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Horizontal quality suites are built to inspect everything from circuit boards to sofas. Garment and home-textile teams end up paying for modules they never open — and get a pass/fail gate where they needed a trend line.
Why horizontal software fails garment & home-textile teams
You buy what you don't need
A template designed to fit every industry carries every industry's modules. The price reflects them; your inspectors scroll past them. Meanwhile the textile basics — POM size grids, multi-piece sets, carton assortments, stage-linked production quantities — have to be rebuilt by hand in a generic form designer.
A gate is not a trend
A gated flow asks one question per checkpoint: pass or fail? A measurement creeping toward its tolerance limit passes every time — until the lot that doesn't. Each report is filed and closed; nobody sees the slope.
Side by side
| Horizontal enterprise QA suite | QualityIris | |
|---|---|---|
| Industry focus | Horizontal — one engine for electronics, hardware, toys, furniture and apparel | Apparel and home textiles only — garments, bedding, bath and table linen |
| What you pay for | Bundled modules (vendor onboarding, compliance questionnaires, risk scoring) your floor team may never open | Inspection workflow only: $69/inspector/month; Admin, Manager, Buyer and Factory seats free |
| Measurement specs | Generic numeric fields built in a form designer | Native POM grids across sizes, ± tolerances, decimal-comma and inch fractions, imported from Excel, CSV or PDF |
| Packing | Free-text or custom fields | 2-tier packing: inner sellable pack (single or multi-piece sets) vs master-carton assortment (solid or assorted) |
| Production stages | Flat, unlinked quantities | Textile stage logic: Weaving/Knitting may exceed Required, Cutting may not, downstream stages are capped by Cutting |
| Quality model | Static pass/fail gate at each checkpoint | Continuous drift tracking across inspections, alongside AQL pass/fail |
| Getting started | Sales call, scoping, implementation project | Self-serve sign-up, 14-day trial, no credit card |
The suite column describes the common pattern across horizontal quality platforms, not a single named vendor. Capabilities vary — ask yours directly.
Drift tracking, not static pass/fail gates
AQL pass/fail still decides the shipment. Drift tracking tells you which way the next lot is heading.
Measurement drift
A point of measure can sit inside tolerance on every visit while creeping toward the limit. Iris flags systematic drift and outliers across readings, so pattern or shrinkage issues surface before bulk is finished.
Production drift
Stage-by-stage quantities from every inline visit show where a stage is falling behind the one before it — against the Buyer Delivery Date, not a guess.
Discrepancy drift
Defects are logged per operation and location, so repeat faults from the same operation show up as a pattern instead of isolated tallies.
When an enterprise suite is the better buy
- You inspect many categories beyond textiles — electronics, hard goods, toys — and want one tool for all of them.
- You need supplier onboarding, social-compliance certificate tracking or chemical questionnaires in the same system — we do not offer these today.
- Your IT team requires a vendor-run implementation project and custom ERP integration as part of the purchase.
Built for textiles. Priced in the open.
$69 per inspector per month. Admin, Manager, Buyer and Factory seats are free.
No credit card required.