Craftybase Alternatives and Stocksmith Alternatives for Etsy and Shopify Makers
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In short
The main Craftybase alternatives are Inventora ($23, $48 or $120 a month, about 18% less billed yearly), Ardent Seller (a no-cost tier for very small shops, then $180, $480 or $888 a year), Zoho Inventory (from $29 a month billed yearly for up to 500 orders), Katana (Core from $299 a month, built for real production floors) and QuickBooks Online Plus ($140 a month, inventory inside your books). Craftybase itself is now called Stocksmith and starts at $20 a month on the one-channel Pro plan billed yearly, then $41 for Studio and $83 for Indie. If the reason you looked at Craftybase was to see what each Etsy or Shopify month actually paid you after fees, rather than to cost out materials, Earnly is the lighter tool: it reads your Etsy monthly statement and other payout files and shows gross, every fee and take-home per platform.
The honest read
Most Craftybase alternatives lists were written before two changes. On July 1, 2026 Craftybase became Stocksmith, and craftybase.com now redirects to stocksmith.io. The price ladder also moved: it now runs from a $20 Pro plan to $349 a month, while software directories still quote a Business plan at $149 that the vendor page shows at $199 month to month. Inventora gets the same treatment in reverse, with lists quoting $19, $39 and $99, which are its yearly-billed rates; month to month it is $23, $48 and $120. We read every price below on each vendor's own pricing page in late September 2026, and we say plainly where each tool beats ours. Earnly is not an inventory system. It sits on the income side, and we only recommend it where that is the problem you actually have.
Published prices
Craftybase alternatives by price, read on vendor pages in September 2026
US prices in USD before sales tax. Month-to-month price first, then the yearly-billed price where the vendor publishes one. Material costing means recipes or bills of materials that turn supply costs into a cost per finished unit.
| Tool | Month to month | Billed yearly | Channel or volume limit | Material costing | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stocksmith (was Craftybase) | $24 Pro, $49 Studio, $99 Indie, $199 Business, $349 Growth | $20 / $41 / $83 / $166 / $291 a month | Pro connects 1 channel; Indie 1,000 order lines a month, Business 5,000 | Yes, on every plan | Makers who need a true cost per unit |
| Inventora | $23 / $48 / $120 | About $19 / $39 / $99 a month (18% off) | 2, 3 or 5 integrations; sales unlimited | Yes, with batch traceability | Small-batch makers who want the lowest paid entry |
| Ardent Seller | Pay as you go at $1 a credit, 30 credits a month included | $180 / $480 / $888 a year | 1, 2 or 3 shops; 150, 500 or 1,500 transactions a month | Yes, recipes and production runs | Etsy shops with low or seasonal volume |
| Zoho Inventory | Higher than yearly, shown on the monthly toggle | $29 / $79 / $129 / $249 a month | 500 / 3,000 / 7,500 / 15,000 orders a month | Composite items and assemblies | Resellers and multi-warehouse sellers |
| Katana | Core from $299 | Annual contracts on Advantage | Scoped per business | Yes, full manufacturing resource planning | Manufacturers with a production floor |
| QuickBooks Online Plus | $140 | Varies by promotion | Sales channels through sync apps | No recipes; tracks finished goods at cost | Sellers who want inventory inside the books |
Stocksmith describes Pro on its pricing FAQ as $20 a month billed yearly or $24 month to month, for one sales channel; you can run two shops on that one channel, such as two Etsy stores, but a second, different channel needs Studio or above. Studio and every plan above it include unlimited sales channel integrations. Inventora sells extra team members at $9, $12 or $15 a month depending on plan. Ardent Seller also keeps a no-cost tier capped at 50 transactions a month and one shop. Katana lists a no-cost plan next to Core. Zoho Inventory prices are per organization.
Published prices
What a year costs for three real maker shops
Subscription only, cheapest plan on each tool that fits the shop, yearly billing with the month-to-month total in brackets. Payment processing and marketplace fees are the same whichever tool you choose, so they are left out here.
| Shop | Stocksmith (Craftybase) | Inventora | Ardent Seller |
|---|---|---|---|
| Solo candle maker, Etsy only, about 120 orders a month | Pro, $240 ($288) | Starter, about $226 ($276) | Maker, $180, 150 transactions a month |
| Two people selling on Etsy and Shopify | Studio, $492 ($588) | Starter covers 2 integrations and 2 team members, about $226 ($276) | Artisan, $480, 2 shops and 3 users |
| Team of five, Etsy, Shopify and wholesale, about 900 order lines a month | Indie, $990 ($1,188) | Business, 5 team members and 3 integrations, about $472 ($576) | Workshop, $888, 3 shops and 5 users, 1,500 transactions a month |
Inventora yearly figures apply its stated 18% saving to the monthly price. The limits are not measured in the same unit, which the section below explains, so a busy shop can fit one tool comfortably and hit the cap on another. Ardent Seller counts purchases, production runs and adjustments as transactions too, not only sales.
Why makers look for a Craftybase alternative
Three things come up again and again. The first is the jump between tiers. Pro at $20 a month billed yearly is cheap, but it connects one sales channel, so the day you add Shopify next to Etsy you are on Studio at $41, and the day you have a small team pushing past Studio you are looking at Indie at $83 a month billed yearly, or $99 month to month. The second is the unit it bills on: Indie includes 1,000 order lines a month and Business 5,000, and an order with three different products counts as three lines, so a shop that sells bundles uses its allowance faster than its order count suggests. The third is the rename. Stocksmith is the same product, team and data, but the new positioning is openly aimed at small manufacturers, and some solo makers read that as a sign the tool has grown past them.
Inventora, the closest like-for-like switch
Inventora is the nearest equivalent: materials, products, production cards and full batch traceability, built for the same soap, candle, cosmetics and jewelry makers Craftybase grew up with. Starter is $23 a month with 500 materials, 500 product variants, 2 integrations and 2 team members, Business is $48 with 2,000 of each and 5 team members, and Growth is $120. Paying yearly saves 18%. Sales are unlimited on every paid plan, which is the real difference from Stocksmith: Inventora caps what you stock, not how much you sell. A shop with a short product list and a lot of orders tends to be cheaper on Inventora. A shop with thousands of variants and modest volume can be cheaper on Stocksmith.
Ardent Seller, the lowest cost for a small Etsy shop
Ardent Seller gives every feature on every plan and separates the plans only by volume, team size and storage. Maker is $180 a year for 150 transactions a month, 2 users and one connected shop, Artisan $480 a year for 500 transactions and two shops, and Workshop $888 a year for 1,500 transactions and three shops. There is also pay as you go at $1 a credit with 30 credits included every month, which suits a shop that sells mostly around the holidays. Etsy and Shopify connect today. Before you commit, count your month in its unit: a purchase of supplies, a production run and a stock adjustment each count as a transaction, not only a sale, so a maker who logs every batch can use the allowance faster than orders alone would suggest.
Katana and Zoho Inventory, when you outgrow maker tools
Katana is manufacturing resource planning for businesses with a real production floor: work orders, shop floor control, purchasing and multi-location stock, with Core priced from $299 a month and custom annual contracts above that. It is the right answer for a brand turning out thousands of units a week, and far more than an Etsy shop needs. Zoho Inventory comes at the problem from the reseller side, with order caps of 500, 3,000, 7,500 and 15,000 a month on plans from $29 to $249 billed yearly, per organization. It handles composite items and assemblies, multi-warehouse stock and shipping well, but it does not cost a candle down to the wick the way a maker tool does. If your main headache is reordering finished stock before it runs out, rather than costing materials, look at inventory forecasting software built for exactly that job.
QuickBooks Online Plus, inventory inside the books
Some sellers skip a separate inventory tool and track finished goods in QuickBooks Online Plus, which is $140 a month after the August 2026 increase. QuickBooks values stock with first in, first out and posts cost of goods sold when an item sells, so your books and your stock stay in one place. What it does not do is recipes: it will not deduct twelve materials when you make a batch of twelve candles. Makers who need that usually pair QuickBooks with Stocksmith, whose full QuickBooks inventory sync sits on the Growth plan. See our QuickBooks Plus pricing page for the renewal math.
Order lines, transactions and orders are not the same unit
This is the comparison most lists skip, and it decides which plan you really need. Take one Etsy order for three different products. Stocksmith counts it as three order lines against a monthly allowance. Ardent Seller counts it as one sales transaction, but the supply purchase and the production run behind it are separate transactions. Inventora does not meter sales at all; it limits materials and product variants instead. Zoho Inventory counts one order. So a shop with 300 orders a month averaging two products each uses 600 Stocksmith order lines, 300 Zoho orders and perhaps 450 Ardent transactions once purchases and batches are logged. Run your own last busy month through each rule before you pick a tier.
The part no inventory tool answers
Every tool above tells you what a product cost to make. None of them is built to tell you what Etsy, Shopify, PayPal and Stripe actually paid out last month after their fees, side by side. On Etsy that gap is real money: a $40 order carries a $0.20 listing fee, a 6.5% transaction fee of $2.60 and roughly 3% plus $0.25 in US payment processing, about $4.25 before Offsite Ads, which add 12% or 15% on the orders they bring in. Earnly imports your Etsy monthly statement with every fee line and puts it next to your other platforms, with gross, fees, take-home and the expected payout date on one row per source. Read more on the Etsy sales tracker, try the numbers in the Etsy fee calculator, or see how the pieces fit on Etsy bookkeeping software. For the full Stocksmith price ladder, see Craftybase pricing.
Side by side
Where the boards differ
| What you get | Earnly | Craftybase |
|---|---|---|
| Recipes, bills of materials and cost per unit | No | Yes |
| Automatic cost of goods sold and inventory valuation | No | Yes |
| Stock sync across sales channels | No | Automatic from Business |
| Etsy monthly statement import with every fee line | Yes | Imports orders for stock, not fee statements |
| Per-platform gross -> fees -> take-home | Yes | No |
| Payout calendar for Etsy, Shopify, PayPal, Stripe and more | Yes | No |
| Income from YouTube, Patreon, Ko-fi and other non-shop sources | Yes | No |
| Price | Solo, Creator and Studio plans | From $20/mo billed yearly |
Comparison reflects published pricing and feature descriptions at the time of our last check; both products change. Pick the tool that fits how you earn. See what the board looks like on the income tracker homepage, or start with the revenue dashboard.
Questions people actually ask
What is better than Craftybase?
It depends on what you need. For the same maker workflow with unlimited sales, Inventora is the closest match from $23 a month. For a small Etsy shop on a tight budget, Ardent Seller Maker at $180 a year. For a real production floor, Katana from $299 a month. If you do not make goods from materials and mainly want to see income after platform fees, an income tracker such as Earnly fits better than any inventory tool.
Is Craftybase free?
No. Craftybase, now Stocksmith, has no permanent no-cost plan. Every plan comes with a 14-day trial with no card required. The cheapest paid plan is Pro at $20 a month billed yearly or $24 month to month, which connects one sales channel. Studio is $41 a month billed yearly and adds unlimited channels and multiple users.
Is Craftybase the same as Stocksmith?
Yes. Craftybase renamed itself Stocksmith, with the change in effect from July 1, 2026. It is the same product, the same team and the same data, and the company says it was not sold or acquired. craftybase.com now redirects to stocksmith.io, and card statements show STOCKSMITH instead of CRAFTYBASE.
How much does Craftybase cost per month?
Billed yearly, Stocksmith costs $20 a month on Pro, $41 on Studio, $83 on Indie, $166 on Business and $291 on Growth. Month to month the same plans are $24, $49, $99, $199 and $349. Indie includes 1,000 order lines a month and Business 5,000, and yearly billing saves about 17%. Full ladder and worked examples are on our Craftybase pricing page.
Is Inventora cheaper than Craftybase?
Usually, for shops that sell a lot of a few products. Inventora Starter is $23 a month with unlimited sales, against $24 for Stocksmith Pro on one channel or $49 for Studio on several. Inventora limits materials and variants instead of orders, so a shop with thousands of variants can end up cheaper on Stocksmith.
Is Craftybase worth it?
For a maker costing products from many materials, often yes, because hand-tracking cost of goods sold across dozens of recipes is slow and error-prone. It earns its price once material tracking takes you a weekend a quarter. Sellers of digital downloads, print on demand or resold goods have no materials to cost and should not pay for it.
Does Craftybase work with QuickBooks?
Yes. Stocksmith lists QuickBooks purchase order sync and, on the Growth plan at $291 a month billed yearly, full QuickBooks inventory sync. Most makers on lower plans export cost of goods sold figures to their accountant or into QuickBooks as a monthly journal entry.
Can I use Earnly instead of Craftybase?
Not for materials. Earnly does not track supplies, recipes or cost of goods sold. It tracks income: every Etsy, Shopify, PayPal, Stripe, YouTube and Patreon payout with gross, fees and take-home. Many makers run an inventory tool for costs and Earnly for what each platform actually paid.