We rolled out LS Central for Fashion across 18 boutiques and our e-commerce site in twelve months. The pilot store stabilised in two weeks; the rest cut over at two boutiques per week, weekends never compromised. The same team that scoped the deal is still on the quarterly merchandise review two years later.
Run your fashion brand on live size, style and sell-through data — not last week’s buying-room intuition.
LS Central for Fashion · size-colour matrix · season master · Power BI sell-through · Retail Co-Pilot AI — built and run by one Microsoft Solutions Partner and LS Retail Diamond Partner — 5 consecutive years. Delivered across UAE, KSA, India and USA.
Every fashion format Novasoft configures LS Central for Fashion for.
From single-brand boutiques to multi-brand fashion houses, franchise retailers, factory outlets and digital-native drops — same LS Central for Fashion platform, format-specific configuration.
Most fashion retailers buy by intuition and discount by panic — because the data never gets to the buying room in time.
Every fashion brand that has ever bought a POS and been disappointed shares the same problem: the POS, the size-colour matrix, the season planner, the e-commerce platform and the buying-room spreadsheet are five separate systems loosely stitched together by overnight exports. Halfway through the season the buyer knows a dress is selling but doesn’t know which sizes broke. The merchandiser knows revenue is down but doesn’t know whether it’s the colour, the price-point or the visual merchandising. The end-of-season clearance is decided in a meeting, not by the data — because the data hasn’t caught up to the day yet.
What Novasoft does differently starts at the data layer. LS Central for Fashion runs on top of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central as a single unified platform. One style master with full size-colour-fit matrix. One season planner. One customer record across in-store, online and clientelling. The POS at the till, the visual-merchandising team, the e-commerce site, the buying room and the financials all read from the same database — not separate exports.
On top of that single-source-of-truth, Novasoft layers Microsoft Fabric analytics for sell-through and size-curve dashboards, Retail Co-Pilot for natural-language buying-room queries, Power Automate for store-to-DC-to-supplier workflows, and LS Commerce with endless-aisle order-anywhere fulfilment — all built on the same Microsoft tenant. One platform. One partner. One contract.
Four steps — from buying room to live tills in your first boutique.
Every fashion engagement starts in a real store with a real season cycle. The POS is configured around how your team actually buys, plans and sells — not how an LS Retail template assumes they do.
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Week 0 · 60 minutes · free
Buying-room & store audit
Walk-through of one of your boutiques + a buying-room session. POS pain points, size-colour matrix maturity, season planning cycle, RFID/inventory accuracy, clientelling capability, e-commerce integration and any current ERP. Written audit + LS Central for Fashion readiness scorecard inside 5 business days.
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Week 1–4 · design
Architect & configure
Style hierarchy and size-colour matrix design, season and collection master, visual merchandising tags, multi-brand POS persona, clientelling schema, RFID tag-reader configuration, multi-currency and Arabic POS. Integration design for payment gateways, e-commerce and any third-party tools.
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Week 4–12 · build & UAT
Build pilot store
First 1-3 pilot boutiques configured end-to-end. POS terminals, RFID readers, label printers and clientelling tablets certified. Staff training (sales associate, stylist, visual merchandiser, store manager, area manager). UAT with your team running real transactions on real product on a sandbox tenant before go-live.
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Week 12–16+ · pilot go-live + roll-out
Cut over & scale
Pilot boutique cuts over with on-site Novasoft team during a planned closure (typically mid-week, away from weekend trade). Two weeks of hypercare. Then the validated template rolls out across your chain at 2-3 boutiques per week. Hand-over into NovaCare 360° for 24/7 POS uptime — because peak Friday evening trade is not when you find out the POS is down.
Six platforms — one Microsoft+LS Retail fashion-retail architecture.
Every block runs on the same tenant. The POS, the style master, the season planner, the clientelling tablet, the e-commerce site and the buying room all share the same data spine.
LS Central for Fashion
Right for you when · size-colour mix on the POS doesn’t match the buying roomThe fashion POS, size-colour matrix, season and collection master, RFID-driven inventory, promotion engine, clientelling and loyalty — all running natively inside Business Central. Bilingual Arabic-English POS, RFID tag scanning, mobile clientelling tablets, FTA-compliant VAT receipts (tax.gov.ae) and offline-resilient store servers for peak Friday-evening trade.
LS Central practiceBusiness Central ERP
Right for you when · finance and operations need one source of truthThe ERP back-office every LS Central for Fashion tenant sits on top of. Collection planning, style and variant master, vendor and supplier master, open-to-buy budgeting, AP/AR, general ledger, multi-entity consolidation and statutory VAT — all reading the same style and customer data the POS writes. The buying room and the till see the same numbers.
Business Central practiceOmnichannel commerce
Right for you when · endless aisle and ship-from-store fail at peakLS Commerce extends the LS Central for Fashion platform with a customer-facing online store that shares the same style master, the same loyalty record and the same promotion engine as the in-store POS. Endless-aisle order-anywhere, ship-from-store, return-anywhere, click-and-collect and pop-up activations all work because they read from the same database.
eCommerce practicePower BI on Microsoft Fabric
Right for you when · the CEO and COO use different numbersFashion sell-through dashboards built on Microsoft Fabric Lakehouse ingesting LS Central sales, BC financials and LS Commerce orders. Direct Lake Power BI for sub-second refresh on store sell-through, size-curve analysis, margin per style, sell-through-to-discount slope, end-of-season clearance modeling and visual-merchandising A/B tests. One semantic model, one set of business rules.
Analytics practiceRetail Co-Pilot for Fashion
Right for you when · the buyer asks IT the same size-curve questions every MondayNovasoft’s fashion variant of Retail Co-Pilot — a Copilot Studio agent grounded in your LS Central sales data via Microsoft Fabric. Natural-language queries: “Which stores have broken sizes on the SS collection?”, “Show me styles with the worst margin sell-through this week”, “Compare last 3 markdown cycles by collection.” Deployable in Microsoft Teams, Outlook and WhatsApp Business.
Retail Co-PilotPower Automate workflows
Right for you when · replenishment and supplier returns run on emailWorkflow automation between store, DC, supplier and buying room on the same tenant. Size-curve replenishment alerts, end-of-day cash reconciliation, RFID stock-count discrepancy reports, supplier return-to-vendor automation, vendor invoice auto-matching against BC purchase orders, end-of-season clearance pricing rules. The same BPA team that built the ERP wires the flows on top of it.
BPA practiceFour AI capabilities that change how a fashion brand runs season-to-season.
Generic dashboards tell you what happened last week — halfway through a season that’s already 70% sold. AI tells you what is about to happen, which sizes are about to break, which styles will need clearance and which customer will buy that piece for full price next Wednesday. All grounded in your real LS Central for Fashion + BC data.
Conversational buying-room insights
Retail Co-Pilot · Copilot Studio agent · LS Central dataBuyers and merchandisers ask their phone, in plain English (or Arabic), “Which styles broke size 38 last week?” — and get back a per-style answer with the recommended replenishment, transfer or markdown action. Replaces the Monday-morning buying-room meeting cycle. Deployable in Microsoft Teams or as a WhatsApp bot for buying-trip use.
Retail Co-PilotSize-curve & sell-through forecasting
Azure Machine Learning · historical sales · trend · weatherAzure ML models trained on your historical sell-through, size break-points, weather data and trend signals to predict size-curve demand and sell-through-to-discount slope at style-store-week granularity. Feeds LS Central replenishment, transfer and markdown engines directly — no separate planning spreadsheet, no panic discounting at end of season.
AI SolutionsClientelling & stylist recommendation
Customer Insights · style affinity · personalised pulls · birthdaysDynamics 365 Customer Insights + Microsoft Fabric semantic models build customer profiles based on style affinity, size, brand preference, basket composition, fitting-room behaviour and life-event signals. Personalised “pull” suggestions land on the clientelling tablet before the stylist greets the customer. The right piece, to the right customer, before they ask.
Customer InsightsReturns analytics & fraud detection
Pattern detection · serial returner · ticket-swap riskPattern-detection models on LS Central return logs surface serial-returner behaviour, ticket-swap risk, “wardrobing” patterns (buy-wear-return) and refund stacking by customer, store and shift. Quiet, evidence-based, audit-trail-friendly — the loss-prevention team sees real cases, the genuine customer never sees friction.
AI SolutionsFour things that stop going wrong after an LS Central for Fashion go-live.
Specific, verifiable changes Novasoft fashion customers report in the first season after pilot store cut-over.
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Stop ending the season with broken sizes
Live LS Central size-curve data, AI-driven replenishment, transfer suggestions between stores before sizes break, and clientelling pulls before the customer realises their size is gone. Typical sell-through at full price on A-class styles moves from 55-65% to 72-82% within the first season of LS Central for Fashion live.
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Stop running the buying meeting on last-week’s spreadsheet
Live Power BI fashion dashboards reading Fabric Direct Lake. Style sell-through, size curves, full-price vs markdown contribution, sell-through-to-discount slope and visual-merchandising A/B test results refresh in seconds. The buying meeting runs on what happened today, not what shipped last Monday.
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Stop discounting by panic at end of season
LS Central markdown engine + Fabric attribution model + Retail Co-Pilot recommendation = a markdown plan that maximises gross margin instead of clearing inventory at any cost. Every style has a recommended markdown schedule by week-on-week sell-through. The clearance season stops eating 4-6 points of full-year margin and starts protecting it.
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Stop losing margin to returns fraud and wardrobing
AI pattern-detection models scan LS Central return logs nightly. Serial returners, ticket-swap patterns, wardrobing (buy-wear-return) and refund stacking surface with full audit trail. Typical first-season returns-fraud reduction reported by Novasoft fashion customers: 0.4-1.1 percentage points off net revenue — without adding any friction at the till for genuine customers.
Luxury fashion in the Gulf running on LS Central SaaS — read the full story.
SOHO Middle East — the Dubai-based luxury fashion house behind IRO Paris, Amiri and Cotton Citizen — partnered with Novasoft to go live on LS Central SaaS and Business Central across all Dubai and Abu Dhabi stores in just four months. Their full deployment story is published on LS Retail’s customer directory.
“LS Central’s scalable approach to our business needs and its seamless integration with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central helped us improve efficiency and gave us the ability to refine our operations.”
One fashion technology team across four delivery centres.
Novasoft delivers fashion and apparel retail technology projects from four delivery centres — UAE, Saudi Arabia, India and the USA — as part of the broader Digital Transformation practice. The same LS Retail Diamond Partner team is on every engagement regardless of where the customer sits. KSA fashion projects run through the local Novasoft entity for on-site boutique cutovers; UAE, India and USA cover remote and hybrid delivery across Gulf, Indian-subcontinent and North-American business hours.
- UAE — Novasoft FZCO base. Customer-facing engagement lead for Gulf multi-brand fashion houses, franchise retailers and outlet groups.
- Saudi Arabia — local Novasoft entity. On-site pilot-store cutovers for KSA fashion brands and department stores.
- India — primary engineering centre. Deep LS Central, BC, Fabric, Power BI and Retail Co-Pilot consulting depth.
- USA — Novasoft USA Inc. North-American fashion customers; East-coast time-zone alignment for AMER roll-outs.

What fashion brands say after an LS Central for Fashion go-live with Novasoft.
Edited excerpts from Novasoft customer references published on the homepage and the LS Retail partner directory. Every reference is contactable on request during the scoping workshop.
Before Novasoft, end-of-season clearance was a panic with a 6-point margin hit. With LS Central for Fashion + Power BI sell-through, we now have markdown recommendations style-by-style two weeks before the season ends. Margin protection: 3.1 points in the first full season.
Retail Co-Pilot replaced two weekly buying-room meetings. Our buyers ask it size-curve and sell-through questions in WhatsApp during the buying trip; they don’t wait for IT or the analyst team. Mid-season interventions actually happen mid-season — not at the end-of-season clearance review.
Every product Novasoft implements, integrates and runs for fashion retail.
All products run on one Microsoft tenant. LS Retail Diamond Partner credentials on LS Central and LS Commerce. Microsoft Solutions Partner credentials on Business Central, Fabric, Power BI, Power Automate, Copilot Studio and Azure.
The fashion-tech partner that’s an LS Retail Diamond Partner five years running.
Microsoft Solutions Partner
Active Microsoft Solutions Partner — Business Applications credential. Consultants certified across Business Central, Power Platform, Fabric and Copilot Studio.
Microsoft practice
LS Retail Diamond Partner — 5 yrs
5 consecutive years (2022–2026) at the highest LS Retail partner tier. Verifiable on the LS Retail partner directory. Same team scopes, builds, runs.
LS Retail practiceFashion go-live → NovaCare 360°
At go-live, the LS Central for Fashion tenant, BC back-office, RFID infrastructure and Fabric Lakehouse hand over into NovaCare 360° — 24/7 POS uptime monitoring (because Friday-evening trade is non-negotiable), LS Retail release-wave readiness, RFID tag-reader health and quarterly merchandise performance reviews.
Explore NovaCare 360°Nine fashion add-ons that ship on top of the LS Central tenant.
Practice-built extensions Novasoft layers on the standard LS Central for Fashion + Business Central stack — covering franchise portal, brand consolidation, click-and-collect, endless aisle, returns automation, ZATCA compliance and bilingual e-receipts. Listed on Microsoft AppSource where applicable, deployed on the same tenant as the core ERP, supported under the same NovaCare 360° contract.
NOVAHUB franchise portal
Self-service portal for fashion franchise partners and concession brands — live stock visibility, replenishment requests, AR aging, sell-through reporting and document upload. Cuts the inbound “where is my order” queue, gives franchisees the channel multi-brand groups have always wanted.
NOVAHUBEndless-aisle for boutiques
Order-anywhere, ship-from-store, return-anywhere flow on top of LS Commerce + LS Central for Fashion. The size you don’t have in the boutique — ship from the warehouse or another store, same item master, same loyalty record.
Endless aisleLS Forecast for fashion
LS Retail’s AI demand-forecasting module configured for fashion seasonality — style-store-week sell-through, size-curve break points and end-of-season clearance modeling. Feeds LS Central’s replenishment, transfer and markdown engines directly.
LS Retail practiceReturns & markdown automation
Configurable returns flow with fraud-pattern flags, refund-routing rules per channel, and automated markdown cadence tied to sell-through thresholds. End-of-season clearance happens by rule, not by panic email.
Returns flowNOVAREQ buying requisition
Microsoft AppSource-listed requisition management for Business Central — buyers raise OTB (open-to-buy) requisitions on Power Apps mobile, head-office approval workflow, automatic PO generation in BC. Replaces the email-and-spreadsheet buying cycle.
NOVAREQ on AppSourceWhatsApp Bill for fashion
Bilingual Arabic-English digital receipt delivered over WhatsApp Business at the boutique till. FTA-compliant under tax.gov.ae, drops the printer roll, lifts loyalty enrolment at the cashier prompt and ties every receipt back to the LS Central transaction record for size-exchange & return lookup.
WhatsApp BillRetail Co-Pilot for fashion
Novasoft IP — Copilot Studio agent grounded in LS Central for Fashion sales data. Buyers and store managers ask plain-language questions in WhatsApp or Teams (“which styles broke size 8 this week?”) and get back per-SKU answers with recommended actions.
Retail Co-PilotZATCA Connector for KSA
KSA e-invoicing connector for LS Central + Business Central — FATOORA-compliant invoice signing, QR-coded simplified-tax receipts and clearance/reporting flow against the Saudi tax-authority portal. Ships pre-configured for fashion-retail VAT scenarios.
KSA e-invoicingLoyalty Pro for fashion
LS Central Loyalty configured for fashion — member tiers, birthday triggers, VIP-stylist routing, first-look access to drops and store-of-record attribution for omnichannel campaigns. Personalised offers push back into LS Central’s loyalty engine for in-store and online redemption.
Loyalty ProFour pre-built fashion connectors — out of the box.
Shopify integration
Two-way connector between LS Central for Fashion / Business Central and Shopify — style master, size matrix, stock levels, prices, promotions and orders sync against your live tenant. Useful when the brand team owns Shopify but operations runs on BC.
Klaviyo / Mailchimp
CRM segment sync from LS Central + Customer Insights to Klaviyo or Mailchimp for fashion-brand email marketing — RFM segments, VIP tiers, lapsed-buyer lists and drop-pre-launch audiences refresh nightly from the live transaction data.
Container & logistics tracking
Inbound shipment visibility on top of BC — container reference, port, customs status, expected delivery and warehouse-receipt linkage. Critical for fashion groups importing seasonal collections at scale across UAE, KSA and India.
Credit-card reconciliation
Automates the daily boutique-POS-to-acquirer-to-bank reconciliation grind — cards, schemes, chargebacks and merchant fees reconciled against LS Central transactions and BC bank journals. Cuts the finance team’s end-of-day from an hour to minutes.
Run a real buying-room & store-tech audit with the team that built 80+ fashion deployments.
No sales deck. No pressure. Tell us what’s breaking in your boutiques today — we’ll walk through your POS, your size-curve data, your buying room and your e-commerce in 60 minutes, and give you a written LS Central for Fashion readiness scorecard inside 5 business days. Free, even if you never sign with us.
One form. One reply. No sales chase.
Tell us your fashion format, current POS and what’s breaking. A Novasoft LS Retail consultant — not an SDR — will be in touch within one business day to book the on-site or remote fashion-tech audit.
- Reply within one business day — from the consultant, not a queue
- Written LS Central for Fashion readiness scorecard in 5 business days of the audit, even if you don’t sign
- LS Retail Diamond Partner + Microsoft Solutions Partner, refreshed annually
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Honest answers to the questions every fashion technology project starts with.
What technology stack does Novasoft deliver for fashion and apparel retail?
LS Central for Fashion as the POS with size-colour-style matrix and season master; Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central as the ERP back-office with collection planning and open-to-buy; LS Commerce for the omnichannel online store with endless-aisle; Microsoft Fabric with Power BI semantic models for sell-through and size-curve analytics; Retail Co-Pilot for Fashion for natural-language buying-room queries; Azure ML for trend forecasting and personalised recommendation; RFID and returns-fraud detection. One Microsoft Solutions Partner team builds and runs the entire stack.
Why LS Central for fashion retail?
LS Central for Fashion runs on top of Business Central as a unified platform — POS with size-colour matrix, season master, RFID-based inventory, clientelling, promotions, markdowns, loyalty and back-office accounting all share the same style and customer record. No POS-to-ERP integration to maintain. No reconciliation gap between what the till sees, what the buyer sees and what finance sees. For fashion brands with seasonal cycles, multi-brand portfolios and size-curve complexity, this single-platform model is the difference between a brand that protects margin at end of season and one that doesn’t.
How long does a fashion LS Central rollout take?
A 1–3 boutique pilot typically goes live in 12–16 weeks: assessment and design (3–4 weeks), build and configure (5–7 weeks), UAT (2 weeks), pilot boutique cutover (1–2 weeks, mid-week) and hypercare (2 weeks). Subsequent boutique roll-outs are 1–2 weeks per store using the validated template. A 40-boutique fashion brand typically completes full roll-out in 8–12 months. Novasoft has a documented playbook for parallel multi-boutique roll-outs that runs 3–5 boutiques per week once the template is validated.
Does Novasoft handle Arabic POS, RFID and UAE/KSA payment gateways?
Yes. LS Central for Fashion is configured for bilingual Arabic-English POS, receipts, style descriptions and clientelling tablets as standard on every UAE and KSA fashion deployment. RFID tag readers, mobile POS, FTA-compliant VAT receipts (tax.gov.ae) and Arabic-first loyalty are part of the standard build. Payment gateway integration covers PayFort, Telr, MasterCard MPGS, AmEx, Apple Pay, Samsung Pay and Tabby (BNPL) for in-store; PayFort and Stripe for the online channel.
What AI capabilities does Novasoft bring to fashion retail?
Four layers. Retail Co-Pilot for Fashion — a Copilot Studio agent grounded in LS Central sales data that answers natural-language questions about size-curve breaks, sell-through, markdown plans and visual-merchandising effectiveness. Azure ML models for style-store-week sell-through and trend forecasting. Customer Insights for clientelling, style-affinity segmentation and personalised “pulls”. Pattern-detection models for returns fraud and wardrobing. All grounded in the customer’s actual data via Microsoft Fabric, never generic templates.
What ongoing support does Novasoft provide after a fashion LS Central go-live?
NovaCare 360° — SLA-backed managed support for the LS Central for Fashion tenant, BC integration, POS & RFID endpoints, Fabric Lakehouse refresh schedules, Power BI workspace governance and Microsoft + LS Retail release-wave readiness. 24/7 POS uptime monitoring with same-team escalation, store-server patching, RFID tag-reader health, Defender alerts and quarterly merchandise-performance reviews. Same partner that built the system stays on through every LS Retail and Microsoft wave.
Can Novasoft connect LS Central for Fashion to a Shopify storefront?
Yes. Novasoft ships a two-way connector between LS Central for Fashion / Business Central and Shopify — the style master, size-colour matrix, stock levels, prices, promotions and orders sync against your live fashion tenant. Useful for brands whose marketing team owns the Shopify storefront but whose buying, finance and store operations run on the LS Central + BC tenant. One inventory pool, one customer record, one chart of accounts.
How does Novasoft support multi-brand fashion houses and franchise models?
LS Central for Fashion + Business Central on a single Microsoft tenant supports multi-brand, multi-franchise and multi-format fashion groups out of the box — brand-segregated chart of accounts, brand-specific loyalty schemes and item masters, franchise-partner P&L visibility, and consolidated group-level reporting. NOVAHUB gives franchise partners and concession brands their own self-service portal for stock, AR aging and document upload. Factory outlets and off-price formats run as separate stores within the same tenant with format-specific pricing and promotion engines.
- LS Retail — LS Central for Fashion product documentation · Accessed May 2026
- LS Retail Partner Directory — Novasoft (Diamond Partner, 5 consecutive years 2022–2026)
- Microsoft Partner — Solutions Partner for Business Applications · Firm credential reference
- Microsoft Learn India — Business Central documentation · India regional reference
- UAE Federal Tax Authority — VAT invoice requirements for fashion retailers · Middle East regional authority
Last reviewed May 2026.