The Board: production at a glance

Updated 15 July 2026 · 1 min read

Every commission as a card moving through your stages — with auto-advance for the steps machines can see.

The Board is the wall of the workroom, digitised: every open commission as a card in a stage column.

The stages

Cards move from order through production — cutting, making, finishing — to fitting and collection. Drag a card to move it, or let auto-advance move it for you when the underlying work is logged (a payment lands, a fitting outcome is recorded, a factory updates a ticket).

Reading the wall

  • A crowded column is a bottleneck — the Board shows where work piles up before anyone complains.
  • A stale card (sitting too long in one stage) is flagged, because the commission nobody touched for three weeks is the one that becomes an apology.
  • Awaiting approval collects anything needing a decision — a client sign-off, a quote pending. See Quotes and approvals.

Cards are doors

Every card opens into the full commission — items, payments, alterations, notes and its place in the client's story.

The Board and the Diary between them are the studio's morning: what's moving, and who's coming in.

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