Setting it up
Go to Settings → Detailing Pricing → Lot Config and edit a configuration. There is a new field, Daily Production Capacity.
A configuration must have a piece limit, a daily production capacity, or both. Setting the capacity to 0 turns the display off for that configuration.
The configuration's existing agent and department conditions decide which orders it applies to — this uses the same priority matcher as lots, so no new rules to learn. If no configuration matches an order, staff see no capacity at all and the calendar behaves exactly as it does today.
What the number means:
Each item counts its item type's production value multiplied by its pieces.
Item types default to a production value of 1, so unless someone has deliberately set production values under Pricing, this is simply a piece count — enter 450 and you are budgeting 450 pieces a day.
If you have configured production values, the budget is weighted by them: a coat at 2.5 consumes two and a half times what a shirt at 1 does.
What staff see:
On the New Order box (Dry Cleaning tab) and in Change Due Date, each day on the calendar shows its fill percentage underneath the date.
A configuration capped at 20. The 25th is full at 100 percent and shows red; the 26th is at 90 percent and shows yellow. Days with nothing booked show a muted 0, and days before today show no figure at all.
Full days are still selectable. This is a soft limit — it steers the choice, it does not block it. Staff can always override, and nothing stops an order going onto a red day.
When an order spans several departments, the most constrained one wins: the day shows the highest fill percentage of any configuration that applies.
What counts, and what doesn't
Only detailed items count. Capacity counts garments, and garments only exist once an order has been detailed. An order taken at the counter this morning contributes nothing to its due date until the plant details it — usually that evening or the next morning.
So the number under-reports by roughly one day's intake, and it under-reports most on the nearest dates, which are the ones staff book most often. If your plant details same-day the gap is small; if orders sit overnight, expect the next day or two to read lower than reality.
This matches the existing Production Commitment report, which also only counts orders in production.
Other things that do not count:
Orders already completed — once an order is out of production it stops consuming capacity
Voided items
Special care production values — only the item type's own value counts, so the figure will not match production-value reports at a business that has set them
Anything due before today
Effect on lots
A configuration with a capacity but no piece limit does not create lots at all. It exists to budget a day's work, not to batch it — so it produces no lot number, no lot receipt, nothing on the assembly ticket, and nothing in the Batched Lot Control screen.
A configuration with both a piece limit and a capacity behaves exactly as it does today: it still batches, still prints lot receipts, still appears in Batched Lot Control, and additionally contributes to the capacity display.