Designers, ops teams, and finance all working from the same page. ApparelMagic PLM keeps specs, materials, costs, and vendor communication in one place. One source of truth for your entire product lifecycle. Click the link in our bio to see how we transform your product lifecycle from concept to creation.
Print-on-demand just got a major upgrade 👕
From emblem configuration to automated production workflows, ApparelMagic streamlines the entire process. Wholesale buyers get easy ordering, operations get clear tasks, finance gets clean reporting.
Your Shopify store and wholesale operations can finally stay in sync. ApparelMagic connects your orders, inventory, and accounting so everything flows together in one place. Want to learn more? We’ve written a blog all about it. Check it out in our bio.
Trade show season used to be the only time brands and buyers connected. Now it's year-round, and the brands winning those relationships are the ones who make ordering easy.
JOOR gives your wholesale buyers a 24/7 digital showroom. They can browse your collection, build orders, and submit them without waiting for a sales call or a market appointment.
But digital orders still need to land somewhere. And if that somewhere is a separate system that requires re-entry, you've just moved the bottleneck rather than eliminating it.
ApparelMagic integrates with JOOR so wholesale orders flow directly into your ERP. No manual entry. No version drift. The order your buyer submitted is the order your ops team fulfills.
14,000+ brands. 675,000+ retail buyers. One connected workflow.
BIG week next week... ApparelMagic Summit 2026 activities kicks off Tuesday in NYC, running May 19–21, with May 21st being "the main event." It will be a client and partner week with a full slate of conversations with the brands building on the platform.
What to expect: direct time with product leadership, candid conversations about what's working (and what's next), and the kind of 1:1 access that doesn't happen over email. If you've had a feature request sitting in your head, this is the week to bring it to the table - literally.
We're also overlapping with The Lead Summit (May 20–21), so the NYC will be full of apparel and retail operators all week. The hallway and "after hours" conversations at these events often matter as much as (and sometimes even more than) the structured sessions themselves.
Also running next week are Cala in Seattle and Accelerate in Salt Lake City.
A motorcycle helmet company on a fashion ERP might raise eyebrows. But H&H Sports Protection - the team behind Just1 Racing and Torc - has been running on ApparelMagic since 2016.
They started with the server-based version. Credit card processing was the initial draw. Over five years, it became the backbone of an operation spanning China, Italy, and the United States.
Then the server itself became the problem. Maintenance, upgrades, remote hosting headaches. CEO Peter Miao tested the cloud version with a single-user subscription before committing. A consultant migrated the data. "It was a smooth process."
What changed immediately: manual work disappeared. ShipStation handled shipping behind the scenes. And the B2B portal replaced the old cycle of emails, phone calls, and SKU lookups.
"Customers don't need to write emails anymore. They don't need to call reps. They don't need to remember SKU numbers. It's a very easy process."
East coast buyers now place orders overnight. The California team wakes up to them. And in 2022, H&H saw 50% sales growth.
The product is motorcycle gear. The operational challenge - inventory, orders, global logistics - is pure apparel. That's why the system fits.
The seasonal calendar didn't disappear. It just got company.
Ten years ago, most apparel brands operated on two cycles: Spring/Summer and Fall/Winter. You planned production, showed at market, shipped to retailers, and repeated. The rhythm was predictable.
Now? Drops. Capsules. Pre-orders. Reorders. Flash replenishment. Collaborations on their own timeline. All running alongside the traditional seasonal calendar - not replacing it.
For operations teams, this creates a particularly special kind of chaos: you're managing inventory against multiple demand patterns that don't align. A buyer needs to know if their Fall reorder can ship while you're still fulfilling a limited drop that launched last week.
The brands handling this well have one thing in common: visibility into what's actually available - not just what's on hand, but what's promised, incoming, and already committed. ATP (available to promise) calculations that update in real time.
The fractured calendar isn't going anywhere. The question is whether your systems can keep up with it.
Women design fewer than half of well-known womenswear brands.
That's not a typo. The industry that employs mostly women - 60-80% of the global garment workforce - and sells primarily to women, still puts men in most of the top seats. Male candidates made up over 75% of fashion CEO appointments in recent years.
But the brands challenging that pattern are worth watching.
Zimmermann, founded by sisters Nicky and Simone in 1991, became Australia's first billion-dollar fashion brand. Stella McCartney built a global luxury house on sustainability principles most of the industry still won't commit to. Rixo grew from two founders in 2015 to an international label - self-funded the whole way. Good American launched in 2016 with a size range from 00 to 32 and never looked back.
These aren't just success stories. They're proof that the path exists - even when the industry doesn't make it easy.
Happy Mother's Day weekend to the founders, operators, and makers forging ahead on their own paths.
Fun Friday in West Palm ☀️
Every Friday, our office takes a vote and picks a local spot to check out together. This week, the team chose @Eataly .
Being based in West Palm Beach means we get to enjoy the best part of South Florida, sunny skies, great local spots, and time together as a team. These little moments give us a chance to connect, laugh, and enjoy life outside the office.
This week’s outing included food plates, pastries, and a great time all around.
Your ERP holds the data. But what happens when someone asks "how did we do last month?"
Too often, the answer involves exporting to Excel, pivoting, formatting, and hoping nobody asks a follow-up question before you rebuild the report.
42 Technologies takes the operational data already living in your ERP and turns it into retail-ready intelligence. Sell-through by SKU. Inventory aging by location. Period-over-period comparisons that don't require a finance degree to interpret.
ApparelMagic integrates with 42 so your team can stop manually assembling reports and start actually using them. Same data, better visibility.
When your buyers, planners, and merchandisers can answer their own questions, decisions happen faster and the spreadsheet bottleneck disappears.
While everyone's talking about NYC next week, the Midwest has its own run of shows worth watching.
SubSummit in Kansas City (May 13–15) is pulling in subscription and retention-focused brands - a crowd that thinks about recurring revenue the way most apparel brands think about seasonal reorders. If you're exploring membership models or subscriber-first fulfillment, this is the room.
Minneapolis eCom Summit (May 14) is a single-day hit: commerce leaders, conversion tactics, and the kind of focused programming that doesn't waste your afternoon.
And DAX in Schaumburg, IL (May 15–16) brings the decorated apparel crowd together - embroidery, screen print, heat transfer. If you're in the custom or promotional space, this is your show.
Three events. Three days. All within driving distance of each other if you're ambitious.
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