A tailor at a sewing machine with cloth stacked beside him.
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Who works in a tailor shop or boutique

  • Master tailors, monthly, and often paid partly by the piece.
  • Helpers for finishing, buttons and thread work, weekly or daily.
  • Extra hands taken on for the wedding and festival season only.
  • An embroidery worker who comes when there is work for him.

A monthly base for the masters and daily pay for the extra season hands. Advances peak just before the season, when the work is promised but the money has not come in yet.

The argument this trade has

You took on four extra hands for six weeks of wedding season. Two months later nobody agrees on how many days each of them worked or how much advance each one took.

What matters most here

  1. Season hands on daily pay Add them for six weeks, keep the record forever.
  2. Advances before the season The biggest advances of the year, taken off by themselves.
  3. Find last season’s record What you paid the same worker last year.

The numbers this trade knows

  • A master tailor on ₹16,000 a month is about ₹530 a day.
  • A season helper at ₹450 a day for 40 days is ₹18,000 — worth writing down.

A shop like yours

We are looking for our first tailor shop or boutique willing to be named and photographed. If that could be you, tell us — we will come to the shop, and nothing is published without your signed permission.

Questions people ask

Can I pay per piece?

DailyPlus counts days, not pieces. Many tailors record the base as the wage and the piece money as a bonus with the reason on it.

What about workers who come only in the season?

Add them for the season, mark their days, and stop marking when the season ends. Their record stays.

Start keeping your register on your phone

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