Why operators switch

Same industry, different decade.

Most dry-cleaning software was built before the smartphone. Magnoli is built for the operator who already runs a multi-channel business and expects their tools to keep up.

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From the founder

When I took over my family's business, we had two locations and I was doing everything — fixing equipment, cleaning clothes, doing alterations, making deliveries, handling customer service.

I never imagined I'd be running 120+ people across 15 locations.

Along the way, I lived every frustration operators know: no time to hold people accountable, losing top performers I couldn't properly recognize, evenings lost to admin, pulling data from different systems just to get a read on the business.

I grew up in this industry. I respect everyone in it. It's how my parents provided for our family — and how I provide for mine.

That's why I built Magnoli, named after my daughter Magnolia. It's not just a business. It's our legacy.

Justin Koh

Side by side

Magnoli vs. SMRT vs. Xplor Spot

The full operating system, side by side. Use this as a starting point — then verify with each vendor before you sign anything.

Point of sale & workflows

  1. Retail workflows built for fast, accurate counter service

    Magnoli
    SMRT
    Xplor Spot

  2. Pickup and delivery workflows for modern route-based operations

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    SMRT
    Xplor Spot

  3. Route optimization to improve driver efficiency and service reliability

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    SMRT
    Xplor Spot

  4. Order fulfillment visibility from intake through production, assembly, delivery, and return

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    SMRT
    Xplor Spot

  5. Customer portal for order tracking, pickup and delivery requests, subscriptions, and order history

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    SMRT
    Xplor Spot

  6. Dedicated wholesale workflows with separate customer-facing display prices and invoiced prices, no workarounds required

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    Xplor Spot

  7. Dedicated outsourced service workflows for third-party processing

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    Xplor Spot

  8. Tailor-built alteration workflows designed around real alteration operations

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    Xplor Spot

  9. Automation integrations for assembly, bagging, dispatch, kiosks, and lockers included at no extra cost

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    SMRT
    Xplor Spot

Production tracking & workflows

  1. Production stations by job type

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    Xplor Spot

  2. Labor forecasts based on volume by business segment and garment type from expected production metrics

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  3. Production leaderboards with accountability metrics such as inactivity time

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    Xplor Spot

  4. Production tracking by business segment to understand labor cost per segment or per item

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  5. Spanish-ready production workflows for front-line teams

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Employee management

  1. Production accountability by employee, station, activity, item, and business segment

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    Xplor Spot

  2. Operations-linked time tracking and hour export

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  3. Robust scheduling interface by location, position, and business segment

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  4. Real-time shift alerts for employees and managers

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  5. Time approvals with schedule variance, labor cost, production context, flags, and KPIs

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  6. Integrated PTO requests and approvals

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  7. HR compliance, employee records, compensation history, and data-driven performance reviews

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Marketing & communications

  1. Automated order notifications that keep customers informed at every step

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  2. Configurable promotions, discounts, and coupons

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  3. Trigger-based email and SMS campaigns for promotions, engagement, and retention

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  4. Native reputation management built directly into the customer experience

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  5. Live customer segmentation using operational, order, customer, and behavior data

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Business intelligence & financials

  1. Native accounts receivable with invoice reporting, aging tracking, and Google Sheets connectivity

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  2. Integrated reporting across sales, labor, production, payments, customer engagement, accounting, and AR

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    Xplor Spot

  3. Unified reporting layer connecting labor, production, sales, customer, revenue, and financial data

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  4. Campaign performance reporting for ROAS, promotion effectiveness, and customer behavior

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  5. Contract and period-of-performance invoicing for wholesale, valet, and business accounts

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Platform foundation

  1. Operator-proven foundation built inside one of the largest dry cleaning businesses in the United States

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  2. Modern cloud-native architecture built for scale, speed, modularity, and native AI

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  3. Unified operating platform that eliminates fragmented workflows and bolt-ons

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Implementation & customer success

  1. Immersive onboarding with company-specific sandbox data, training, and on-site support

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  2. Frictionless migration designed to preserve continuity and get teams live quickly

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  3. Dedicated success partner from sale through implementation and ongoing support

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    Xplor Spot

  4. Operator-led product improvement with rapid weekly releases and continuous feedback loops

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Pricing, payments & ecosystem

  1. Unlimited stations and users per location with no station-based upcharges and no upcharges for any of the native capabilities listed above

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    SMRT
    Xplor Spot

  2. Modern payments with Ingenico, Stripe, Clover, and flexible merchant provider options

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  3. Open partner ecosystem with secure, vetted integrations, no exclusivity, and direct collaboration with software and service partners

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Where we fit

How operators arrive at Magnoli

  1. If you've outgrown SMRT…

    SMRT did the heavy lifting of bringing the dry-cleaning industry into POS-driven workflows. The trade-off today: aging UX, slow rollout of new features, and reporting that lags the floor. If you're patching SMRT with spreadsheets and a separate route app, that's the gap Magnoli closes.

  2. If you're evaluating Xplor Spot…

    Spot grew out of a broader field-service portfolio, which means dry-cleaning isn't its only audience. The result is a competent generalist. Magnoli is the specialist — the floor, the route, and the back office are first-class, not modules added on.

  3. If you're on a homegrown stack…

    Plenty of operators run on a stitched-together stack of POS + spreadsheet + route app + accounting plugin. It works until it doesn't. Magnoli replaces the stack with one source of truth, then automates the manual reconciliation that ate your Sundays.

Principles

The three things we won't compromise

  1. 01

    Operator-first, not generalist

    Every screen ships through a real operator. If a counter manager wouldn't use it on a Saturday morning, it doesn't ship.

  2. 02

    Intelligence as table stakes

    AI isn't a marketing checkbox. It's how Magnoli answers: where is margin going, who is leaving, where does the plant slow down, what should the team do next.

  3. 03

    Transparent on purpose

    Public pricing, exportable data, a public roadmap. Operators have been burned by black-box vendors. We're building the opposite.

Ready when you are

One platform to run your entire operation

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