If you are comparing point-of-sale systems for a UAE or GCC abaya, kandura or tailoring shop, the real question is whether one system can run your retail counter and your made-to-order workshop together. TailorSync was built in the UAE by a tailoring family to do exactly that: ready-to-wear POS at the front, custom orders with saved measurements, deposits and delivery dates behind it, plus fabric stock, barcode labels and FTA VAT invoices in AED, all in one place.
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If you are weighing an abaya or retail POS alternative, you are already asking which system fits your shop. The honest place to start is one question, not a long feature list: does the software run both sides of your trade on the same books? Most abaya, kandura and tailoring shops sell ready-to-wear off the rail and also take made-to-order work, so a system that only rings up retail leaves every custom order, deposit and measurement on a separate system. TailorSync was built in the UAE by a tailoring family for shops that do both. The rest of this page lays out the criteria worth checking in any POS you look at, and shows where TailorSync fits.
The most useful test for an abaya or tailoring shop is whether one system rings up ready-to-wear sales at the counter and also books made-to-order pieces, each with a deposit, a delivery date and an assigned tailor. A retail-only till leaves the custom side on paper. TailorSync runs both on the same customer record and the same VAT invoice sequence, which is the reason a tailoring family built it in the first place.
Look for software that lets a customer take a design off your rail and choose the size, fabric and colour, so a shelf piece becomes a made-to-measure order without re-keying it. TailorSync carries those variant choices straight onto the order and through to the workshop.
Check that measurements live on the customer, not just on one order, so a regular reorders without being measured again. TailorSync keeps named measurement profiles per client and pulls the right one onto every new abaya or kandura.
In the UAE the software has to issue proper tax invoices: your TRN, a unique sequential gap-free number, the VAT amount shown and totals in AED. TailorSync does this on every sale, order and POS receipt, and produces a credit note when a piece is returned or an order is cancelled.
A tailoring shop needs its fabrics and finished pieces held as stock, with an alert before a popular cloth runs out and barcode labels to speed up the till. TailorSync tracks fabric such as nada and crepe as SKUs with suppliers, warns you before stock runs low, and prints barcode labels you can scan at POS.
If you plan to open more shops, confirm the POS runs several branches under one login with role-based access, rather than a separate island per till. TailorSync gives each branch its own cash sessions and stock, lets you share stock between them, and reports across the whole business from one dashboard.
How it works
Write down what you sell ready-made and what you make to order. Your shortlist has to handle both, or you end up keeping a separate book for whichever side it misses. For most abaya and kandura shops that is the deciding factor.
Follow one made-to-order piece from start to finish: customer measurements, a deposit at booking, a delivery date, production stages and the balance at collection. This is where a retail-only POS falls down, so test it before you commit.
Confirm the invoices are FTA-compliant tax invoices in AED with your TRN and sequential numbering, that a return or cancellation produces a proper credit note, and that you can share an order and its invoice with the customer on WhatsApp.
Use a free trial to run a genuine walk-in sale and a genuine custom order through the system on your own counter. A morning of real use tells you more than any feature list or comparison page.
The fair answer is that it depends on how you trade. If your shop only sells ready-made stock, most retail tills will cope. If you also take made-to-order abayas, kanduras or alterations, TailorSync is worth a look, because it runs retail and custom work on one system with measurements, deposits, delivery dates and FTA VAT invoices in AED. It was built in the UAE by a tailoring family, and there is a free 30-day trial, so you can judge it on your own orders rather than on a comparison page.
For most abaya, kandura and tailoring shops, yes. Almost all of them sell ready-to-wear and also take made-to-order work, and a tool that does only one side leaves the other on paper or in a second system. TailorSync treats them as one business, so a walk-in sale and a custom order sit on the same customer record, the same stock and the same VAT invoice sequence.
Yes. TailorSync issues FTA-compliant tax invoices with your TRN, sequential gap-free numbering and the VAT amount shown, in AED by default, on every sale, order and POS receipt. It supports tax-inclusive or tax-exclusive pricing and separate retail and wholesale rates, and it produces a credit note when you take a return or cancel an order.
Yes. Measurements are saved to the customer's profile, not just to a single order, so a returning client can reorder an abaya or kandura without being measured again. Each client keeps named measurement profiles and a full order history, and the right set is pulled onto the next order.
Yes. There is a free 30-day trial with the full feature set and no card required, then paid Starter, Expansion and Enterprise plans priced in AED. A single shop can start small and move up as it adds users and branches, so you can try it on real sales and orders before you pay anything.
Start a free 30-day trial and run a real walk-in sale and a real made-to-order piece through one system, built in the UAE for abaya, kandura and tailoring shops, with FTA VAT invoices in AED.