Tutorials
Five short walkthroughs that take you from a new account to a delivered order. Do them in order the first time. The demo company “FreshPress Laundry” (from npm run db:seed) is handy for practising.
1. Set up your laundry (about 10 minutes)
- Choose Start free trial, fill in your company, your name, email and a password (with confirmation), and create the company. You arrive at the guided setup.
- Complete the company details and, if you have one, upload your logo (it appears on receipts, invoices, the tracking page and the portal).
- Review your branch’s opening hours, then Services: edit the sample services to match what you sell.
- Open Pricing: set a price for each service and garment type. Add rush tiers (for example Express) with a surcharge and faster turnaround.
- Open Workflows and keep or adjust the production stages. Open Operations to set rules such as tag printing, tax and receipt numbering.
- Open Staff and add your team. Give each person the role that fits: front desk, operators, quality control, drivers.
Not sure which role to pick? Start with the closest template. You can create custom roles later in Settings → Roles.
2. Take your first order
- Sign in as front desk and open New order (POS).
- Search for the customer, or add them (name and phone are enough).
- Choose a service tab and tap the garments, for example two shirts and a pair of trousers. Watch the total update.
- Tick Take payment now and choose Create order & take payment.
- You land on the order page showing Paid. Note the order number and the tracking code.
3. Tag and track the garments
- On the order page open the tags page. You will see one tag per garment, each with a QR code and a barcode.
- Print the tags, attach one to each garment, then choose Mark tags as printed.
- As an operator open Scan and scan a tag (or type its code, for example
LD-10077-01). The garment opens. - Open a garment and choose Save inspection after noting its condition. Intake cannot finish without it.
- In Production choose Start then Complete for each stage. The order’s status follows its garments: it shows the least advanced stage, and any rework shows as Rework.
No scanner? The Scan page also accepts typed codes, and a phone camera works once the site is on HTTPS. A USB or Bluetooth barcode scanner needs no setup: click the code box and scan.
4. Quality control and hand-over
- When a garment reaches quality control it appears under Quality control.
- Tick each checklist item that passes, leave the result on Passed and choose Record result. To fail it, untick the failing item and choose Rework required; it returns to the stage you pick.
- When every garment is ready the order becomes Ready. The customer’s tracking page shows it, and a notification can be sent if email or SMS is configured.
- At the counter open the order and choose Hand over to customer. Collect any balance first with Record payment.
5. Pickup and delivery
- Create an order with fulfilment set to pickup, delivery or both and enter the address, or let a customer book online at
/book/your-company-code. - As a delivery manager open Dispatch. Jobs needing a driver appear in the first column. Pick a driver and choose Assign.
- The driver opens My jobs on a phone, marks the pickup, and the item is then marked Received at branch in Dispatch. Pickup orders stay at intake until you do this.
- When the order is ready, assign the delivery. At the door the driver asks for the customer’s one-time code and a signature. Updates made offline are sent when the signal returns, without duplicates.
6. Read your numbers
- The Dashboard answers “what needs attention today”: overdue orders, garments stuck for hours, low stock.
- In Analytics compare branches and spot bottlenecks. In Reports export the figures to CSV, Excel or PDF for your accountant.
- Optional: add an AI provider key to the server settings (
ANTHROPIC_API_KEYorOPENAI_API_KEY) and use AI assistant to ask questions answered from your own data.
