Tailoring software for thobe, abaya and tailor shops in Qatar

What the Qatar setup gives you

• Currency. QAR, one of 13 currencies in Tailoq. Order screens, the printed order form and the customer link show whole riyals, rounded, with no dirhams. The Accounts screen shows two decimals.
• Tax. The Qatar preset starts with tax set to None, so orders carry no VAT line and the price is the total. If that changes, you switch tax on and set the rate in Settings.
• Working days. Friday is off by default. You can change the days and set one late-opening day, and the fittings calendar warns you before you book on a closed day.
• Units. Centimetres by default, or inches, for the whole shop.
• Payment methods. Card, Cash and Payment link come with the preset, and Bank transfer is on the list too. You record how the customer paid. Tailoq has no payment gateway, so the money goes through your own terminal or provider.
• Language. Arabic with a right-to-left layout, or English, with a one-tap switch.

Tailoq does not convert prices if you change currency later, so set QAR from day one. Dates show in Gregorian format, for example 31/12/2026.

A Qatari thobe order, worked through

Made-up figures, on the Ethnic wear preset (Order placed, Cutting, Stitching, Hand work, Finishing, Ready). A customer orders three thobes at QAR 450 each before Eid.

• Order total: QAR 1,350. With tax set to None there is no VAT to take out.
• Deposit at 50%: QAR 675, leaving QAR 675 at collection.
• Job cost per thobe from fabric issued and hours logged: QAR 260.
• Margin per thobe at Ready: 450 less 260 = QAR 190.

Because there is no VAT in the price, the margin Tailoq shows is the real one. In the Saudi or UAE setup it is worked from a VAT-inclusive price, which is why those pages tell you to take the tax off first.

Thobe orders in sets, and the Eid rush

Men's tailoring shops in Qatar take thobes in sets, and the weeks before Ramadan and Eid are the busiest of the year. In Tailoq one order holds several garments, and each has its own job, due date and stage. Hand over two thobes while the third is still at Stitching, and the order keeps track of all three.

• Measurements for your cut. The Thobe garment type comes with its own fields. Add the ones your cutter takes for a Qatari thobe, such as collar or cuff details. Every save is a new dated set, and the latest sets show side by side with the change in each field, up to four.
• Repeat customers. Next Eid's order starts from the last set, with the old ones kept.
• Customer fabric. Mark it as customer-supplied and nothing leaves your stock.
• Fittings. A week calendar, or a day view on the phone, with a clash check.
• Handover. A photo and the customer's signature on screen, with any balance due shown first.

For the busy weeks, the by-worker board shows who has what, and the due-today view shows what must leave the shop that day.

A link the customer opens to see their order

From an order, staff copy a private link and send it, or open WhatsApp with a Ready or Update message that already carries the link. The customer opens it with no login and sees the order number, each garment with its promised date and current stage, booked fittings and the balance due. The page follows your shop language, so an Arabic shop gives an Arabic, right-to-left page.

The page never shows the customer's name, phone, measurements or prices. Each order has its own link, a new link replaces the old one, and you can turn a link off. Tailors on the workshop screen cannot make links, but when they move a job to the next stage the page updates.

Abaya shops with stock on the rack

On the Boutique with a workshop preset, ready abayas are tracked per style by size and length, so you see that a medium in 56 has sold out even when other mediums are left. Batches are planned by size, with the materials shown before cutting. Crepe goes out by the metre, beads by the gram and crystals by the piece, and issuing is blocked if it would take stock below zero.

At the counter, scan or type the tag. If the customer wants the abaya shorter, enter the length and an alteration job appears in the workshop, marked Free or Charged. Discounts go on at the till: 5%, 10%, 15% or an amount. Read more on our abaya, kandura and thobe page.

VAT and e-invoicing in Qatar today

Qatar has no VAT in force. The General Tax Authority lists the taxes it runs, such as income tax, withholding tax and excise tax, and VAT is not among them. That is why the Qatar preset starts with tax set to None.

On e-invoicing, the Council of Ministers approved a draft e-invoicing law and its draft executive regulations, prepared by the Ministry of Finance with the GTA, according to the cabinet statement published by QNA (Arabic). No start date has been published, so there is nothing to act on yet. Tailoq is not connected to the GTA or any e-invoicing platform.

What Tailoq gives you today: an A5 order form with your legal name, price, discount, deposit and balance. With tax off it prints with the heading INVOICE, not Tax Invoice, and an Arabic shop gets the Arabic heading فاتورة under it. There is also an Accounts screen with supplier bills and payables and a CSV download for your accountant. There is no general ledger. We go through your setup with you in the demo.

Workshop teams, roles and pay

Many Doha workshops have tailors who read different languages. The workshop screen runs in English, Arabic, Urdu, Hindi, Bengali or Tagalog, chosen per person, so one tablet serves the whole bench. Each person picks their name, opens their jobs and uses Start, Pause and Done, then types hours and pieces. Those hours go into the job cost.

Owners and managers give each person a login with a role: owner, manager, sales, workshop or tailor. Tailoq works out 30-day pay by salary, piece rate or commission and exports a plain CSV. See the full feature list, or compare with our pages for Saudi Arabia and the UAE. This page is also in Arabic.