Craftybase alternative for jewelry makers

A pennies business.
Priced like the pennies matter.

Craftybase is Stocksmith now, aimed at six-figure businesses, opening at $49/mo. Jewelry is a pennies business in a crowded market — beads by the strand, findings by the hundred, a design that becomes fourteen colorways before lunch — and that's exactly why a $49-and-up tool with order-line caps is the wrong shape for a market-table maker. MadeKeeper counts your cost per pair to the penny, handles every colorway as a variant, and never charges you more for a good sales month.

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.

Why jewelry makers feel the tiers first

Order-line caps hit high-volume, low-price sellers hardest — and that is jewelry to a tee. Sell a strong weekend of $14 earrings and a metered plan wants more money for it; MadeKeeper has no order-line meters at any volume, ever. On top of that: a $6.50 strand of 42 beads is 15.5¢ a bead, and MadeKeeper does that division for every strand, findings from the per-100 bag costed per piece, and one design in fourteen colorways as one product with variants — each with its own count, so restocking the table is a list, not a memory test.

Bring your history for free. Export from Stocksmith, drop the files in, and purchases become lots, makes become batches, and orders become sales on their original dates — previewed, and one click to undo. See how the migration works →

The short version

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 jewelry maker at one bench and one booth:

  • Craftybase / Stocksmith$49–$349/mo, order-line caps
  • MadeKeeper$19/mo, one plan, no meters
  • Your historymigrates free, previewed & undoable
  • The applive now, free during the pilot
jewelry making, its own way$19/mo

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 →

Straight about what's live

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 →

Questions jewelry makers ask

Is there a cheaper Craftybase alternative for jewelry makers?

MadeKeeper is $19/mo, one plan, no order-line meters at any volume — which matters most for jewelry, a high-count low-price craft that metered plans punish. Against Stocksmith's (formerly Craftybase) $49-and-up tiers with per-plan order caps, it's built to be the market-table maker's size.

Does MadeKeeper handle colorway variants like Craftybase?

Yes. One earring design in fourteen colorways is one product with variants, each keeping its own stock and sales — so you'll learn the terracotta outsells the sage three to one and make the next batch accordingly. Cost per pair is counted to the penny, packaging and earring cards included.

Can I move my jewelry catalog and history off Craftybase?

Your materials, products, purchases, makes, and sales migrate free on their original dates. Recipes (the material-to-design links) are the one thing no Craftybase export carries, so you rebuild them with your old per-pair cost as a target. The switch page walks it through.

See your real numbers

The app is live and free during the pilot. Lock the $19/mo founding rate for as long as you stay.