Plan With the Production Calendar

See Your Schedule at a Glance

The Production Calendar lays your jobs out by their production date so you can plan the week or month instead of reacting to it. Instead of scrolling a list, you see jobs laid out by date, making it easy to spot busy days, gaps in the schedule, and deadlines that are creeping up.

Read the Calendar

1. Open Production → Calendar from the dashboard.
2. Each job appears on its calculated production date, not its due date. Drip Merch works that date out from when the order was created plus the turnaround days configured on its decoration method. If a job has a manual production date override, that wins. The order's due date is used only as a last resort, when the method has no turnaround configured.
3. Event colors come from the decoration method, not from order statuses, and the small chip on an event shows the per-method production workflow stage. Order statuses are not used on this calendar.

Plan Your Week

1. Scan for days that are stacked with due dates and rebalance work earlier if you can.
2. Identify busy days and clusters of jobs landing in the same week.
3. Use what you see to prioritize check-ins, ordering, and decorating so nothing lands late.

Keep Deadlines Honest

1. Set accurate turnaround days on each decoration method. That, not the due date, is what positions a job on the calendar. Use a production date override on individual jobs that need a different date.
2. Move jobs through production stages as work happens, and the calendar stays current automatically.
3. Cross-check the calendar against the production board to make sure the jobs due soonest are the ones actually in progress.

The calendar is your capacity-planning tool: pair it with the production board and order statuses to keep the whole shop pointed at on-time delivery.