About FabTailor

Born from a lost shirt. Built for every tailor who deserves better tools.

It Started With a Missing Order

It was Diwali season, 2024. One of our founders walked into a well-known tailor shop in Hyderabad to pick up a custom suit he'd ordered three weeks earlier. The shop was buzzing — fabric rolls everywhere, workers stitching away, customers waiting in line. The owner flipped through a thick diary, ran his finger down columns of scribbled names, and after ten awkward minutes said: "Sir, I think your order is not ready. Maybe come back next week?"

Three weeks of waiting. No updates. No tracking. No communication. And the tailor genuinely couldn't tell whether the suit was half-done, fully stitched, or lost somewhere in the pile.

That night, over chai, the conversation turned into a question:"If we can track a ₹200 Swiggy order in real-time, why can't a ₹5,000 custom suit be tracked at all?"

We Went Deeper — And the Problem Was Bigger

As engineers, we couldn't let it go. Over the next few months, we visited over 40 tailor shops and boutiques across Hyderabad, Bangalore, and Mumbai. What we found was staggering:

• Paper diaries everywhere.Orders, measurements, customer details — all scribbled in notebooks that got misplaced, damaged, or simply couldn't be searched.
• Lost measurements. Tailors measuring the same customer again and again because the previous measurements were buried in an old register.
• No worker tracking. Shop owners had no idea which karigar was working on which order, or how many pieces were completed.
• Payment chaos.Advances taken on scraps of paper. Balance amounts forgotten. Customers disputing what they'd already paid.
• Zero customer communication.Customers calling repeatedly asking "Is my dress ready?" — and the shop owner manually checking every single time.

The tailoring industry in India is worth over ₹1 lakh crore. There are lakhs of tailor shops across the country. And almost all of them run on pen, paper, and memory.

We Built What Tailors Actually Need

We're not fashion designers. We're engineers who write code for a living. But we realized that the tailoring industry didn't need another generic business app — it needed something built specifically for how tailor shops actually work.

So we sat inside these shops. We watched how a master tailor takes measurements. We observed how orders flow from the counter to the cutting table to the karigar to the ironing station. We understood the rhythm of a busy Eid season and the quiet of a Monday morning.

And then we built FabTailor.

• Orders that track themselves — from booking to cutting to stitching to delivery, every step is visible.
• Measurements stored forever — once taken, never lost. Linked to the customer, searchable instantly.
• Worker management that works — assign tasks to karigars, track who did what, calculate piece-rate payments automatically.
• WhatsApp updates— customers get notified when their order is ready. No more "Is it done yet?" calls.
• Payments without confusion — advances, balances, and dues tracked clearly. No disputes, no guesswork.

Built by Engineers, Designed for Tailors

We obsessed over making FabTailor simple enough that a tailor who has never used a business app can start taking orders within minutes. No training manuals. No complex setup. Just download, sign up, and start running your shop better.

Every feature we build goes through a simple test: "Would a busy tailor in a small-town shop actually use this?"If the answer is no, we don't build it.

Our Mission

India's tailors are skilled artisans who create beautiful, custom clothing every day. They deserve tools that match their craft — not dusty diaries and mental math.

Our mission is to digitize every tailor shop in India— one order at a time. We want the neighbourhood tailor to have the same operational efficiency as a premium fashion brand. Because great software shouldn't be a luxury.

FabTailor is made with ❤️ in Hyderabad, India.
Got questions? Write to us at support@fabtailor.in