A cheap Craftybase alternative
for a kitchen-table business.
Stocksmith is Craftybase renamed — same fifteen-year-old software, now pointed at "proper product businesses" with six figures in revenue and staff in the workshop. If you found it looking for a way to price your work and survive tax season, its plans run $49 to $349/mo, with a $20 single-channel Pro tier in their FAQ. MadeKeeper is the tool for the maker that positioning skips — and it's live today: $19/mo, kept at $19 for as long as you stay, with no order-line meters, ever.
Fair warning: MadeKeeper is live and taking subscriptions. $19/mo for the whole back office, kept for as long as you stay. No card to start. 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. It is young, so expect a rough edge here and there — tell me when you hit one and I will fix it. That is what the $19 is for.
Wait — Stocksmith is Craftybase
If the name threw you, that's the point of this page. On 1 July 2026 Craftybase finished renaming itself to Stocksmith. Same product, same team, same data — their announcement is clear that existing customers keep their pricing and plans. But the rebrand said the quiet part out loud. Their about page describes the customer they build for now: "proper product businesses — formal LLCs, $100K+ in revenue, employees in the workshop, selling wholesale through Faire alongside their Shopify store," software "built and positioned specifically for businesses at operational scale." From the announcement itself: "somewhere along the way, the customer became a manufacturer."
None of that is a scandal. It's a small, well-run company choosing who it wants to serve. But the choice leaves a lot of people shopping — the maker at one bench, one booth, one kitchen table. That maker is who MadeKeeper is for, on purpose, and who it intends to stay for. If you want the longer, sourced version of the rebrand and the price history that led up to it, it's on the Craftybase alternative page.
What you actually get for $19
The small-maker core, kept faithfully — plus the things a kitchen-table business needs that a manufacturing tool never bothered with. Everything here is live in the app today, on the $19 plan.
True cost per piece
Materials in, a recipe, a batch make with your labor amortized across it — costs roll up automatically. The number you keep skipping, done for you.Per-event fair profit
Booth fee, round-trip miles at the IRS rate, and your hours netted against what sold — ranked across your season. Stocksmith's own pages cover the craft-fair day ("record your craft show sales in seconds"); no page found where it tells you what that Saturday earned after the booth and the drive.Lot tracking, included
Lot numbers follow a material into the batch and out to the sale, for recall and peace of mind — on the $19 plan, not a tier away.A Schedule C tax packet
P&L and inventory-at-cost mapped to Schedule C, for any range — year, quarter, month, custom — exported as CSV. Tax season becomes a report.The back office, no meters
Reports, consignment, variants, exports — all in the $19, and a good sales month never raises your bill. No order-line caps at any volume.Your history comes with you
Export from Stocksmith, drop the files in, and your whole past migrates on its original dates — previewed first, undone in one click. How the migration works →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 people ask
What is Stocksmith?
Stocksmith is the new name for Craftybase. The rebrand completed on 1 July 2026 — craftybase.com's front door now sends you to stocksmith.io, and card statements read STOCKSMITH. Per their own announcement it is the same product, team, and data, with existing customers grandfathered on their old pricing. What changed is who it is built for: their about page now describes "proper product businesses" with "$100K+ in revenue" and "employees in the workshop."
Is Stocksmith the same as Craftybase?
Yes — same software, renamed. If you used Craftybase, Stocksmith is that product going forward. Existing accounts carried over with pricing and plans unchanged. New sign-ups land on the Stocksmith brand and its current pricing ladder — $49 to $349/mo, with a $20 single-channel Pro tier in their FAQ.
How much does Stocksmith cost?
Checked 11 August 2026, stocksmith.io/pricing lists Studio at $49/mo ($41 billed annually), Indie at $99/mo, Business at $199/mo, and Growth at $349/mo, with order lines metered on the published tiers — 1,000/mo on Indie, up to 5,000 on Business, 5,000+ on Growth. Their pricing FAQ also says Pro starts at $20/mo for a single sales channel at very low order volume.
What is a good Stocksmith alternative for a small maker?
MadeKeeper is built for the one-bench, one-booth, one-kitchen-table maker that Stocksmith's new positioning leaves out: materials and true cost per piece, batch makes with labor amortized, a suggested-price coach, product variants, lot tracking, sales in one place, per-event craft-fair profit, money reports, consignment, mileage, and a Schedule C tax packet — all on the $19 plan, kept at $19 for as long as you stay, no order-line meters and nothing moved out of the plan later. Your full Stocksmith export migrates over — purchases to lots, production runs to batches, orders to sales on their original dates — previewed and one-click undoable. The app is live.
Should I switch off Stocksmith?
Not always. If you already have a Stocksmith account and you were grandfathered at a price that works, and the software fits, there is no reason to move. And if you genuinely run at manufacturing scale — employees, wholesale through Faire, production scheduling — Stocksmith is the better tool and MadeKeeper is not trying to be. The switch makes sense if you are shopping their current ladder for a kitchen-table business, which is a different thing than the software was first built for.
See your real numbers
The app is live. $19/mo, kept for as long as you stay.