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Walk into most custom-embroidery operations and you will find the same scene: a binder of handwritten order slips, a shared spreadsheet that is always a day behind, and a stack of garments with sticky notes that say things like "Sarah — pink thread? check w/ customer." The workflow has not changed in decades, even as order volume has.
ThreadReady exists because we believe embroidery shops deserve the same purpose-built tooling that screen printers, DTG operators, and CNC shops already have.
ThreadReady is an order-management platform designed specifically for embroidery. It handles the full lifecycle — customer intake, design preview, approval, production tracking, and handoff — in one place.
Customers see an actual embroidery rendering as they type, not a flat-text mockup. You build design templates with positioned text fields, monogram layouts, and hoop-size constraints. The preview updates in real time so customers know exactly what they are approving.
Upload your BX font files, organize them into families with size variants (half-inch, one-inch, two-inch, and beyond), and let the system select the right variant automatically based on the text length and field size. No more hunting through folders on the digitizing PC.
Configure your full thread catalog — brand, line, weight, catalog number, hex preview — and flag which colors are currently loaded on each machine. Customers pick from your real inventory, and you can schedule palette availability by day of the week or restrict it to on-machine colors only.
Set up a tablet at the counter and let walk-in customers build their own orders. The kiosk auto-resets after inactivity, supports receipt printing with barcodes, and lets staff scan a receipt later to pull the order back up instantly. You control session timeouts, keyboard input, and whether SMS or email proofs are offered.
Create pricing profiles with base prices, per-character fees, stitch-count add-ons, and conditional modifiers. Attach a profile to any design template so pricing is calculated automatically — no mental math at the register.
Every approval, edit, status change, and customer comment is recorded with a timestamp and actor. When a customer says "I never approved that thread color," you have the receipt.
When an order is ready for the machine, download the stitch file in DST, PES, EXP, or JEF format. Or push the order to TrackMy.Shop for downstream fulfillment tracking and customer notifications.
Invite your team with scoped roles — owner, admin, member, or viewer — so everyone sees exactly what they need. Connect your Shopify store to pull in e-commerce orders, and use the API and webhooks to tie ThreadReady into the rest of your stack.
ThreadReady Pro is $100 per month with unlimited orders, unlimited users, and every feature included. No per-seat upcharges, no tiered feature gates, no surprise stitch-count bills. You get the full platform from day one.
Create an account, upload your first font family, build a design template, and place a test order. The entire setup takes less than an afternoon — and your sticky-note binder can finally retire.