Inventora is materials, production batches, purchase orders and cost of goods for makers, synced to the channels you sell on — and at $19 a month it is the cheapest credible tool in that family. It is also cheaper than this one, which is the honest place to start: it answers a different question. Its subject is stock and what stock cost. If your order is agreed in a conversation, paid half now and half on delivery, and delivered in two months, the thing you need to hold is the order, and stock software has no place to put it.
Inventora · checked 9 September 2026
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| Inventora | Ordamo | |
|---|---|---|
| Built around | Materials, products and channel stock | Orders: deposits, balances, batch cost |
| Deposit and balance on one order | Its own pages describe stock, production, purchasing and COGS — not a payment schedule | Both, with dates, on the order itself |
| Cost of goods | Yes — calculated from sales synced off your channels | Per order, from what the batch really cost |
| Cost of a one-off piece | A product cost, per repeatable product | Set on the order line; the batch says what a run really cost per piece |
| Materials to the unit | Yes — 500 on Starter, 2,000 on Business | No. Products carry a hand-kept count; materials are not tracked |
| Channel sync | Shopify, Etsy, WooCommerce, Square, Wix, Squarespace | No live sync; a store export imports as orders |
| A page the customer can open | No | One link per order, no login, updates itself |
| What another person costs | $9 to $15 a month above the seats in the plan | Nothing — one plan, per business |
| Entry price | $19/mo billed yearly | $29/mo, one plan |
| If you change your mind | 7-day trial; its policy says no refund for any period of time | $0 today, first charge after 7 days, cancel in one click; 14-day money-back on the first month |
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.
$19 against $29 is a real difference and there is no point pretending otherwise. It is also the wrong comparison if the two tools answer different questions, which they do: Inventora is priced as stock software for makers and does that job well. Paying $19 for a tool that cannot hold a deposit is not a saving when deposits are the problem.
Nothing Inventora publishes about itself — materials, production, purchasing, fulfilment, cost of goods — describes money arriving in parts against an order that has not shipped. So the deposits move to a spreadsheet beside the tool, and the figure that matters most, what you are owed across every open order, becomes a column you add up by hand.
Cost of goods calculated from synced sales is exactly right for stocked products: the same thing, made repeatedly, sold through a shop. A commission is the opposite. This table came from the batch of oak you bought in April, the next from a batch you have not bought yet, and 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 does not have one. 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.
From $19/mo
Starter, billed yearly: 500 product variants, 500 materials, 2 team members, 2 integrations, one full location. Business is $39 with 2,000 of each and 5 members, Growth $99 with 10,000 and 10. Extra team members are $9 to $15 a month depending on the tier. Any plan can be tried free for 7 days, and its refund policy says a refund will not be given for any period of time.
$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.
Materials, recipes and cost of goods for makers who hold stock, with lot traceability. From $20 a month, with its real tiers from $83 billed annually.
QoblexStock, wholesale and production for a multi-channel brand. From $99 a month, orders metered by the year.
Zoho InventoryStock, invoices and retainers in one suite, at the same $29 a month. Free to 50 orders a month.
The whole categorySix families of tool, what each one answers, and the three questions that pick between them.
Nothing in what it publishes about itself covers a deposit now and a balance later: its own description is materials, products, production, purchasing, fulfilment and cost of goods across sales channels. If you are using it that way today with a workaround, check before you rely on this page — and either way, the customer-facing side of that arrangement does not exist there.
Starter is $19 a month billed yearly with 500 product variants, 500 materials, 2 team members and 2 integrations; Business is $39 with 2,000 of each and 5 members; Growth is $99 with 10,000 and 10. Extra team members cost $9 to $15 a month by tier. Ordamo is $29 a month, one plan, nothing metered. Confirm the current position on inventora.com before deciding on the strength of a number here.
Its pricing page lists Starter, Business and Growth, and refers to features being included on top of "everything in Hobby" without publishing what Hobby allows; Inventora's own writing elsewhere describes a free Hobby plan. Treat the free tier as real but undocumented and check it directly. The published free part is a 7-day trial of any plan.
They are the same family at different sizes, and Inventora is the cheaper entry at $19 billed yearly against Craftybase's $20 single-channel Pro and $49 Studio. Craftybase — now Stocksmith — goes further on recipe costing and lot traceability, which matters if your cost of goods has to survive a tax inspection. Neither holds a deposit against an unshipped order, so if that is the question, the choice between them is not the answer.
For the order side, yes: deposits, balances, what a run cost, what each order earned. For the stock side, no. Products carry a hand-kept count and that is all — no material counts, no reorder points, no channel sync — so a business whose real problem is keeping Etsy and Shopify counts right would be trading down.
Only if what you need is the order. Ordamo is $29 against $19 and holds a deposit and a balance with dates, a customer-facing page per order, and margin per order after the real batch cost lands. If none of those is your problem, the honest answer is no — stay on the cheaper tool.
Yes, and a business with a stocked catalogue and a commission side probably should. One tool for each is cheaper and less painful than bending either to cover both, and nothing gets recorded twice except the customer's name.
Not as a live sync, and that is a real difference from Inventora, which syncs six channel types. 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 — Etsy’s “Sold Order Items” file included. If keeping marketplace counts correct in real time is central to your week, that is an argument for staying.
For commissions with a deposit, an order tool built around the deposit and the batch, which is this at $29 a month. For a bigger stock operation, Craftybase from its $49 Studio, or Qoblex at $99. For a production floor with staff on it, Katana at $299 or MRPeasy at $49 per user. The cheapest tool that answers your actual question is the right one.
Export open orders and customers to CSV, import the file as it comes — there is no template, the columns are read for you — then add the deposits with their dates and the batches currently in production. Start new orders here and let the open ones finish where they are, so there is no cutover day.
Plan names, prices, variant, material, team-member and integration limits, the extra-seat prices, the 7-day trial and the refund policy read from inventora.com/pricing-plans on 9 September 2026; what the product covers — materials, products, production, purchasing, the six channel types and COGS from synced sales — from its own home page the same day. That a deposit schedule is absent is the absence of any mention of one across those pages. Software pricing moves; confirm with the vendor before deciding on the strength of a figure here.
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