For manufacturers & suppliers
Flence connects verified fashion manufacturers, fabric suppliers, tanneries, print-houses and finishing ateliers with independent designers and emerging brands who need reliable production partners.
Offer your services to hundreds of designers sourcing small-batch production, samples, technical services and manufacturing contracts — and win them with interactive Tech Packs, AI-assisted bespoke quotations and capacity-aware scheduling.
Emerging designers, established independent brands and crowdfunded projects continuously need sampling, production and finishing partners.
Designers on Flence are vetted and often already funded through crowdfunding — reducing wasted quoting time.
Receive structured RFQs (specs, tech packs, quantities, timelines) instead of back-and-forth emails.
Turn a client sketch into an interactive Tech Pack: pin material datasheets and costs, generate AI concept renders, and send a bespoke quotation clients can accept and pay in one click.
Publish your lead times and seasonal availability. Only receive briefs when you can take them, and auto-plan committed jobs around your real capacity.
Publish a verified manufacturer profile — categories, techniques, MOQs, certifications and portfolio of prior work.
Milestone-based manufacturing contracts for designers with Stripe-backed escrow keep both sides safe.
Tap into fashion-forward markets across Italy, France, UK, Germany and the wider European ecosystem.
Flence's fashion production supply chain covers the whole value chain.
Become the go-to sample room for a wave of emerging designers running capsule launches.
Produce the winning run after a designer's fashion startup crowdfunding campaign hits its goal.
Lock in seasonal production contracts with independent designer brands.
Offer pattern making, grading and CLO 3D technical design as a stand-alone service.
Production partners want a steady flow of vetted briefs and reliable payments. Here is how Flence compares.
Connects you with emerging and independent fashion designers needing sampling and small-batch production, under milestone contracts with Stripe escrow.
A high-volume global sourcing marketplace geared to large minimum orders and bulk commodity production.
Adds year-round designer demand, milestone-based contracts, Stripe escrow and crowdfunding fulfilment — so you get vetted briefs and get paid per milestone.
A manufacturer-matching directory that introduces brands to factories.
Delivers a steady flow of vetted fashion designers seeking sampling and production, with contracts and milestone payments built in.
General professional networking — not a channel for receiving sampling and production briefs or handling staged payments.
A Tech Pack is Flence’s AI-assisted technical proposal and quotation. From /tech-packs you attach the client’s sketches, pin numbered material datasheets and costs directly onto the sketch, generate AI concept renders of your material and finish choices, and set your price, MOQ, lead time and an expiry. You send it to a Flence client or to any email as a secure magic link — they review, accept and pay via Stripe with no account needed. Flence’s fee is 20% of the paid quotation.
In the Production Scheduler (/scheduler) you publish your capacity, lead-time range, availability windows and blackout dates on a calendar, and toggle “accepting requests” on or off. Clients then see an “Available to produce” badge on your profile and Discover card. When a Tech Pack is accepted, a production project opens automatically with a client-materials checklist that blocks start until materials are received, plus a per-project chat and an AI planner that sequences jobs against your capacity.
It complements them. Many designers browse Flence year-round for sampling and production partners, beyond the Milan, Paris and NYC trade show calendars.
Listing a manufacturer profile is free. A small success fee applies only on completed contracts processed through the platform.
Projects run under milestone-based manufacturing contracts with Stripe-powered escrow, so you can start production with confidence and get paid on delivery of each milestone.
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