Craftybase Is Now Stocksmith — What It Means

Craftybase rebranded to Stocksmith and moved upmarket. A plain, sourced look at the new pricing and a kitchen-table maker's real options.

If you've logged into Craftybase lately, you saw the new name at the top: it's Stocksmith now. The banner is friendly about it — "Craftybase → Stocksmith · Same team, same software, just a new name." That's true as far as it goes. But the name isn't the only thing that moved. The pricing and the direction moved too, and if you make things at a kitchen table and sell them at a couple of fairs, it's worth understanding what changed before you decide what to do.

This is a plain reading of it. No outrage, no sales pitch dressed up as news.

What actually happened

Craftybase rebranded to Stocksmith on July 1, 2026. The app lives at stocksmith.io now, and the old craftybase.com help pages redirect to help.stocksmith.io. Your login, your data, your account — all still there.

What's different is the shape of the plans. Stocksmith publishes a ladder that runs from a small single-channel plan up to plans built for businesses moving thousands of orders a month. Here's what they list:

Those prices and limits are straight off the Stocksmith pricing page.

Reading it honestly

The first thing worth saying: there is still a low plan. Pro at $20/mo exists, and if you sell on exactly one channel at low volume, it may fit you fine. It would be dishonest to pretend the entry point vanished.

The second thing, though, is the direction the ladder points. Look at what the middle plans are metered on: order lines per month. A thousand order lines lands you on the $99 plan. Five thousand puts you at $199. That's a pricing model designed around order volume, and it's the language of a growing business, not a bench. The feature list climbs the same way — multi-user access, production scheduling, Amazon integration, QuickBooks inventory sync. Genuinely useful things. Things a shop with staff and a warehouse needs, and things a person making soap on Saturdays mostly doesn't.

And there's the catch for the maker who sells everywhere. The $20 Pro plan is capped to a single sales channel. The moment you're selling on Etsy and at the farmers market and off your own website — which is most makers who've been at it a few years — you've outgrown Pro's single-channel limit and you're looking at Studio at $49/mo. Not because your business got big. Just because it got spread across the places makers naturally sell.

None of this makes Stocksmith wrong. Software companies grow up. The team clearly decided their future is with bigger operations, and their plans now reflect that. That's a fair path to choose. It just may not be the path that has you on it.

The part that's easy to miss

Getting your data out of Craftybase is genuinely fine — every list page has an export button, and your materials, products, purchases, makes, and sales all come out as CSV files you own. That portability is real, and it's to their credit. Your business is yours to take.

The harder part, with any platform, is landing your whole past somewhere new in one motion — not just today's stock, but every dated purchase, batch, and sale behind it. That's the piece most tools quietly make you give up when you switch, because carrying only current stock forward is the easy thing for them to build. MadeKeeper's answer is to bring all of it across free, on the $19 plan, previewed before it writes anything and undoable in one click. So if leaving ever crosses your mind, the history doesn't have to stay behind.

So what are a small maker's options?

Three honest ones, depending on where you actually are:

Stay on Pro, if you truly are single-channel and quiet. Twenty dollars is twenty dollars, and if Stocksmith does what you need, "it works and I know it" is a real reason to stay put. Switching for its own sake is a tax on your time.

Move up the Stocksmith ladder, if you're growing toward a business with staff, a warehouse, and thousands of orders. The higher plans are built for exactly that, and the production-scheduling and multi-user features aren't fluff at that scale. If that's your trajectory, they'll serve you.

Find a tool built to stay small, if you're going to stay small. This is the group nobody's really courting anymore: one bench, one booth, a few sales channels, a hundred products, a tax return once a year. If that's you, you want inventory, true cost per piece, per-event profit, and a clean year-end packet — without an order-line meter and without climbing a tier every time you add a market.

MadeKeeper is built for that third group, on purpose. It's $19 a month, one plan, every sales channel included, and your whole Craftybase history — purchases, batches, sales, on their original dates — imports free, previewed and one-click undoable. It's not trying to grow up into Stocksmith's new customers. It's trying to be the tool the old Craftybase was, and stay that size. If candles are your thing, there's a MadeKeeper page for candle makers that talks in fragrance load and pour weight, not generic inventory. A fair word of honesty, though: some pieces are still being built there. Live Etsy order sync is close but not switched on yet, and there's no Square sync, storefront, or shipping-label printing today. If automatic marketplace sync is the one thing you can't run your week without, that's worth knowing before you move.

A five-minute self-check

You don't need a spreadsheet to figure out which group you're in. Four honest questions usually settle it:

1. How many places do you sell? One channel, quietly? Pro at $20 may still be fine. Etsy plus fairs plus your own site? You're a multi-channel seller, and on Stocksmith that's the $49 tier and up.
2. How many orders a month? If you're nowhere near a thousand order lines, you're paying for a meter you'll never fill. If you're regularly past it, the higher plans are priced for you and probably worth it.
3. Does anyone else log in? Staff and multi-user access is a real Stocksmith strength and a real reason to stay. A one-person bench doesn't need it.
4. What do you actually open the software to do? If the answer is "know what things cost, what a fair paid me, and what to hand my tax person," that's a bench-scale job — and it shouldn't cost business-scale money.

There's no wrong answer here. The point is to match the tool to the shop you actually run, not the one a pricing page imagines you becoming.

If you want to feel the difference before deciding anything, the fair-day profit calculator is free and needs no account — punch in a booth fee, your mileage, and a day's sales, and see whether last Saturday actually paid. That "know before you load the truck" number is the kind of thing a bench-scale tool should lead with, and a good gut check on what you actually need from software.

Whatever you decide, decide it on the facts: the name changed, the plans climbed and got metered by order volume, and the platform is aiming at bigger operations than the one you may be running. That's not a betrayal. It's just a fork in the road, and now you can see both directions.