Chester County-based Orth Cleaners is going to expand its services into Philadelphia starting mid-September. The company has teamed up with California-based SMRT Systems to offer a modern approach to business, by offering its customers the option of being able to track their items through the cleaning process.

This new technology will also allow its customers to know the precise whereabouts of their order along the delivery route, the scheduling of pick-up and drop off services, as well as allowing them to make payments through their mobile devices.

Kyle Riggle, CEO of Orth Cleaners, said that the company has already “digitized at this point close to 80,000 garments.”

The platform used also offers historical invoices, a feature that benefits businessmen who track those expenditures, and allows employees of the suburban dry cleaning company to more easily find orders in the 11,000-square-foot warehouse located at Valley Township.

Since buying the 88-year-old local cleaning company, including its real estate, for around $700,000 last fall, Orth’s customer base has climbed from around 1,000 to 4,400 customers. However, Riggle admits that the previous method of tracking clients was not uniform, making the 1,000 figure mark more of an estimate.

The company currently has a 2,500 square foot store in Coatesville as well as the nearly 1,800 square foot shop in West Chester.  If the move in Philadelphia goes as planned, then Orth has not ruled out the possibility of adding real estate in the city as well. Considering that the emphasis of the company is on customers using its delivery service, a drop-off cleaning facility in Philadelphia for drivers would make sense.

Earlier this year Kyle Riggle stopped by Walnut St. Labs for their Start Up Meet Up. You can catch that video below.