The operating system for textiles & merch.
Anyone producing merch professionally works in two entirely different worlds: the office on one hand – the raw reality of production at the machines on the other.
Synchronised in real time: from the control desk to the phone at the machine.
One record.
Competing systems can book or produce. CORTELA OS does both with the same dataset.
It is exactly at that seam that the mistakes arise which end up costing real money. CORTELA OS keeps both worlds in step, in real time. It closes the gaps in the process and catches mistakes on its own, before they ever surface on the shop floor.
Seven modules. One backbone.
Same data, many lenses: each module is a view of the same order. Nothing is maintained twice.
The foundation of the system. Instead of wiring up separate tools for chat, calendar and task assignment, internal communication runs on the job it belongs to. No briefing goes missing, no digging through external project tools – the control desk for every user.
From first briefing to a solid quote: costing across all techniques, approval links for artwork and a mockup studio that shows designs on real garments. An approval becomes the production order without media breaks.
Tour and sales logic: shows, drops, venues and points of sale with per-night settlement. If you sell on the road, you see stock and revenue where they happen.
The CRM of the merch world: customers, contacts, acts and portals, including client access for approvals and orders. Every enquiry knows its history.
Sourcing and stock: purchase orders with goods-in, garment and consumables inventory, reservations and stocktaking. The system knows what is there before production starts.
The production brain: control room, machine terminals, plan wall and shift planning. Full shop-floor control from the screen room to the packing bench.
Numbers without the side job: invoicing and e-invoices, GoBD archive, automatic dunning and DATEV export. One line from quote to paid invoice.
What the system does.
Twelve points from daily operations. Every one of them runs; none is announced.
The customer sees their own job
Their own login instead of a status email: stage, deadline, approvals, documents. Prices and margins stay out, and the database enforces that.
Artwork on the garment in seconds
Click the position, pick the technique, done. The design sits on the real product photo, not on a silhouette.
Garments, colours and prices in one filter
Search by fit, weight, colour, certification. The colour values are measured off real packshots, not guessed from the colour name.
Techniques that know their own rules
Each technique knows its Pantone book, its colour ceiling and its caveat: discharge on cotton only, Waterbase warns about metamerism.
Production down to the single machine
Not just which job is next: which thread sits on which needle, how the platen is taped, what the next colour change costs in setup time.
Capacity and shifts planned ahead
Who stands at which station when, and what that means for the date you promised. Planning uses the machines that are actually free.
Tour, show and settlement per night
Shows, drops, venues and points of sale. If you sell on the road, you see stock and revenue where they happen.
Stock and sourcing
Stock, reservations, goods-in, stocktaking. The reorder proposal weighs confirmed jobs against own stock and open purchase orders, and names the job each shortfall comes from.
Dates, tasks and projects on the job
Calendar, to-dos, messages and rooms hang on the thing they are about. No second tool for the briefing to disappear into.
Invoicing, dunning, DATEV
E-invoicing, GoBD archive, automatic dunning and the export for the tax accountant. One line from quote to incoming payment.
Queueing and automatic machine matching
One click pulls all confirmed orders into the queue. An algorithm then assigns each one automatically to the cheapest available machine — sorted by changeover cost, not by arrival date.
An emergency mode for the whole day
Orders can be flagged urgent or emergency — they then automatically cut ahead of the normal changeover-cost optimization. One click clears the entire day’s plan for anything time-critical, if needed.
Four business types, one system.
CORTELA OS grows with the business — from a broker with no machine of their own to a full-line shop with a hundred people on the floor.
Agencies & resellers
You sell, plan and manage clients — production sits with partners. Requests, approvals and client access run through CORTELA OS without owning a single machine.
Tour & event planners
Plan shows, drops and points of sale, sell offline on site — with no production line of your own. Stock and revenue come together where they happen.
Producers who outsource
Your own machine park, but not enough capacity for every peak: jobs can be handed to partner shops on purpose, with status updates instead of phone calls.
Full-line operators
A complete machine park, a large team: plan shifts, load capacity, watch every station from the control room — the full feature set for a business that does everything itself.
Six views, one system.
Excerpts from the running application. Sample data, real views.
In 90 minutes you will know whether it fits.
We walk through the modules using one of your real jobs, not a sample case. Then you decide.