Samples

What is a sample in Kamna?

A sample is a proto, fit, size set, salesman, PP or other piece your factory makes before a lot or beside one.

Kamna records three things about it: the material it used, what it cost, and whether it became a lot. Samples sit on their own tab in Production, beside Garment and Fabric. Kamna is not a design tool, so patterns, fit comments and revisions stay wherever you keep them today.

How do I start a sample?

Tap the create button and choose Sample, or open the Samples tab in Production and tap New sample. Then tap its kind.

The kinds are Proto, Fit, Size set, Salesman, PP and Other. One tap makes the sample at once, with the next number in your factory's sample series: plain numbers, the way lot numbers run. A remake after the buyer's comments is a new sample. A sample started by a wrong tap can be deleted while it still holds nothing: no material, no lot, and not marked done. Delete sample sits under its name and start date.

What goes on a sample's page?

A name, the day it started, the processes it goes through, its material and its sampling cost.

• Name: whatever the floor calls it, in free text. It is never a style or a buyer.
• Started: today unless you change it, and never a day ahead.
• Processes: picked from one list that holds Production's own stages, the fabric run stages and the making stages, such as Knitting, Dyeing, Printing and Stitching. A sample keeps one start and one end for the whole piece, never dates, vendors or quantities per process.

Tap Save to keep a change to the name, the start or the sampling cost. Save appears once a box has changed, as the black button under the sample's number. A change made offline waits in the queue and lands when the phone is back online, the same as an entry on a lot.

How do I take material from stock for a sample?

On the sample, tap Call in from stock, then pick the yarn, fabric or trims lot, its colour when the lot is split, and how much.

The quantity is typed in the stock lot's own unit, and it comes off stock the moment you save, the way material issued to a fabric run does. Delete on a material line asks first, then puts the quantity back into stock and takes it off the sample's cost.

What does a sample cost, and who sees it?

A sample's total is its sampling cost plus its material at the stock rate.

Sampling cost is one amount you type for labour and outside work such as printing, and anyone can enter it. The owner also sees the material at its stock rate and the total. Staff see no money on a sample except the sampling cost they typed themselves.

How does a sample's cost reach its lot?

Link the sample to the lot it became: tap Became lot on the sample, or From sample on the lot.

One sample links to one lot, and one lot can come from several samples. Once linked, the sample's total shows on the lot's cost summary on a line called Samples. Unlink undoes it, and it asks first because the sample's cost leaves the lot's. A closed lot's cost is frozen, so reopen the lot before you link or unlink. On the Samples tab the owner sees what the samples never linked to any lot have cost: the sampling that has not yet turned into a lot.

What happens when a sample is done?

Tap Mark done and pick the day it was done. From then on the sample is locked, and only its lot link can change.

The done day is today unless you pick an earlier one. It is never a day ahead and never before the sample started. Done samples move under History on the Samples tab, the way closed lots do.

Can I export my samples?

Yes. Export, beside New sample on the Samples tab, downloads every sample and the material each one called in.

It works the same way as Export on the Garment and Fabric tabs. A staff member's export carries no money that Kamna works out.

What if my factory does not record samples?

Put the sampling cost straight on the lot: tap Add cost, choose Other, and type Sampling.

A plan's other costs keep Sampling as a target, so a lot started from a plan still reads its planned sampling against what the samples actually cost.