Dressmaker money: off-rack sales and commission payment

This silent 1:52 tutorial follows one off-rack design through selected cutting, attachment and sewing steps, the photo preview, an actual sale offer and payment, then the return to an unfinished commission. Recorded October 27, 2026, Mac Build 447.804bb8a. Repeated cuts and sewing passes are omitted; prepared stages and held results are labelled.

In our existing test save, Create New Dress became available after one completed Rose handover. That save began by skipping the initial tutorial; it was not a clean-new-game unlock test. The new page explicitly said Off rack dress. Check the label in your own book rather than assuming a fixed commission count.

We selected Kimono Bodice, No Sleeves and Pencil Skirt, then drafted using saved Rose measurements. We later accepted and measured Prudence’s Flamboyant Funeral and left it undrafted. Pressing A from Prudence’s page returned to our off-rack draft before making it.

Measure and fit the draft before cutting

We cut and collected all 12 panels from owned Charcoal Cotton, attached them to the mannequin and sewed their pins with Sewing Assist already enabled. The video shows selected actions, with the other repeated placements and passes omitted.

After the last pass, Sewing Complete and Finish Dress appeared. Finish Dress opened the photo view; Take Photo opened the preview with Keep working and Sell As Off-Rack.

Watch the full cutting and collection controls

Find remaining pins and use Sewing Assist

Our offer showed Materials 13, Labour 18, Quality Bonus 144%, Prestige Bonus 101% and Sell Price 45. Confirming Sell returned us to the shop. Opening the book showed 631 coins, compared with 586 before the sale: an increase of 45 matching the offer.

Those values belong to one dress at Rank 1. We used existing stock and made no new material purchase during this design, so 45 is sale revenue, not a measured net profit. We did not test free Burlap or establish a universal pricing formula.

1. In the photo preview, choose Sell As Off-Rack to open the offer.
2. Read the displayed Sell Price before confirming Sell.
3. After the sale, check the balance in the book.

Opening the book after selling returned directly to Prudence’s Flamboyant Funeral; no page-turn key was needed. The commission remained undrafted at Quality 0/75, Elegant 0/65 and Glamour 0/40, with Avoid Black and Reward 300. The black off-rack dress was a separate design.

Read the customer name and requirements before starting the next dress. If your book opens elsewhere, use the separate navigation guide; this sale test does not establish recovery for a deleted commission or missing save.

Find the correct unfinished commission in the book

The official description supports customer commissions and selling your own pre-made designs. Prodigy Gamers and TreyexGaming place the off-rack unlock after three dresses, NoobFeed after the third quest, and AllThings.How after the first few commissions. Steam reports differ: one player who revisited a new save says it was available after Rose’s tutorial dress. Kingy has not independently established the unlock threshold. Look for the off-rack page or tab in your sketchbook before planning a sale.

AllThings.How and TreyexGaming both build the price from materials and labour, then multiply it by a quality bonus of up to 150% and a Prestige bonus that rises with your rank. NoobFeed also treats quality and Prestige as multipliers. This is player-derived, not a developer formula; check the Sell window in your build.

Build 443 renames the photo-scene Sell button to “Sell as off-rack” and adds a sketchbook button to delete off-rack dresses. Before you confirm, open Sell to see the offer. TreyexGaming says you can cancel without selling, and AllThings.How suggests comparing the offer with what the materials cost. Take care not to confirm by accident.

Kingy checked this on Build 447 with Rose’s first commission, which lists Reward 200. Our dress finished at Quality 58 against her 60. Complete Commission warned that she might be unhappy; we confirmed, and the coin counter rose from 386 to 586, the whole 200.

That is one delivery, not a payment formula. A dress further below target, or above it, may pay differently. The developer also fixed a payment issue in Build 403, stated as paying for an accepted commission even when it failed. Update first if a delivered dress pays nothing.

Players in the Budget vs spending discussion request a clearer comparison between the brief and purchases. As a practical workaround, note the starting balance and purchases for one dress. This is Kingy’s bookkeeping suggestion, not a claimed in-game tool or profit formula.