Craftybase is Stocksmith now, pointed at businesses with staff and six figures in revenue — and its cheapest real plan starts at $49/mo. If you're pouring a loaf at the kitchen counter and curing bars on a rack in the spare room, that's a lot of software for a small soap bench. MadeKeeper is built for exactly your size: oils and lye by weight, a loaf as a batch with a lot number, the cure rack counted as inventory, and the whole thing 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.
Two things bite soap makers specifically. First, batch and lot tracking — the records the paperwork side of soap leans on — is exactly the kind of feature that lives on the higher, pricier plans in a tiered tool; on MadeKeeper it's on the one $19 plan, full stop. Second, soap sits made-but-unsellable longer than almost any craft: four to six weeks on the cure rack. MadeKeeper counts curing bars as exactly that — made, not yet sellable — so your fall-market stock plan starts from the rack, not from wishful loaf counts.
And your history comes with you. Export from Stocksmith, drop the files in, and your past purchases become material lots, your pours become batches with their costs frozen, and your orders become sales on their original dates — previewed first, undone 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 soap 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 one plan at $19/mo, founding rate locked for life, everything included — versus Stocksmith's (formerly Craftybase) $49-and-up ladder with order-line caps. For a kitchen-counter soap bench, it's built to be the right size and the right price, with oils and lye by weight, loaf-as-batch costing, and the cure rack tracked as inventory.
Yes, and lot tracking is on the one plan, not a tier up. Every pour gets a lot; every bar carries it to the sale. A batch logs with its cure date, and its bars count as made-but-not-sellable until then — so your market-day stock number is the rack's real answer, not the loaf count.
Your purchases, batches, and sales migrate free on their original dates. Recipes are the one thing no Craftybase export contains, so you rebuild those — MadeKeeper shows your old per-bar cost as a target so you know when a rebuilt recipe matches. See the switch page for the walkthrough.
The app is live and free during the pilot. Lock the $19/mo founding rate for as long as you stay.