# Everything Samplyn does > Every Samplyn capability by stage of the wholesale loop: specs, a buyer portal, sample tracking, purchase orders, milestones, shipments and Cardi. Page: https://samplyn.com/platform Updated: 2026-11-12 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. ## Develop: Styles, specs and sample requests - 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. More: https://samplyn.com/platform/develop ## Sell: The buyer portal and the sales team's tools - 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. More: https://samplyn.com/platform/sell ## Samples: Sample custody and buyer loans - 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. More: https://samplyn.com/platform/samples ## Make: Purchase orders, milestones and factories - 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. More: https://samplyn.com/platform/make ## Ship: Shipments, tracking and your warehouse - 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. More: https://samplyn.com/platform/ship ## Run 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. ## Cardi: The AI agent that works it with you - 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. More: https://samplyn.com/cardi --- Book a demo: https://samplyn.com/demo. Every page: https://samplyn.com/llms.txt.