Alternative to Zoho Inventory
Wanting an alternative to Zoho Inventory? Try Craftybase.
Craftybase is a full featured inventory system designed specifically for small manufacturing businesses like you. Spend more time making — and making money.
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What does Craftybase do that Zoho inventory can't?
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Cost of Goods Sold (COGS)
automatically updated as you buy materials and sell products. |
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Manufacturing inventory management
track your material usage when you make your products. |
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Batch tracking
track batches of your products from raw materials through to sale |
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Pricing guidance
based on COGS, labor, and expenses. |
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Product & materials compliance & traceability |
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Stocktaking & consignment features built expressly to keep you on top of inventory |
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Pricing how do our equivalent plans stack up against each other? |
$49/mo | $166/mo |
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Effortlessly keep track of your
Cost of Goods Sold (COGS)
With Craftybase, every order is assigned a material usage cost that’s based on your complete inventory history. So instead of wrangling Excel spreadsheets and stressing over EOY counts, you'll build up your COGS tally during the year as you make and sell. Craftybase calculations are GAAP compliant and use IRS-approved methods, making our COGS tracking ideal for U.S.-based small manufacturers.
Having a business that manufactures products with countless raw materials, Craftybase keeps us organized and helps us have a clear picture of the health of our business.
Stay compliant with transparency &
traceability
There’s no need to manage your compliance requirements separately from your inventory — because Craftybase makes all your products and materials fully traceable.
All you need to do: Log material purchases with lot numbers, and associate those lot numbers with your manufacture records. Then, Craftybase creates a purchase-to-sale, GMP and CPSC traceability solution for your small manufacturing business.
Generate a full report in seconds that shows exactly which orders contain a particular lot or batch of material — so that even when you have to recall a product or replace a faulty material, you already know which orders were affected.
Track all your orders, products & stock
in one place
Whatever happens, Craftybase has you covered. Our powerful inventory adjustments capabilities can handle any stock change — including cancellations, damage, and stock loss.
Plus, automatically import your orders and products from sales channels, and see detailed profit breakdowns for orders (including material costs and expenses).
Craftybase has helped track my customer orders, how much they cost and how much they cost me to make them, keeping me on top of my orders which is so important to my little business.
Log & categorize your
expenses
Track both direct and indirect expenses in Craftybase, using as many custom categories as you like. Purchases are associated with your materials, so that your unit pricing and inventory asset value are automatically calculated based on landed actual costs.
You can also associate expenses with products or orders, allowing you to see your true, exact profit margins for everything you sell.
Being able to categorize expenses and see where each project is costing me has helped me to understand my business and pinpoint areas of high value or expense.
Automatically sort, search, and
manage inventory
Meet the last inventory system you’ll ever need. Keep sortable, searchable lists of all your material inventory (with photos!) that are always available online, wherever you are.
Maintain full purchase histories without trying, and even have Craftybase auto-calculate your rolling average unit prices.
Plus, you can create recipes for commonly used combinations of materials, with recommended pricing and detailed profit margin calculations for each recipe. You can even track the hidden costs of making sub-assemblies using components.
Being able to easily add and subtract materials from my master inventory based on daily sales is invaluable in keeping organized & proactive. Managing inventory was a painful, manual, and inaccurate process before I discovered Craftybase.
Generate useful reports
for business insight, taxes & more
Be your bookkeeper’s new favorite client — or just be a better bookkeeper for yourself. Craftybase generates traditional, bookkeeper-friendly reports that slice and dice your data into useful insights. Reports include Profit and Loss, Expenditure & Revenue, Inventory Valuation, and Schedule C (COGS).
Plus, our Popular Product and High Revenue Customer reports give you insight into where your time and focus will yield the best results. And with Instant Profitability Guidance, you can see a full profit breakdown of any of your products or orders.
Craftybase, overall, has helped me streamline my inventory expenses, keep consistent unit costs and allowed me to see through the Reports section, my business grow each year.
Makers tell us these are their favorite features 👇
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Everything in one place
- Finally: your sales, stock, and financial data in one safe place. Your data is accessible from any Internet-enabled device, and always securely backed up.
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Daily Imports from Etsy, Amazon, Wix and more...
- Stop manually copying over numbers from screens to spreadsheets! Craftybase automatically imports your products and orders each night, so you’re ready to start your day.
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Pricing Guidance
- Know exactly how much it costs to make your products. Our smart Pricing Guidance feature keeps you on top of your margins and profits, even when your COGS change
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Cost of Goods Sold (COGS)
- Track your cost of goods sold in real time, using the data you enter. We'll even generate the numbers you need for your Schedule C at the touch of a button.
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Reports & Charts
- Always know how well your maker store is doing with detailed, useful reports. No one likes staring at stacks of numbers — so we present your vital stats using easy-to-understand charts and graphs.
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Low Stock Alerts
- Track your exact material and product stock levels, so you know exactly when you need to order more supplies or make more product to list on your sales channels. Don't run out of stock ever again, and keep those sales rolling in!
