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Samplyn

Everything Samplyn does, in the order the work happens.

Samplyn is order and product management software for apparel wholesalers and private-label makers. It runs beside your ERP and your EDI provider, and it holds the line, the buyers, the samples, the production and the shipments on one record.

Sample Co / Today
Open orders
24
Samples out
31
On the water
6
Needs you
  • Ribbed crew sweaterST-1042Sample passed
  • Cable cardiganST-1057Yarn 4 days late
  • Waffle-knit henleyST-1063On the water
  • Mock-neck pulloverST-1071Out with buyer

01Develop

Styles, specs and sample requests

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Styles
Photos, attributes, bulk edits, an importer, printing, barcode labels, AI descriptions and analysis, similar styles.
Points of measure
A library for the business, presets per category and brand, per-style spec sheets applied from a preset.
Sample requests
Started from a style, a design or a moodboard; phases from draft to passed or failed; submit and approve; printable sample-submit, spec-sheet and swatch-submit forms.
Moodboards
Live collaborative canvases on a sample request, built by talking to Cardi; personal boards with read-only share links.
AI photos
On-model try-on from a model library with back and side views, CAD to photo, photo to CAD, color change, pattern add or remove, seasonal adaptation, showroom shots, studio backdrops, upscale, background change, gap filling in bulk, and brand-safety flags.

02Sell

The buyer portal and the sales team's tools

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Buyer portal
Invite-only, scoped to the buyer's company and divisions, prices masked by role, and view as buyer for staff.
Lists
Current line, wishlists buyers build and share, line sheets as PDF, print or labels with per-list pricing, shop lists, cloning, an importer, and AI list analysis that coaches.
Sample cart
Buyers add styles from any list and check out into a sample request.
Style Finder
Find styles from a photo or a text description.
Styling suggestions
Buyers suggest what pairs with what; staff approve.
Style Pitcher
An explainable ranking of which styles to pitch to which account, pitch tracking and outcomes, wishlist meetings recorded as pitches.
Sales Timeline
Which customers to pitch or meet this week, from their buying windows.
Meeting capture
Photograph or scan style codes at a meeting into a list.
Retailer intelligence
A dossier per account from SEC filings, Census, FRED, Google Trends, news, a storefront scan and category mix; refreshed nightly.

03Samples

Sample custody and buyer loans

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Custody
Check out and check in by scan to a person, bulk check-in, overdue alerts.
Buyer loans
Keep, return, more time, or send me another (type, color, size range), with statements and reminders.
Scanning and labels
Barcode scan anywhere in the app; labels for styles, purchase orders and lists.

04Make

Purchase orders, milestones and factories

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Purchase orders
Line items, size grids, role-masked pricing, customer margins, a draft status committed by a person, and a stage-by-stage production pipeline.
Bulk actions
Status, category, create a shipment and print labels for many orders at once.
Documents by stage
What is due at each stage, a care label slot, packing lists safe for the warehouse.
Time-and-action
Milestones per order as a Gantt, with delay notifications.
Factories
A directory including leads from web inquiries, capacity, compliance audits, certifications, and a Capacity and Compliance dashboard.

05Ship

Shipments, tracking and your warehouse

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Shipments
Linked to the purchase orders they carry; an inventory order can ride a shipment; ETA delay reasons sent to the warehouse.
Tracking
Live ocean container and FedEx parcel tracking, a route map, stale and exception alerts; numbers that cannot be tracked are refused.
Buyers
Buyers see their own shipments when their company's switch is on.
3PL portal
Outside dock workers see inbound containers for their warehouse only, find by container number, mark received or received with issues; advance shipping notices and receiving alerts.
Map
Factories and warehouses on one map.

06Run it

Reports, tasks, inbox and control

Reports
Home dashboard plus Executive, Orders detail, Monthly, Products, Customers, Performance, Production, Capacity and Compliance, Activity, category profit and margin, and AI usage.
Tasks
Tasks on any record, boards, templates, dependencies, workstreams, and a calendar across records.
Inbox
Comments with mentions on about ten record types, around forty notification types, inquiries, email digests, and emails whose subject says what happened.
Audit and usage
Every create, update and delete logged with who did it; usage analytics with warm-buyer alerts.
Roles and settings
Permissions per role; workspace name and logos, default owners per workflow stage, markup and upcharge settings, AI keys and chat caps.
API
A REST API with OpenAPI docs; keys are issued and integrations set up by us.
Brand storefronts
A done-for-you add-on: white-label sites we build for your brands, with lead capture into Samplyn.

07Cardi

The AI agent that works it with you

Meet Cardi

Reads and edits
Styles, lists, purchase orders, shipments and comments, with a batch confirm of up to 2,000 records that expires after 15 minutes.
Answers
What needs me, compare periods, find by photo, Ask Cardi on any detail page, voice, and a results panel you can select and act on.
Morning brief
An email at 07:00 in each person's own time zone, opt-in.
Control
53 tools; money visible only to admins; every change tagged via Cardi in the audit log; staff only.

Where it stops

Samplyn runs beside your ERP and your EDI provider: invoicing, accounting and EDI stay where they are. There is no factory login and no screen for production inspections today.

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