weeks from the window closing to the first parcel going out. 84 pieces sold in the window, at $180 each. The figures are invented; the shape is not.
Money in — $15,120 agreed
Money out — quoted at $6,552
The quote implied $8,568 (56.7%). The invoices left $6,718 (44.4%) — $1,850 less than the job was priced to earn. The costing was per unit sold; the invoice was per unit cut, and freight and duty were never in the sheet at all.
The factory cut 96 to deliver 84. What did a piece really cost?
Record the run as a batch, with the factory invoice, the trims and the freight against it, and the total is split across the pieces the run actually produced — so the units you paid for and did not sell are already inside the per-piece figure instead of sitting in a line you forget. That figure is written onto the products and onto open orders still carrying the sample costing.
Can I see which style paid and which one only looked like it did?
Margin is per order and per product, not per drop. Once the run has reported its real cost back, a style that sold well at a price that never covered the cut shows the margin it actually earned, beside one that sold fewer and earned more.
Is a pre-order the same as made-to-order, as far as tracking goes?
The money behaves the same way and the stock does not. A pre-order needs a deposit, a balance and a ready date, exactly like a commission. What it does not need is a stock count, because there is nothing on the shelf until the run lands.
Named plainly, so you find out here rather than in week two.
No size and colour stock ledger
Variants carry prices and costs, not a running count per size. Ordamo is not where you find out how many mediums are left.
No storefront sync
A Shopify, Etsy or WooCommerce export imports as orders and maps its own columns. Nothing updates by itself afterwards.
Nothing charges the balance for you
The balance shows as owed on the customer's page with your payment details on it. No card is stored and nothing is charged on despatch day.
Built for orders that take weeks to deliver, start in a message and get paid in parts.
Add a customer and their order
Deposit taken, balance still owed, and the date you promised.
Send your customer their order page
One link that updates itself, instead of twenty messages.
Record what the batch cost
What a run really cost, over the pieces it produced. One button puts that on the products it made.
See what you actually made
Revenue, cost and margin per order. Money in, money out, cash on hand.
Not quite your work?
Ordamo is built by Marat and Nikolai in Buenos Aires, who run their own made-to-order furniture brand on it every day. If something here is wrong about your trade, write to marat@ordamo.app and it gets fixed.
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