What we're building

Where GhostLight is heading

What has just landed, what's being worked on now, and what we're still thinking about.

Just landed

In the app now

Recent work, already in your hands rather than planned. Most of it is on every plan including the free one — the couple of things that need Pro are marked.

  • Subtypes
    A second level under each category, so a costume can be a dress, a jacket or a pair of boots, and a prop can be set dressing rather than a hand prop. Every list is yours to edit — rename, reorder, or add your own.
  • Labels and QR tags you can actually print
    Avery sheet templates that line up, the option to start partway down a part-used sheet, and support for continuous label rolls. Scan a tag and that item opens on your phone.
  • Borrowing between theatres Pro
    Share your catalogue with groups you trust, request what you need, approve or decline item by item, and get a packing list for the pickup. Both sides can see what's out and when it's due home.
  • Pull lists
    Gather everything for a production as you find it, then submit the lot in one go rather than item by item. Your own store on any plan; partner groups once you're on Pro.
  • Bookings, reservations and a waitlist
    Book something for dates in the future, not just take it off the shelf today. If it's already out, join the queue and you'll hear when it's free.

Being built

Underway

Designed and started. It should land in a reasonable timeframe, though we're not going to put a month on it.

  • Linking related items
    Three things wardrobe staff keep asking for: the same costume in other colours, the same costume in other sizes, and separate pieces that make up an outfit. Each item stays entirely its own record — own stock, own condition, checked out on its own — but the item page should show you what else goes with it.

Thinking about

Not promised

Ideas we like the look of. None of these is committed, none is scheduled, and some may never be built. They're here so you can see what's on our minds — and tell us if we've got the order wrong.

  • Editing lots of items at once
    Change a location, a condition or a show across a whole selection in one action.
  • Working with no signal
    Plenty of storage rooms have no reception. Being able to scan and check things out backstage and have it catch up later would help.
  • An activity history
    Who changed what, and when. Useful when something's been renamed or moved and nobody remembers doing it.
  • Two-factor sign-in
    For groups who'd like a second layer on accounts that can edit the whole catalogue.
  • Your own category icons
    Small thing. Pick the icon for the categories you've invented, instead of the stand-in we give you.

Think we've got it wrong?

Most of what's on this page came from someone in a wardrobe room saying "it'd be good if…". If something you need is missing, or something here looks like a waste of effort, we'd rather hear it now than after it's built.

Tell us what you need