POClerk for apparel & footwear
Wholesale apparel orders, without retyping the size run
An apparel purchase order is rarely five lines. It is a style, a colourway, and a run of sizes — often written as a grid, often abbreviated to something only your sales team can read. Entering one properly means picking the right variant twenty or thirty times without slipping a row.
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An order like this one
This is the kind of message that arrives in your sales inbox, and the kind somebody currently retypes. Forward it — or have the buyer send it straight to your POClerk address — and it comes back as a draft order with every line matched.
Your PO inboxyourshop@in.poclerk.comA PDF off the buyer's system, with the size run as a grid.
Autumn drop attached — ship w/c 14 Oct. Confirm availability by Friday please. — Priya, Buying
NORTHFIELD OUTFITTERS
PURCHASE ORDER 7734 Terms: as agreed
Ship week commencing: 14 Oct 2026
STYLE COLOUR S M L XL TOTAL
Alder Hoodie Heather Grey 2 4 4 2 12
Alder Hoodie Deep Navy - 3 3 - 6
Trail Crew Sock Black assorted 12
TOTAL UNITS 30What makes apparel orders hard
A size run is one line to a buyer and twenty to your system
"S x2 M x4 L x4 XL x2" is four separate variants of one style. POClerk expands the run and matches each size to its own Shopify variant, so what arrives as three lines on a PO becomes the right number of order lines with the right quantity on each.
This is genuinely the hardest category, and we say so
On our published benchmark, apparel is our weakest catalog — because a garment in a dozen sizes and colours produces near-identical product names that are easy to confuse. What we optimise for here is not a perfect score but a visible one: when a line fits two variants, it is held with the reason rather than entered on a hunch.
Abbreviations that assume you know the range
"hthr gry", "blk", "asstd", a style code with a digit transposed. POClerk resolves abbreviations against your actual catalog, and where an abbreviation genuinely fits more than one product — a style and its Mid or Waterproof sibling — it refuses to choose and asks you.
The same buyer, the same shorthand, every season
Retail buyers reuse their own style codes year after year. Fix one to the right variant, tick "remember this for this customer", and their code is entered automatically on every future order from that account.
The same three stops, whatever you sell
Email body, PDF, spreadsheet, CSV, scan or photo — or dragged into the app.
Matched to your catalog, quantities converted by your pack rules, prices compared to your price list.
Sure lines are in; uncertain ones wait with a reason. One click creates the Shopify draft order.
Questions from apparel sellers
Can it read a size grid laid out as a table?
Yes — grids in PDFs and spreadsheets are read as sizes across and quantities down. If the layout is unclear enough that the reading is doubtful, the affected lines are held rather than expanded incorrectly.
What about prepacks and assorted cases?
An assorted pack is a product in your catalog with its own SKU, so it matches like anything else. Where a buyer writes a quantity in packs, pack rules convert it to units.
How accurate is it, really?
On our published benchmark — four real store catalogs and purchase orders in thirteen formats, from clean PDFs to phone photos — POClerk entered over 99% of lines correctly, and everything it could not be sure of was held and explained rather than guessed. The full method, the per-catalog results and a head-to-head against two established purchase-order apps are on the benchmark page.
That figure describes our test corpus, not a promise about your catalog — which is what the free first 10 orders are for.
Do my customers have to change anything?
No — that is the point. They keep sending the same emails, PDFs and spreadsheets they always have. You either forward those to your POClerk address or give buyers the address so they send there directly.
Try it on your own purchase orders.
First 10 free, on your real catalog, with no card. Check every line against the original before you pay anything.
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