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Customer Measurements

Customer Measurements is a reusable body-measurement card per customer — eight measurement fields in inches plus a free-form list of size preferences by brand or category — so returning customers do not need to be re-measured for every new stitching order.

📍 Menu path: /garment/measurements

👤 Who uses it: Owner,Manager,Staff

Overview

Each record stores a customer (name and optional phone, with the same live customer search/autocomplete used on Tailoring Orders), eight body measurements — Chest, Waist, Hip, Shoulder, Sleeve, Length, Inseam, Neck, all in inches — free-text Notes, and a list of Size Preferences, each a Brand/Category plus a Size (e.g. "Levis — 32" or "Kurta — M").

Measurement cards only display the specific fields that have a value — an unset field is simply omitted from the card rather than showing a blank or zero, keeping the grid compact for customers who only have a couple of measurements on file.

Size Preferences are added one at a time in the form (type a brand/category and a size, or press Enter, then click + Add) and appear as removable chips before saving; on the saved card they render the same way as read-only tags.

Saving is an upsert keyed on phone number, tenant and store — entering the same phone number again updates that customer's existing record rather than creating a duplicate.

Before You Start

Only Customer Name is required — every measurement field, notes, and size preferences are optional and can be added over multiple visits.
The upsert-by-phone behaviour only applies when a Phone number is entered; saving with no phone number always inserts a new row and can silently create a second unrelated record for someone with the same name.
All measurement inputs accept quarter-inch increments (step 0.25) and are stored in inches only — there is no metric (cm) toggle.

Step-by-Step Guide

1 Save a new customer's measurements

Click + Add Measurement.
Start typing in Customer Name * — pick a match from the dropdown (auto-fills Phone) or type a new name.
Enter Phone if not auto-filled.
Fill in any of the eight Body Measurements (inches) fields — Chest, Waist, Hip, Shoulder, Sleeve, Length, Inseam, Neck — leaving any you do not have blank.
Under Size Preferences, type a Brand / Category (e.g. "Levis") and a Size (e.g. "32"), then press Enter or click + Add to add it as a chip; repeat for as many brands as needed.
Add any Notes (e.g. "prefers loose fit") and click Save Measurements.

2 Update an existing customer's measurements

Find the customer's card (search by name or phone) and click Edit.
Adjust any measurement, add or remove Size Preference chips, or update Notes.
Click Save Measurements — this re-saves against the same phone number, updating the existing record in place rather than creating a new one.

3 Remove a measurement record

Click Del on a customer's card and confirm — this permanently deletes that measurement record.

Every Field & Button, Explained

Field / Button	What it does
`+ Add Measurement`	Opens the blank measurement form.
`Customer Name * / Phone`	Required name with live-search autocomplete against /customers; phone is optional but is also the key used to update an existing record instead of creating a duplicate.
`Chest / Waist / Hip / Shoulder / Sleeve / Length / Inseam / Neck`	Eight optional body measurements, all in inches, quarter-inch increments; only fields with a saved value are shown on the card.
`Size Preferences`	A free-form list of Brand/Category + Size pairs (e.g. "Levis — 32"), added and removed as chips; stored as a JSON array in the sizePrefs column.
`Notes`	Free-text notes, e.g. fit preferences or special cutting instructions.
`Search box`	Filters saved measurement cards by customer name or phone.
`Edit / Del`	Edit opens the form pre-filled with every saved field and size preference; Del permanently deletes the record after a confirmation prompt.
`"Updated" timestamp`	Shown at the bottom of each card, formatted via storeFmt.date from the record's updatedAt value.

Tips & Best Practices

Always capture the phone number when saving measurements — it is what lets you safely re-save updated numbers for the same customer later without creating a duplicate card.
Use Size Preferences for customers who shop specific brands regularly (e.g. always a size 32 in Levis but Large in a local kurta brand) — it saves re-asking every visit and helps staff recommend the right size fast.
Only fill in the measurements you actually need for your typical orders — the card layout is designed to stay compact when some fields are left blank, so there is no downside to a partial record.

Troubleshooting & FAQ

I saved measurements for a returning customer and now see two cards for them.

The upsert-by-phone match only fires when a Phone number was entered on both the original and the new save — if either save was done with the phone field blank, a second, unrelated record is created instead of updating the first. Always enter the phone number to keep one record per customer.

A measurement field I entered isn't showing on the card.

The card only displays fields that have a saved (non-null) value — double-check the value was actually typed into the form before saving; a field left blank is treated as "not recorded," not zero.

Size Preferences chip won't add when I click + Add.

Both the Brand/Category and Size fields must be filled in — the Add button silently does nothing if either is empty or only whitespace.

The measurements are showing in the wrong unit.

All values are stored and displayed in inches only; there is no centimetre option on this page — convert manually if you measured in metric.