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Meraki Textiles

Buyer orders and export documents on one system.

Client
Meraki Textiles (placeholder client)
Industry
Textile & Apparel
Year
2025
Services
Custom Software, Web Applications, UI/UX Design

Overview

A Faisalabad home-textile exporter tracked buyer orders across WhatsApp, email and a shared drive. We built the order-to-shipment system that replaced all three.

Technology

  • Next.js
  • TypeScript
  • Laravel
  • MySQL
  • AWS
  • REST APIs

01 — Challenge

Challenge

Orders from European and North American buyers moved through sampling, approval, production and export documentation with no single record. Merchandisers rebuilt the same status update for every buyer email, and a missed approval could push an entire shipment past its window.

02 — Strategy

Strategy

We mapped the order lifecycle with the merchandising team first — the sampling loop is where the real complexity sits, not production. Because the buyers themselves were a source of delay, we scoped a buyer-facing portal into the first release rather than treating it as phase two, and designed the whole system to work on a phone from the factory floor.

03 — Solution

Solution

One order record carrying sampling rounds, approvals, production lots and export documents, with a buyer portal for status and approvals and a floor view for lot progress. Export paperwork is generated from the order rather than retyped, and every approval is timestamped against the person who gave it.

What we built

The parts that carry the workload.

  • 01

    Order lifecycle tracking

    Enquiry, sampling, approval, production and shipment as one record, with the delivery window visible at every stage.

  • 02

    Sampling and approval rounds

    Each sample version, buyer comment and approval captured with a timestamp, ending disputes about what was signed off.

  • 03

    Buyer portal

    Buyers check status and approve samples themselves, which removed most of the daily status email traffic.

  • 04

    Production lot progress

    Cutting, stitching and packing progress updated from the floor on a phone, visible to merchandising in real time.

  • 05

    Export documentation

    Invoices, packing lists and shipping documents generated from the order record instead of rebuilt in a spreadsheet.

Screens

A look at the interface.

  • Order lifecycle board
  • Buyer approval portal
  • Floor progress capture

Results

What changed after launch.

Buyer status emails
−71%After the portal launch
Average sample approval cycle
9 → 4 days
Documents retyped by hand
0
Systems replaced
3WhatsApp, email and a shared drive

Figures shown are illustrative placeholders for this sample case study.

“They understood the sampling loop better than the software we had been sold before. Our merchandisers stopped spending their mornings writing status emails.”
Export ManagerMeraki Textiles (placeholder attribution)

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