Industries — Brand owners 06

Licensed apparel programs

Producing under someone else's marks means every design has an owner, every territory has a boundary, every term has an end date, and every unit owes a royalty. Getting that wrong is not a pricing mistake — it's a legal one.

The problem

The licence lives in a PDF and the royalties live in a spreadsheet.

Production systems track garments. Licensing obligations get tracked separately, by someone careful, in a file that nobody else can safely touch.

01

Approvals are a chain

Concept, artwork, pre-production sample, packaging. Each with a submission, a response, and a version that must be the one that ships.

02

Rights have edges

A design approved for one channel, one territory and one product category is not approved for the next one, and a sales team can't be expected to hold that in their heads.

03

Royalties accrue per unit

Different rates by property, minimum guarantees to track against, and a quarterly statement that has to reconcile to shipments exactly.


What changes

The licence sits on the product record.

Each property carries its rate, its territories, its approved categories and its term. Products inherit it. When an order is entered against a design outside its approved scope, the system says so before the order is confirmed rather than after it ships.

Royalty accrues automatically as units ship, so a quarterly statement is a report you run, not a weekend you lose. Every approval submission, response and artwork version stays attached to the design with dates and names on it.

  • Approval workflow with submissions, responses and locked approved versions
  • Territory, channel, category and term enforced at order entry
  • Royalty accrual by property with minimum-guarantee tracking
  • Audit trail on every design, every approval and every action the AI takes
Property · Q3 accrual
Royalty rate8.0%
Units shipped42,880
Accrued$61,420
Min. guarantee$75,000
TerritoryCA · US
Term endsIn 94 days
Designs approved31 of 34

Watch it do the job.

Send us one real enquiry — the email, the purchase order, the artwork, the messy bits — and we'll run it through the agents in the first ten minutes of the call. That's a faster argument than anything we could write here.