The Jewelry Maker Who Refused to Guess
When Jessie Walter turned her jewelry making into a business, she tracked every bead from day one. Seven years later, Craftybase is still the financial foundation she builds on.
Meet Jessie.
When Jessie Walter started turning her jewelry making into a proper business, she made a decision most people don't: she'd track her costs from day one. Every bead, every finding, every inch of wire. Not because she liked admin. Because she knew what happened to makers who guessed at their margins and hoped for the best.
The Problem: Jewelry Math Is Different
The hard part was finding software that actually understood how jewelry works. She tried Jewelry Maker Pro. She looked at a few others. None of them tracked components the way a jewelry business needs — where the cost of a finished piece lives in dozens of small parts, each bought by the gram or the strand or the gross.
A Google search for "inventory tracking for jewelry makers" led her to Craftybase. Her husband — a software engineer — briefly weighed up whether he should just build something. That conversation ended quickly once he looked at what Craftybase could do.
It lets me work quickly and get back to actually making things.
Know the cost of every piece you make — down to the per-bead level.
Try Craftybase free for 14 daysHow Jessie Uses Craftybase Today
She's been using Craftybase since 2017. What it gives Jessie isn't just inventory tracking — it's a financial foundation she can rely on. She knows the cost of every piece she makes, down to the per-bead level. Jessie runs both a handmade jewelry line and a retail bead supply operation, and auto-manufacture handles inventory adjustments for both sides of the business.
At tax time she runs her Schedule C report and she's done — no spreadsheet archaeology. Whether she's selling a finished necklace or a bag of retail beads for resale, the system stays current.
Seven years on, Craftybase is still the right answer. Even though her husband could probably build something by now.
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