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Tools for the Apparel Industry
Free calculators, converters and planners for the people who cost, make, import and sell clothing.
Apparel work runs on numbers: what a garment costs to make, what it truly costs by the time it lands in a warehouse, how a size run grades out, how much fabric an order needs, how many cartons fit a container, how many garments a line can sew, and whether the stock on the floor is earning its keep. The tools on this page do those everyday calculations for you. Each one is free, runs right in your browser with no sign-up, and is built for one specific job in the chain from first costing to final markdown.
Work roughly in the order a garment moves through a business. Cost it with the cost sheet, land it with the landed cost calculator, compare factory quotes, spec it with the tech pack builder, grade it and convert its sizes, check capacity and quality, split the order by size curve, schedule production on the timeline planner, pack it with the container calculator, and then watch it sell with the merchandising metrics and open-to-buy planner.
Costing & Importing Tools
Importing turns a factory price into a shelf price, and the steps in between (freight, duty, insurance and fees) are where margins quietly disappear. These tools cover the money side of an order: what a garment costs to make, what a factory quote really costs, and what you can afford to pay.
New to the money side of an order? Start with the Garment Costing & Production Economics Guide: cost sheets, CMT pricing, fabric consumption, SMV, landed cost and pricing margins, explained step by step.
Garment Cost Sheet
Build the cost of one garment from its parts: fabrics, trims, packaging and labor, with a cost per garment and a cost per order. Totals can be sent straight to the Landed Cost Calculator.
Open tool →Landed Cost Calculator
Work out the true cost per unit of imported apparel, footwear and accessories once freight, duty and fees are added, then set wholesale and retail prices and download the result as CSV, Excel or PDF.
Open tool →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.
Open tool →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.
Open tool →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.
Open tool →Carton & Container Load Calculator
Plan how an order packs: enter mixed carton sizes, compare floor loading with pallets (US or EUR), and estimate CBM, total weight and chargeable weight before you book the container.
Open tool →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.
Open tool →Fabric, Sizing & Production Tools
Technical work has its own arithmetic: fabric weights in two systems, sizes that change names at every border, spec sheets that have to grow and shrink evenly across a size range, and factories that have to hit a quality level and a date. These tools handle the conversions, grading and planning that pattern rooms and production teams do by hand.
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.
Open tool →Fabric & Textile Unit Converter
Convert GSM to oz/yd², yards to meters, fabric weight per linear yard or meter, roll weights, and yarn counts in tex, denier, Nm and Ne, the conversions fabric buyers and mills use daily.
Open tool →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.
Open tool →Size Grading Calculator
Enter base-size measurements and your grade rules and see the graded spec for every size, in inches or centimeters, ready to download as a PDF or Excel spec sheet.
Open tool →Size Chart & Conversion Tool
Convert clothing and shoe sizes between US, UK, EU, Italian, French and Japanese systems for women and men, and see the body measurements behind each size.
Open tool →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.
Open tool →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.
Open tool →Buying, Planning & Merchandising Tools
Once the product is costed and graded, the questions turn commercial: how many of each size and color to order, when production has to hit each milestone, how much you can still buy, and how the buy is performing once it reaches the floor.
Size Curve & Order Splitter
Split a total order quantity by color and size using a size scale or ratio, with units rounded to workable pack quantities, the fastest way to turn a buy total into a purchase order.
Open tool →Production Timeline Planner
A time and action (T&A) calendar planner that works backward from your delivery date to schedule overseas or domestic production, with a downloadable schedule for the whole team.
Open tool →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.
Open tool →Merchandising Metrics Calculator
The retail scorecard in one place: sell-through rate, weeks of supply, reorder point, inventory turnover, GMROI, markdown impact and margin for buyers, retailers and brands.
Open tool →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.
Open tool →More Apparel Business Resources
Prefer to work on paper or in a spreadsheet of your own? The downloadable fashion industry templates offer ready-made tech packs, cost sheets, T&A calendars, size charts, inspection reports and tracking logs. For step-by-step help, see the How To guides and Fashion Questions & Answers. Printable fashion industry checklists cover launching a line, tech packs, factory visits, pre-production and shipping. For the wider set of industry resources, see the main tools and resources index, and browse the rest of the site from the Apparel Search fashion portal.
Common Questions
Are these apparel industry tools free to use?
Yes. Every calculator, converter and planner on this page is free to use in your browser, with no sign-up. Enter your own numbers and the results update as you work.
Who are these tools made for?
They are built for the people who cost, make, import and sell clothing: importers and sourcing teams, designers and technical designers, production managers, buyers and retail merchandisers. Each tool covers one recurring job in that chain.
Can I download or save my results?
Most of the tools let you download your work as a spreadsheet or PDF. For example, the landed cost calculator offers CSV, Excel and PDF, the size grading calculator offers PDF and Excel, and the timeline planner produces a downloadable schedule, so the numbers can go straight into a style file or a buy plan.
Where should I start if I am importing a garment?
Start with the Garment Cost Sheet to build the cost of the garment itself, send those totals to the Landed Cost Calculator to add freight, duty and fees and see the true cost per unit, then use the Carton and Container Load Calculator to plan how the order will pack and ship.
Does Apparel Search store what I enter?
No. The tools run in your web browser, so nothing you type is sent to or stored on our site.
Are the results guaranteed to be exact?
The calculations are arithmetic on the numbers you enter, but real costs, dates, measurements and quantities can differ. Treat the results as estimates and confirm them with your suppliers, factories, forwarders and other qualified professionals.