Craftybase — sold as Stocksmith since 2026 — is inventory and cost-of-goods software for makers who hold stock, and it is good at that. If your orders start in a conversation instead, wait weeks between the sale and the delivery and get paid in parts, what you run into is not a missing feature but the model: there is no order to hold a deposit and a balance against.
Craftybase (now Stocksmith) · checked 10 September 2026
We make Ordamo, so we are an interested party. What we can be is checkable: written by the people who built it for their own furniture studio in Buenos Aires, every price taken from the other side’s own page with the date we read it, and their wins listed above ours.
| Craftybase | Ordamo | |
|---|---|---|
| Built around | Materials, recipes and stocked units | Orders, deposits and production batches |
| Deposit and balance on one order | An order can be marked paid; there is no schedule behind it | Both, with dates, on the order itself |
| Cost of a one-off piece | Recipe cost, per repeatable product | On the order line, and a received batch writes what the run really cost onto its products |
| Margin | Per product, from the recipe | Per order, after the real cost lands |
| Raw materials to the gram | Yes — this is what it is for | No. Products carry a hand-kept count; materials are not tracked |
| Lot and batch traceability | Yes, with compliance in mind | Batch cost, not compliance records |
| A page the customer can open | No | Yes — one link per order, updates itself |
| Store and marketplace sync | Yes, live | No live sync; a Shopify, Etsy or WooCommerce export imports as orders |
| Entry price | $20/mo Pro, $49 Studio — but its cards start at Indie, $83 billed annually | $29/mo, one plan |
| What makes the bill grow | Monthly order lines | Nothing |
Built for orders that take weeks to deliver, start in a message and get paid in parts.
Add a customer and their order
Deposit taken, balance still owed, and the date you promised.
Send your customer their order page
One link that updates itself, instead of twenty messages.
Record what the batch cost
What a run really cost, over the pieces it produced. One button puts that on the products it made.
See what you actually made
Revenue, cost and margin per order. Money in, money out, cash on hand.
An order can be marked paid, which is a flag rather than a position: it cannot say that $1,900 arrived in March against $3,800 agreed, with the rest due on delivery in June. So the deposits move to a spreadsheet beside the tool, and what you are owed across every open order is a column you add up by hand.
Recipe costing assumes the same product gets made again from the same materials, which is exactly right for stocked goods. A commission is the opposite: this table came from the batch of oak you bought in April, the next one from a batch you have not bought yet. Averaging them is how a margin looks fine on paper and disappears in the bank.
Inventory software has no reason to have a customer-facing page, and it does not. On an eight-to-sixteen-week build that gap is not cosmetic: it is the twenty messages per order you answer personally, and the reason a delay becomes an argument instead of an update.
Above the entry plan the tiers are priced by monthly order volume: $99 at a thousand order lines, $199 at five thousand. For a workshop shipping a few dozen bespoke pieces a year that is a pricing model aimed at somebody else's business, and you pay the shape of it either way.
From $20/mo
Pro, which its own page describes as a single sales channel with very low order volume; Studio is $49, or $41 billed annually. The plans it actually puts on cards start higher and are metered by order lines a month rather than by seats: Indie $99 or $83 billed annually ($990 a year) at 1,000 lines, Business $199 or $166 at 5,000, Growth $349 or $291 above that.
$29/mo
One plan, per business, everything included. $0 today, first charge after 7 days, cancel in one click. 14-day money-back on the first month. Nothing is metered.
What is in the planWe are not the only answer, and pretending otherwise wastes your afternoon.
The cheap end of maker inventory: materials, production and cost of goods. From $19 a month billed yearly.
KatanaManufacturing for a floor with staff on it: work orders, scheduling, capacity. From $299 a month before add-ons.
inFlowStock with orders attached: barcodes, purchase orders, a wholesale showroom. From $129 a month billed annually.
The whole categorySix families of tool, what each one answers, and the three questions that pick between them.
Yes. Craftybase was renamed Stocksmith: craftybase.com redirects to stocksmith.io, and the pricing page there describes it as the same team and the same software under a new name. This page uses the older name because it is the one most sellers still search for.
Only for one half of what it does. If you are using Craftybase to hold deposits and work out what a custom order earned, Ordamo replaces it and does that job properly. If you are using it to track raw material inventory to the gram with lot numbers, Ordamo does not do that at all, and switching would be a downgrade.
Plenty of studios should. A business with a stocked catalogue and a commission side has two different problems, and one tool for each is cheaper and less painful than bending either one to cover both. The overlap between them is small enough that nothing gets recorded twice except the customer's name.
Cheapest first: Pro at $20 a month for a single sales channel with very low order volume, then Studio at $49 or $41 billed annually. Those two sit in the page text; the plans on the cards are Indie at $99, or $83 billed annually ($990 a year), for 1,000 order lines a month, Business at $199 or $166 for 5,000, and Growth at $349 or $291 above that. Ordamo is $29 a month on one plan with nothing metered. Confirm the current position on stocksmith.io before deciding on the strength of a number here.
Export to CSV from Craftybase and import the file as it is. There is no template to fill in — the columns are read for you and you confirm what was found before anything is saved. In practice only open orders need to come; the closed history is reference and belongs in an archived export.
No. It tracks what a production batch cost and divides that across the pieces it produced, which is the figure you then cost an order with. Finished products do carry a units-in-stock count you adjust by hand, with a history of the adjustments — that is the extent of it. There is no material-level stock, no reorder points and no lot traceability, and if that is your bottleneck this is the wrong tool.
For a furniture studio selling commissions with a deposit, the shortlist is short: an order tool built around deposits and batch cost, a self-built Airtable or Notion base, or a spreadsheet for the first dozen orders. Katana and other MRP systems come up in these lists and are aimed at a production floor with staff on it, at $299 a month and up — a different business, not a better version of yours.
Nothing in this category has a free tier worth planning around. Notion's free plan and a spreadsheet are the genuine no-cost options, and both work until deposits and per-order margin become the questions you ask weekly. Katana publishes a free tier capped at 30 SKUs, which is a trial in practice rather than a way to run a workshop, and Inventora refers to a free Hobby plan without publishing what it allows.
Export your open orders to CSV, import the file as it comes — there is no template, the columns are read for you — then add the batches currently in production. Start new orders in Ordamo and let the open ones finish where they are, so there is no cutover day. Closed history stays in an archived export rather than moving.
Not at the very bottom: Craftybase publishes Pro at $20 a month for one sales channel and very low volume, which undercuts us. It is cheaper than the plans the product is really sold on — Studio at $49, and the cards from $83 billed annually upwards — and nothing in Ordamo is metered while those tiers are priced by order lines a month. So the subscription is not the comparison worth making: paying $20 for the wrong shape of tool is not a saving on $29 for the right one.
Not as a live sync, and that is a real difference from Craftybase, which syncs with both. What Ordamo does is read the export: a Shopify, Etsy or WooCommerce order file comes in as orders, customers and products, with no template to fill in, however that export lays its rows out. Etsy's own “Sold Order Items” file is read directly, including the fact that it carries dates rather than status words. If keeping marketplace stock counts correct in real time is central to your week, that is an argument for staying.
It depends on what you sell rather than on how many of you there are. A solo maker with a shelf of finished stock across two marketplaces is a Craftybase business. A solo maker taking three commissions at a time, each with a deposit and a delivery date, is not — and no amount of recipe costing turns one into the other.
Prices and plan names read from stocksmith.io — reached by following the redirect from craftybase.com — on 10 September 2026, along with Katana's published plans. Software pricing moves; confirm with the vendor before deciding on the strength of a figure here.
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