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Moving Your Jewelry Business Off Craftybase

What actually happens when a jewelry maker leaves Stocksmith for MadeKeeper: the gram-by-gram math, what imports clean, and what you rebuild by hand.

MadeKeeper · August 1, 2026

Jewelry makers left Craftybase in bigger numbers than almost anyone except candle and soap makers, and it's easy to see why: metal by the gram, stones by the carat, findings by the hundred, a hallmark stamp that means something legally — none of that fits a generic "quantity" field, and Craftybase (now Stocksmith) was the one tool that bothered to track it by weight at all. So if you're a bench jeweler weighing whether to follow the rebrand up its new ladder or move somewhere built to stay your size, here's the honest version: what actually moves, what you rebuild, and what the math looks like on one real piece.

What changed, plainly

Craftybase became Stocksmith on July 1, 2026. Same login, same data, new name — and a new pricing ladder. Pro is $20/mo, but it's capped to one sales channel. The moment you're on Etsy and doing a few fairs and maybe a wholesale account with a local shop — which describes most jewelry makers who've been at it more than a year — you're not on Pro anymore. You're on Studio at $49/mo, and if your order count climbs, Indie at $99 and up from there. None of that is a trick. Stocksmith is building for bigger operations now, multi-user access and production scheduling included, and that's a fair business to be in. It's just not aimed at a one-bench jeweler anymore, and jewelry is a craft where "one bench" describes a real majority of the people doing it.

MadeKeeper is $19 a month, one plan, every channel included, no order-line meter. That's the price case in a sentence. The harder question — the one worth actually answering instead of assuming — is whether it does the job for a metal-and-stone business specifically, not just a generic "maker."

Why jewelry inventory isn't generic inventory

Every craft has its own unit model, and jewelry's is genuinely different from candles or soap. Metal gets bought and priced by weight — grams, troy ounces, pennyweight — and that price moves with the market, so the same spool of sterling wire can cost differently month to month. Stones are their own animal: a purchased cab has a clean receipt cost, but a self-collected or inherited stone might have no cost basis at all, and your books need to be honest about that rather than inventing a number. Findings — jump rings, bails, clasps, ear wires — get bought in lots of 100 and used a few at a time, so the per-piece cost is a fraction of a fraction. And a good chunk of what you make is one-of-a-kind, not a batch of twelve identical candles, which changes how cost-per-piece even gets calculated.

None of that is exotic to MadeKeeper's materials and recipe system — you enter silver at whatever unit you buy it in (per gram works fine), a stone at its actual cost or at zero if you didn't pay for it, and findings at their per-unit cost the same way a soap maker enters lye by the pound. What MadeKeeper doesn't have is an automatic feed that pulls today's spot silver or gold price into your materials for you. You update your material cost when your supplier's price changes, the same way you'd notice wax or fabric got more expensive. Worth knowing before you move, not after.

The worked example: one pendant, to the penny

Say you make a wire-wrapped sterling pendant with a purchased gemstone cab. Here's what it actually costs, the way you'd enter it as a recipe:

Materials cost per pendant: $14.22. That's your COGS — the number that goes on the tax packet, materials only, the way it should.

Now the labor, which MadeKeeper treats differently on purpose. Say the piece takes 45 minutes at your own shop rate of $28/hour — that's $21.00. That labor cost feeds the suggested-price coach so you can see a real number instead of guessing, but it never touches your COGS or your Schedule C. Your own time is a pricing input, never a tax deduction you don't actually have — that split matters, because it's the exact thing that trips people up when they try to build this in a spreadsheet.

Fully loaded (materials plus labor), the piece runs $35.22. If you're pricing at roughly 2.2× fully-loaded cost for retail — a reasonable jewelry margin once you account for show fees, slow stones, and the pieces that don't sell — that's a $78 retail price, or a wholesale number closer to $53 at a tighter multiplier. Those exact multipliers are yours to set; the point is that you can see the whole chain from gram of wire to sticker price, instead of eyeballing it at 11pm before a show.

What comes over when you move, and what doesn't

The full-history migration is the same offer for every craft, and it's real: your Stocksmith purchases become dated material lots, your production runs become batches with their original costs frozen in place, your orders become sales on their actual dates. It's previewed before anything writes, and one click undoes the whole thing if it doesn't look right. That part isn't jewelry-specific — it's just true, and it matters more here than in some crafts, because jewelry sellers tend to have a longer tail of one-off pieces and older sales worth keeping straight for tax purposes.

What doesn't come over, for jewelry the same as any craft: recipes. Stocksmith's own export doesn't include the bill of materials behind a piece — the grams of wire, the finding, the stone — because that link was never in the file to begin with. You rebuild each design's recipe by hand. For a jewelry line that's often faster than it sounds, because designs repeat: once you've entered "sterling bail, 4mm jump ring, standard ear wire pair" as findings, every earring design after that reuses them. Budget an evening for your active sellers, not a weekend.

Two more honest gaps, specific to this craft. First, there's no automated "melt your scrap back into stock" workflow — if you recover silver from bench sweeps or a piece that didn't work out, you log it as a small material entry at its recovered value, the same way you'd correct a stock count. It works, it's just a manual step, not a dedicated button. Second, if you're tracking your hallmark stamp or purity mark per design for your own Stamping Act or FTC gold-claim records, MadeKeeper can hold that as a note on the product — that's paperwork help, written down where you'll find it, not a compliance guarantee. The actual rules are yours and your state's to know; check the FTC's guidance directly rather than trusting any software to tell you you're covered.

Who should stay put

If you're running multiple people on one account, doing real production runs with sub-assemblies (cast components built into other cast components — a multi-level bill of materials MadeKeeper doesn't do and isn't building), or moving enough volume that Stocksmith's Amazon and QuickBooks sync are load-bearing for you, stay on Stocksmith. That's not a hedge — it's the honest answer for a jeweler who's grown into a real production shop. The higher tiers exist for exactly that, and they're good at it.

If it's still you at the bench, pricing pieces by the gram and the stone, selling at a few fairs and on Etsy and maybe into one or two shops on consignment, the math above is the whole pitch: $19 instead of $49-and-climbing, your history moved over free and undoable, and a cost chain that goes from raw silver to sticker price without you doing the arithmetic by hand every time. If jewelry's your craft specifically, the MadeKeeper page for jewelry makers walks through findings, hallmarks, and OOAK costing in the vocabulary you already use.

MadeKeeper is free during the founding pilot, one plan, no tiers to climb as your booth list grows — and the person who answers your email is the one who built the importer you'd be using to bring your bench over.