Your cure rack, your true cost per bar —
for $19 a month.
Craftybase is Stocksmith now, pointed at businesses with staff and six figures in revenue — and its plans run $49 to $349/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 for $19/mo.
$19/mo for the whole back office, kept for as long as you stay. No card to start — MadeKeeper asks for one when you subscribe, not before. The shop stays free for cost a piece and one fair — no product cap. The tax packet, Etsy and Square, and more fairs are the $19.
Honest up front: the app is live and taking subscriptions today. It is young, so expect a rough edge here and there — tell me when you hit one and I will fix it. Every Craftybase fact below is sourced on the main comparison page.
Why soap makers are the ones this hurts
Two things bite soap makers specifically. First, batch and lot tracking — the records the paperwork side of soap leans on — sits a tier or two up in a tiered tool — on Stocksmith it starts at Indie, $99/mo; on MadeKeeper it's on the $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 →
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 soap maker at one bench and one booth:
- Craftybase / Stocksmith$49–$349/mo, metered order lines*
- MadeKeeper$19/mo, no order-line meters
- Your historymigrates free, previewed & undoable
- The applive now
*Stocksmith's published plans, read 11 August 2026: Studio $49/mo, Indie $99, Business $199, Growth $349, with order lines metered from Indie up (1,000/mo, then 5,000, then 5,000+). Their pricing FAQ also says Pro starts at $20/mo on a single sales channel. Every Craftybase and Stocksmith figure we use is sourced on the main comparison page.
Everything Craftybase was loved for at your size, plus a fair that nets down to what the day earned — 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 are all in the app today, with guided setup and the full Craftybase history migration to get you started. So are Etsy order sync, Square card sync, your own shop page, a Buy button on your own Square account, and custom-order requests off a piece you already sold. On the $24 MadeKeeper AI plan you also get receipts, shelves and recipe cards read from a photo — photo reads are on that plan; hand entry is how the $19 shop starts. Still building: your own books answered in plain words, buying a shipping label inside the app, and a best-customers report. MadeKeeper does not send marketing email to your buyers and is not going to: every maker here sends from one shared reputation, and a quote that has to arrive matters more than a mailing list. Nothing above is dressed up as done when it is not. See the full live-vs-building list →
Questions soap makers ask
Is there a cheaper Craftybase alternative for soap makers?
MadeKeeper is $19/mo for the whole back office, kept at $19 for as long as you stay — versus Stocksmith's (formerly Craftybase) $49-to-$349 ladder that meters order lines from the Indie tier up. 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.
Does MadeKeeper track cure time and lot numbers like Craftybase?
Yes, and lot tracking is on the $19 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.
Can I move my soap recipes and history off Craftybase?
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.
See your real numbers
The app is live. $19/mo, kept for as long as you stay.