Craftybase turned into Stocksmith and pointed itself at manufacturing-scale businesses, starting at $49/mo. A studio potter isn't a factory: forty mugs go on the greenware shelf and thirty-four come out of the glaze fire whole, and your prices have to carry that loss. MadeKeeper costs your work by what survives, treats a kiln load as the natural batch, and puts it all on one $19/mo plan — with per-event fair profit Craftybase never had.
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.
Manufacturing tools assume clean yields; a kiln does not. MadeKeeper builds stage loss into the price — when 40 thrown become 34 sold, the survivors carry the cost of the whole board, so a cracked handle doesn't silently eat your margin. A firing is the batch, spreading its electricity across the pieces inside. The seconds shelf and the kiln-opening sale each get their own honest numbers. And because you sell at fairs, every event nets booth fee, miles, and hours to a profit-per-fair verdict — something a factory tool has no concept of.
Your studio history migrates free. Export from Stocksmith, drop the files in, and purchases become lots, firings become batches, 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 potter 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 — versus Stocksmith's (was Craftybase) $49-and-up ladder built for manufacturing scale. For a studio potter it's the right size: clay and glaze as materials, the kiln load as a batch, kiln loss built into the price, and per-event fair profit included.
It handles kiln loss more honestly for a studio: you log what went in and what survived, and the survivors carry the full batch cost. A kiln load is the batch, spreading its firing cost across the pieces inside. Glazes track by weight as recipes or by the pint — either way each piece pulls its real glaze cost.
Your materials, purchases, firings (as batches), and sales migrate free on their original dates, costs frozen. Recipes are the one thing no Craftybase export contains, so you rebuild your glaze recipes with your old per-piece cost as a target. See the switch page for the steps.
The app is live and free during the pilot. Lock the $19/mo founding rate for as long as you stay.