A wedding gown is made to order against a deposit and a wedding date. A prom dress sells in one season, to boutiques that want the style exclusively in their town. A special occasion line sells to department stores on EDI. AIMS360 was built on apparel matrices, production and native EDI, and it runs made-to-order gowns, seasonal prom and department store occasionwear from one record.
Parent industry: Fashion & Apparel ERP →Whether you make gowns to order for bridal boutiques, sell prom and quinceanera lines at Formal Markets Atlanta, or ship occasionwear to department stores, the order date and the boutique relationship are the first things the system has to get right.
A bridal boutique places an order for a size 12 in ivory, extra length, with a deposit, for a wedding in eight months. The gown does not exist yet. It has to be cut, sewn, finished, shipped and altered in time, and the boutique will call every week. Prom is the opposite problem: one season, hundreds of boutiques, each wanting the style exclusively in its town, and a delivery window that closes in March.
Most apparel systems hold stock and ship it. Made-to-order with deposits, customer-set dates and boutique exclusivity lives in spreadsheets and email, which is how gowns miss weddings.
AIMS360 raises the production from the order: a cut ticket or vendor purchase orders tied to the sales order and its ship date, tracked through production process tracking and WIP transfer tracking, with the deposit taken through AIMS360 Pay and applied at invoice. Prom and occasion lines run as pre-book by delivery on the same style, color and size matrix, and department store occasionwear runs on native EDI.
Each gown order raises its cut ticket or vendor purchase orders with the customer's ship date, tracked through production process tracking, with the bill of materials carrying lace, lining, boning and beading.
Nordstrom, Dillard's, Macy's, Belk, Saks Fifth Avenue, Neiman Marcus and Von Maur mapped natively for occasionwear, bulk and dropship, with the 856 and 810 off the same shipment.
Every boutique with its own pricing, terms and exclusivity, reorders on WebLink or written by the rep in RemoteLink at Formal Markets, deposits through AIMS360 Pay, and stock, made-to-order and pre-book on one open to sell through intelligent allocation.
The sequence a bridal or formal brand runs, and where AIMS360 holds it.
Bridal and prom sell almost entirely through independent boutiques, with department stores buying special occasion, mother of the bride and prom in the moderate tier.
Department stores. Nordstrom, Dillard's, Macy's, Belk and Boscov's buy occasionwear and prom on bulk EDI with their own vendor manuals; Saks Fifth Avenue, Neiman Marcus and Von Maur take the evening and designer tier.
Boutiques. The bridal salon and the prom boutique are the channel. They order at Formal Markets Atlanta in April and August and at the New York and Chicago bridal markets, reorder by phone and portal, and want exclusivity by town for prom.
Marketplace. Amazon carries the moderate occasion and holiday volume on its own program.
Beyond those, the same native EDI reaches the 350+ retailer network, and boutique wholesale runs as sales orders written in RemoteLink, WebLink or the B2B platform your buyers already use.
Prom is bought at Formal Markets Atlanta in August and again in April, ships from January to March, and is over by April. Bridal is a rolling book: orders arrive every week with dates eight to twelve months out, and the production floor runs to those dates, not to a season. Quinceanera, holiday and pageant sit between them.
AIMS360 holds prom as pre-book by delivery on the style, color and size matrix, with boutique exclusivity by account, and holds bridal as made-to-order production raised from each sales order with its date. Deposits are taken at the booth or on the portal through AIMS360 Pay and applied at invoice, and the boutique sees status without calling.
Formal Markets Atlanta runs April 13 to 15 and August 2 to 6, 2027; see the 2027 trade show calendar. Reps write the orders in RemoteLink at the booth and they arrive as imported on reconnect.
Bridal and formal brands usually arrive at AIMS360 from QuickBooks with deposits in a spreadsheet, or from a general ERP that could ship stock but not raise a gown from an order. The apparel ERP guide covers the field.
The question to ask any system: show me a size 12 ivory gown ordered today with a deposit for a June wedding, its cut ticket, its status next month, and the invoice with the deposit applied.
For a structured comparison against named systems, see the comparison pages and the ERP buying guide.
Founder and operator. One order book across bridal made-to-order, prom pre-book and department store occasion, with deposits and dates visible.
Design. Gowns by size and length, prom by color and size, sample sets tracked, line sheets published from one place.
Production. Cut tickets raised from each order with its date; lace, lining, boning and beading on the bill of materials.
Sales and reps. Orders and deposits written in RemoteLink at Formal Markets and on the road; boutiques reorder on WebLink.
Warehouse. Boutique packing slips and department store carton labels from the same order; GS1-128 for the chains.
Finance. Deposits reconciled at invoice; the 810 comes off the shipment; factoring runs as a native workflow.
AIMS360 fits bridal, prom and formal brands from a first Formal Markets booth through hundreds of boutiques and department store occasion programs.
One that raises production from a made-to-order sale with the customer's date, takes deposits at order and applies them at invoice, holds prom as pre-book with boutique exclusivity, and runs EDI natively for the department stores. AIMS360 does all four on the same apparel matrix it has run since 1984.
The sales order raises a cut ticket or vendor purchase orders carrying the customer's ship date, tracked through production process tracking and WIP transfer tracking, with the bill of materials behind it. The boutique sees status without calling.
Yes, through AIMS360 Pay, at the booth once the iPad is online or on the portal, applied against the invoice at shipment.
Each boutique is an account with its own pricing, terms and the styles it carries, so a rep writing at Formal Markets sees which styles are open in that town before the order is written.
Nordstrom, Dillard's, Macy's, Belk, Saks Fifth Avenue, Neiman Marcus, Von Maur, Boscov's and Amazon, natively, within the native EDI network of 350+ retailers.
Reps write them in RemoteLink on an iPad and they arrive as imported on reconnect, deposits included once online. Formal Markets run April 13 to 15 and August 2 to 6, 2027; see the 2027 trade show calendar.
Yes, on WebLink, where each boutique sees its own price sheet, terms and order history. Orders queue for review and then import.
Yes, on the bill of materials behind each style, consumed through cut tickets. See ERP for apparel manufacturers for the production side.
The full apparel platform: styles, matrices, production, EDI and every channel.
Cut tickets, contractors, work in process and the bill of materials.
Orders and deposits written at Formal Markets, offline if needed.
Formal Markets Atlanta, Atlanta Apparel and the rest by month.
Bring one gown order with a deposit and a wedding date. We will raise the cut ticket, show the boutique its status, and apply the deposit at the invoice.
