How to keep fabric orders and supplier updates in one place

Supplier communication at a small atelier is rarely in one place. The fabric order goes out by email. The vendor replies about a delay on WhatsApp. The approval is a phone call. The shipping notice comes back as a photo of a paper invoice that someone's husband sent from his phone. If there's time, someone writes the dates into a spreadsheet. The status of one PO ends up living across four channels and two people's memory.

When something goes wrong later, and something usually does, reconstructing what was agreed and when takes most of an afternoon.

Easy answer: get everyone on one tool. We shipped it this week.