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Tools for the Apparel Industry

Free online tools for the fashion, textile and footwear industries, built by Apparel Search.

Free online tools for designers, brands, importers, buyers and manufacturers in the fashion, textile and footwear industries, built by Apparel Search. They follow a collection from cost to size to production to shipment to sell-through. Each tool runs in your web browser, so nothing you enter is stored on our site, and every tool lets you download your results.

Costing and pricing

Garment Cost Sheet

List fabric, trims, packaging and labor to find the cost of one garment and a whole order, then send the totals straight to the Landed Cost Calculator.

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Landed Cost Calculator

Work out the true cost per unit of bringing a product into your market, including freight, insurance, duties, tariffs and fees, then set wholesale and retail prices. Built for importers of clothing, textiles, footwear and fashion accessories.

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Target FOB Price Calculator

Start with your retail price and margins to find the most you can pay a factory per garment, after retailer margin, duty, freight and fees. Includes a price walk and a factory quote check.

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Supplier Quote Comparison

Compare factory quotes side by side with freight, duty, fees and minimum orders included, to see the real cost per unit from each supplier.

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Price Break Calculator

Compare factory quantity price tiers and minimum orders, including duty, freight and unsold inventory, to find the order size that really costs least.

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Production, quality and shipping

Timeline Planner (T&A Calendar)

Build a time and action calendar for overseas or domestic production. Plan backward from the date you need goods, or forward from your start date, and add a delay buffer. Download it or add the milestones to your calendar.

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Production Capacity and CM Cost Calculator

Use a garment’s SAM and your line efficiency to find daily output, days to finish an order, operators needed for a delivery date, and cut-and-make cost per garment. Includes a SAM builder and an efficiency what-if table.

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AQL Inspection Sampling Calculator

Find the sample size and accept/reject numbers for a garment or textile quality inspection from your order quantity, inspection level and AQL. See the chance a lot will pass, judge your inspection results, and download the plan, with a plain-English guide to AQL for fashion buyers.

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Carton & Container Load Calculator

Enter mixed carton sizes and compare floor loading with US or EUR pallets. Get CBM, weight, chargeable weight and an estimate of the containers needed, with drawings of how it loads.

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Import Cash Flow Planner

See when cash goes out and comes back across factory deposits, freight, duty and retailer payment terms, and how much an order ties up.

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Design, specs and textiles

Tech Pack Builder

Build a factory-ready garment tech pack with sketches, materials, graded measurements, construction and packaging details. Download as PDF or Excel, or save your work to finish later.

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Size Grading Calculator

Turn base-size measurements and your own grade rules into a full graded spec table. Switch between inches and centimeters, set rounding and tolerances, and download the table for your tech pack or factory.

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Size Conversion Tool

Convert women's clothing, men's clothing and adult shoe sizes between US, UK, European, Italian, French and Japanese systems. See the measurements behind each size and download the full chart.

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Fabric Consumption and Marker Efficiency Calculator

Work out how much fabric one garment uses, how efficient your marker is, and how much fabric to buy for an order, including allowances and shrinkage. Get rolls needed and fabric cost, and download the results.

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Fabric & Textile Unit Converter

Convert GSM to oz/yd², yards to meters and yarn counts (tex, denier, Nm, Ne), and estimate fabric weight per length, roll weight and rolls needed for an order.

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Buying and merchandising

Size Curve & Order Splitter

Split a total order across colors and sizes, rounded to carton or pack sizes, with a ready-to-send order grid and checks against factory minimums.

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Open-to-Buy Planner (OTB Planner)

Build a monthly merchandise plan and see how much you can still buy. Enter planned sales, markdowns and stock targets to get planned purchases and open-to-buy.

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Merchandising Metrics Calculator

Calculate sell-through, weeks of supply, reorder points, inventory turns, GMROI, markdown impact, margin and markup for buying and inventory decisions.

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Collection Break-Even Planner

Find the sell-through a clothing style or collection needs to cover sampling, patterns, photography and production, with clearance value for unsold units.

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More tools coming soon

We are adding new tools regularly. Have an idea that would help your business? Contact us.

About these tools

The tools are designed for planning and general guidance. Results are estimates based on the information you enter and on commonly published conventions, and real-world costs, dates, measurements and sizes can differ. Please confirm important figures with your suppliers, factories, freight forwarders, customs brokers or other qualified professionals. See our Legal page for terms of use.

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