Losing precious time & money to inventory issues and production problems? Get a clear handle on your production process and real-time visibility into your inventory, so you can make the decisions you need to grow your business.
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Keep sortable, searchable lists of all your material inventory with photos - available online, whereever you are. Maintain full purchase histories and have Craftybase auto calculate your rolling average unit prices. Create recipes for commonly used combinations of materials, with associated recommended pricing guidance and detailed profit margin calculations. 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.
Craftybase uses your exact cost of materials and labor to generate pricing suggestions for every product you make. Use our software to price with confidence and make sure you are hitting the profit margins you need to take your small manufacturing business to the next level.
Craftybase helped us make sure we were accounting for everything in our prices, and helped us quickly test what would happen if we changed suppliers to upgrade some of our materials.
Our calculations are GAAP compliant, using IRS approved methods and are suitable for small and medium sized manufacturing businesses. Each order is automatically assigned a material usage cost based on your complete inventory history: rather than wrangling excel spreadsheets and stressing over EOY counts, you'll be building up your COGS tally during the year as you make and sell.
Having a small 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.
There is no need to track your compliance requirements separately to your inventory: Craftybase provides you with full traceability of all products and materials. Log purchases with lot numbers and associate with your manufacture records to create 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 batch of material - perfect to handle material faults and product recalls!
Our powerful inventory adjustments capabilities can handle any stock change including cancellations, damage and stock loss situations. Automatically import your orders and products from sales channels, and see detailed profit breakdowns for orders that include your material costs and incurred 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 maker business.
Generate traditional, bookkeeper-friendly reports to provide you with the detail you need to be on top of your small manufacturing business: Profit and Loss, Expenditure & Revenue, Inventory Valuation, Schedule C (COGS). Our popular product and high revenue customer reports gives you the visibility you need to make better decisions for your business. Instant profitability guidance feature allows you to see a full breakdown on 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.
Craftybase gives you powerful tools to ensure you are completely on top of your stock located in different physical locations. Create unlimited location records, transfer stock to locations and assign sales to locations. Utilise our location revenue and expense reporting to get a "birds eye view" of your small manufacturing business.
Craftybase's powerful stocktaking features will finally free you from huge end of year counts and instead will help ensure you are keeping accurate stock numbers right through the year. Material lists can be quickly generated, either randomly, by category or even based on how long it has been since the last count. Instant feedback is provided about your stock count accuracy, allowing you to review and take any action to rectify the discrepancy.
Craftybase, overall, has helped me streamline my inventory expenses, keep consistent unit costs and allowed me to see through the Reports section, my small manufacturing business grow each year.
Scalable Solutions
As your business expands, the Craftybase platform grows with you. It's an integrated MRP system built specifically for small businesses: production scheduling, inventory tracking, COGS reporting, and sales channel sync in one affordable system. Flexible plans to fit your industry and preferences.
No long term contracts, no over-engineered features you'll never use. Just everything you need to run your small-batch business with confidence.
Get real-time visibility into your inventory and take control of your end-to-end manufacturing process.
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Craftybase is the only inventory and manufacturing platform built specifically for small-batch makers who need recipe costing, COGS tracking, and sales channel sync in one affordable system.
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Daily, Automatic Imports
Pricing Guidance
Cost of Goods Sold (COGS)
Lot Tracking & Expiry Dates
Reports & Charts
Low Stock Alerts
Trusted by makers worldwide
I'm impressed with the ability to track minute quantities of essential oils and other materials used in multiple products. I love the conversion from purchase to tracking units, and love the ability to make components and recipes.
Elise WishlowElise Wishlow
Craftybase has given me the tools amp; resources to accurately track my materials, recipes, and inventory. I love that I can build out my recipes and make adjustments to see my cost in real time.
Tiffany JensenTiffany Jensen
Being able to track manufactures, along with product & material inventory has made me able to efficiently manage my time spent on those tasks.
Kathy PattersonKathy Patterson
I no longer have to do manual inventory - what else is there to say?! I love the manufactures and managing supplies... especially with two online channels and selling at shows.
Shelly
Tracking all my inventory, projects, invoices, contacts in one place and being able to run reports to see how my business is doing has helped me run my business a little easier.
AmandaAmanda
Having real time inventory, pricing guidance, and expense tracking makes the paperwork of owning a business simpler. Keeping all of the information in one place makes it ideal.
HeatherHeather
Craftybase has been a wonderful tool in running my business. I love that I can look at reports and know exactly what I have in inventory and also see what my total sales are.
AliciaAlicia
Being able to create "recipes" for each of our products has made managing our material inventory a breeze! It's a dream come true to always be on top of our inventory levels!
KaraKara
We no longer have to wonder how much of something we have in stock. It's much easier for me to sell my product when I know how much is on the shelf!
CaitlinCaitlin
I love that the app keeps track of how much material I have on hand and how much it costs me exactly… This allows me to really know how much my products cost me to make and how much I should charge.
JannaJanna
I love that Craftybase keeps track of the cost of materials over time including shipping. As costs creep up I can make sure my product prices reflect that reality.
ArrowynArrowyn
Thanks to Craftybase I can run my entire business off one program and can always stay on top of my ingredient inventory, sales and stock levels. I don't know where I would be without it!
PaulinePauline
I went into business because I had great ideas for products, not because I was good at keeping track of numbers. Craftybase lets my brain do it's creative work by taking care of the nitty-gritty.
AmyAmy
Manufacturing software and your maker business
For small business manufacturers, spreadsheets may seem like a practical way to start tracking inventory and production operations. However, if you have larger ambitions for your company's growth, you will quickly find that this solution quickly becomes cumbersome and can lead to situations where you are spending more time wrangling excel formulae than working on your business.
Using modern inventory and manufacturing software such as Craftybase is a practical step for small manufacturers who want to get on top of their operations. With the right system, you can track inventory levels accurately, see detailed reports on production processes, monitor stock movements in real time, and get a clearer picture of your supply chain. It cuts the time spent on manual data entry, surfaces the numbers you need to make better decisions, and gives you a foundation to scale without adding overhead.
Best manufacturing scheduling software
The best manufacturing scheduling software for small business combines production planning, real-time inventory tracking, and COGS reporting in one affordable, cloud-based system.
As a small business owner, you know that it’s essential to make the most of every penny. As a small manufacturing business, you also have to optimize your entire supply chain - that’s a lot to take on in between making sure you are making and shipping quality products to your customers. That’s why having the best manufacturing software to help you track your production is essential for your small business success.
While we'd recommend Craftybase as your complete manufacturing solution, it's worth reviewing the options to make sure you're choosing the right fit for your small business:
Manufacturing scheduling software helps businesses plan, sequence, and track production runs so that raw materials, labour, and equipment are used efficiently. For small manufacturers, it typically combines a production queue, recipe or bill-of-materials costing, inventory tracking, and order management in a single system — replacing the spreadsheets and guesswork that slow production down.
The best option depends on your product type, but for small-batch makers who handcraft or assemble their own products, Craftybase is purpose-built: it combines production scheduling, recipe-based costing, real-time inventory, and Etsy/Shopify integration in one cloud-based system. For a broader comparison of options, see our guide to the best manufacturing software for small business.
Craftybase lets you log manufacture records against your recipes, track materials consumed per production run, and see in real time how current stock levels affect what you can make next. Low-stock alerts notify you when materials are running short before they block production, so you can reorder proactively rather than reactively.
Yes. Craftybase supports both make-to-order (producing against a specific customer order) and batch production (making a quantity of finished goods for stock). You can record manufactures at any scale, link them to orders, and track material usage and labour time for each run — giving you accurate COGS regardless of how you produce.
Yes. Craftybase automatically imports orders and products from Shopify, Etsy, WooCommerce, Amazon, and other sales channels each night. Incoming orders are visible alongside your production queue, so you can see demand against current stock and plan manufacture runs accordingly — without manually copying data between systems.
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