Craftybase became Stocksmith and set its sights on bigger operations, with a pricing ladder that opens at $49/mo. If you pour on the weekend and sell at Saturday markets, that's built for someone else's workshop. MadeKeeper is built for yours: a batch recipe that pulls wax by the pound and fragrance by your load percentage, wicks from the per-100 bag, the two-week cure on the calendar, and burn-test jars counted as the real cost they are — all on one $19/mo plan.
The app is live. Free during the pilot. Founding rate $19/mo, locked for life — no order-line meters, ever.
Honest up front: MadeKeeper is an early open pilot — free while we build with founding makers, and the core app is live today. Zero customers, so zero testimonials; every Craftybase fact below is sourced on the main comparison page.
Candle costing is fragrance-load math, and MadeKeeper does it the way you already think: ten pounds of wax at an 8% load pulls 12.8 ounces of oil, costed at your supplier's price, split across the tins the batch made. The cure is on the calendar, so poured-but-curing candles don't inflate your sellable stock before a big market. And the jars you burn testing a new wick-and-fragrance combo log as testing — real development cost, not a mystery hole in your margin. None of that lives a tier away; it's the one plan.
Your past comes too. Export from Stocksmith, drop the files in, and purchases become lots, pours become batches with frozen costs, and orders become sales on their original dates — previewed, and undoable in one click. See how the migration works →
Craftybase is Stocksmith now, and it's grown toward bigger operations — a fair path for them, and the right tool if you run at scale. But if you're a candle maker at one bench and one booth:
Everything Craftybase was loved for at your size, plus per-event fair profit it never had — and it stays this size on purpose. See the full head-to-head →
Materials and true cost per piece, batch "makes" with your labor amortized in, the suggested-price coach, product variants, sales that drain stock, the market-day quick-sale screen, lot tracking, the was-this-fair-worth-it event math, money-insight reports, multi-location consignment, the cure/best-by heads-up engine, mileage, expenses, and the Schedule C tax packet — all in the app today, with guided setup and the full Craftybase history migration to get you started. Etsy and Square sync, your own storefront, shipping labels, email to past buyers, and AI data entry are building, shaped with founding makers. Nothing above describes a feature that doesn't exist without saying so. See the full live-vs-building list →
MadeKeeper is $19/mo, one plan, everything included, founding rate locked for life — against Stocksmith's (was Craftybase) $49-and-up tiers with order-line caps. It's sized for a weekend candle bench: fragrance-load batch costing, the cure on the calendar, and burn tests tracked as cost.
Yes. Your batch recipe carries the load percentage and pulls the right ounces of fragrance oil per pour; change the load or the oil and the cost updates. Poured candles count as made-but-not-sellable until their cure date, so your sellable stock is what's actually ready.
Purchases, pours (as batches), and orders (as sales) migrate free on their original dates, with costs frozen. Recipes are the one thing that can't export from Craftybase, so you rebuild those with your old per-candle cost shown as a target. The switch page has the full steps.
The app is live and free during the pilot. Lock the $19/mo founding rate for as long as you stay.