Handmade Business Software
Craftybase is inventory and manufacturing software built for handmade sellers. Track materials, calculate what each product actually costs you to make, and import orders from Etsy, Shopify, and Amazon -- all in one place.
14-day free trial. No credit card required.
Trusted by makers worldwide
"It was getting unmanageable to keep an Excel spreadsheet for my inventory." Half your data is in one place, half in another, and you never quite trust the math.
"Am I charging enough for the stuff that I'm making?" If you're pricing based on what competitors charge instead of what it actually costs you, you might be losing money on your best sellers.
"I did my taxes and realized how much I needed to have done at the start." Scrambling for COGS numbers at the last minute is stressful -- and costs you money in missed deductions.
Craftybase replaces the spreadsheets, notebooks, and guesswork with one system that actually understands how makers work.
Recipe & BOM Costing
Material Inventory Tracking
Etsy, Shopify & Amazon Imports
COGS & Schedule C Reports
Low Stock Alerts
Reports & Charts
Join thousands of makers who switched from spreadsheets to Craftybase.
14-day free trial. No credit card required. Takes about 15 minutes to set up.
I'm impressed with the ability to track minute quantities of essential oils and other materials used in multiple products. I love the conversion from purchase to tracking units, and love the ability to make components and recipes.
Elise WishlowElise Wishlow
Craftybase has given me the tools amp; resources to accurately track my materials, recipes, and inventory. I love that I can build out my recipes and make adjustments to see my cost in real time.
Tiffany JensenTiffany Jensen
Being able to track manufactures, along with product & material inventory has made me able to efficiently manage my time spent on those tasks.
Kathy PattersonKathy Patterson
I no longer have to do manual inventory - what else is there to say?! I love the manufactures and managing supplies... especially with two online channels and selling at shows.
Shelly
Tracking all my inventory, projects, invoices, contacts in one place and being able to run reports to see how my business is doing has helped me run my business a little easier.
AmandaAmanda
Having real time inventory, pricing guidance, and expense tracking makes the paperwork of owning a business simpler. Keeping all of the information in one place makes it ideal.
HeatherHeather
Craftybase has been a wonderful tool in running my business. I love that I can look at reports and know exactly what I have in inventory and also see what my total sales are.
AliciaAlicia
Being able to create "recipes" for each of our products has made managing our material inventory a breeze! It's a dream come true to always be on top of our inventory levels!
KaraKara
We no longer have to wonder how much of something we have in stock. It's much easier for me to sell my product when I know how much is on the shelf!
CaitlinCaitlin
I love that the app keeps track of how much material I have on hand and how much it costs me exactly… This allows me to really know how much my products cost me to make and how much I should charge.
JannaJanna
I love that Craftybase keeps track of the cost of materials over time including shipping. As costs creep up I can make sure my product prices reflect that reality.
ArrowynArrowyn
Thanks to Craftybase I can run my entire business off one program and can always stay on top of my ingredient inventory, sales and stock levels. I don't know where I would be without it!
PaulinePauline
I went into business because I had great ideas for products, not because I was good at keeping track of numbers. Craftybase lets my brain do it's creative work by taking care of the nitty-gritty.
AmyAmy
Craftybase is inventory and manufacturing software built specifically for small-batch makers and artisan businesses who manufacture products from raw materials.
It's designed for:
Craftybase is purpose-built for makers who manufacture products in-house. It's not designed for retail-only businesses, resellers who buy and resell finished goods, service-based businesses, or large-scale manufacturers who need enterprise ERP.
Most of our customers tracked their inventory in spreadsheets before switching to Craftybase. The typical setup takes about 15 minutes. You can import your existing materials and products via CSV, and Craftybase connects to your sales channels to pull in orders automatically. No more manual data entry, no more formula errors, no more version-5-final.xlsx.
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Dear maker...
Hi there! I'm Nicole, and I started Craftybase in 2011 because I saw makers everywhere struggling with the same problem: they didn't know what their products actually cost to make.
Since then, thousands of makers have shaped Craftybase into what it is today. Every feature exists because a maker like you needed it.
I'd love for you to give it a try. Start your free 14-day trial -- no credit card or commitment required. See how much time and stress it saves you.
A handmade business typically needs three types of software: inventory and manufacturing software to track materials and calculate product costs, a sales channel (Etsy, Shopify, or similar) to handle transactions, and basic bookkeeping to manage overall finances. Most general small business tools skip the manufacturing layer entirely -- they can't track raw materials, build recipes, or calculate COGS per product. Craftybase covers the inventory and manufacturing piece specifically built for makers who create products from raw materials.
General small business software (QuickBooks, Wave, FreshBooks) is designed for service businesses and resellers -- they track income and expenses, but they can't handle the manufacturing layer that handmade businesses need. Handmade business software like Craftybase understands that you start with raw materials, combine them into recipes, produce finished products, and sell across multiple channels. It tracks material stock levels, calculates true cost per unit from your actual ingredient costs, and generates COGS automatically -- none of which general accounting tools do.
Yes -- and that dual tracking is the core of what makes it useful for makers. Craftybase tracks your raw material stock (how much beeswax, fragrance oil, or yarn you have on hand) and your finished product inventory (how many candles, soaps, or scarves are ready to sell) as two separate but linked layers. When you record a manufacturing run, materials are automatically deducted from stock. When a sale comes in from Etsy or Shopify, finished product stock is adjusted. You never have to manually update both sides.
Craftybase calculates cost of goods sold (COGS) from the bottom up: you enter each material in a product's recipe with its quantity, and Craftybase uses your actual purchase prices to work out the total material cost per unit. Add optional labour time and overhead, and you get a complete cost per product. As you sell, Craftybase accumulates your COGS in real time -- so at tax time (or any time), you can pull an accurate COGS report without manually piecing together receipts and spreadsheets.
Yes. Craftybase connects to Etsy, Shopify, Amazon, WooCommerce, Wix, and several other platforms. Orders import automatically each night, so your sales history, product stock levels, and COGS figures stay current without any manual data entry. If you sell on multiple channels simultaneously, Craftybase consolidates everything into one view -- one set of inventory numbers, one COGS report, one picture of your business.
Most makers start with spreadsheets -- they're free, and they work for a while. But once you're managing more than a handful of materials and products, spreadsheets become error-prone and time-consuming. Craftybase starts at $20/month billed yearly (with a 14-day free trial, no credit card required) and is purpose-built for makers at this stage. It's worth it once you realise a single correctly-priced product can cover the entire annual cost -- and that's before counting the time you save not doing manual calculations.
Join thousands of makers who finally know their true costs.
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