For fifteen years, Craftybase was the tool small makers used to track materials, know their cost per piece, and survive tax time. In 2026 it became Stocksmith and said out loud who it's for now: "$100K+ in revenue, employees in the workshop." If you're the maker that positioning leaves out, MadeKeeper is being built for you: $19/mo, founding rate locked for life, no order-line meters — ever.
Honest up front: MadeKeeper is a founding pilot — the product ships this fall. The free fair-profit calculator is live today.
The facts, dated and sourced, because you should check them yourself. And the first fact cuts against the easy story:
Nobody got kicked out. The rebrand finished on 1 July 2026 — the name switched across the product, craftybase.com now redirects to stocksmith.io, and card statements say STOCKSMITH — but their announcement is explicit: "Your pricing, billing date, and plan are all unchanged." If you're an existing customer and the software fits, you were grandfathered, full stop.
The squeeze came earlier, a step at a time. The Wayback Machine has the receipts: entry pricing was $9/mo in 2019 with unlimited orders on every tier, $24/mo by 2022, then in 2023 came order-line caps — sell more, pay more — and by early 2026 the headline plan was $49/mo. Along the way, basics like automatically deducting materials when something sells were gated above the entry tier. Reviewers called it what it felt like: "Company raised prices by 3x," "price went up x5," an "obvious 'money grab'." Price is the single most common complaint in the public review corpus — roughly 35 mentions by our count.
Then the rebrand said the quiet part plainly. Their about page describes the customer they're building 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." And from the announcement: "somewhere along the way, the customer became a manufacturer."
Today's pricing ladder starts at $49/mo. As of late July 2026, stocksmith.io/pricing lists Studio at $49/mo ($41 annual) as the "just getting started" plan, then Indie $99, Business $199, Growth $349. To be complete: a $20/mo Pro option survives in their pricing FAQ for sellers with "a single sales channel with very low order volume," capped hard on order lines. If that fits you and you trust the ladder, it may honestly be your cheapest path today.
None of this is a scandal — it's a fifteen-year-old bootstrapped company (4.62 stars on Capterra across 241 reviews, per their own about page) choosing its customer. So this page is for the three groups that choice leaves shopping: makers who already walked during the 2023–24 repricing, makers who read "$100K+ and employees" and know that's a different world, and new makers who just landed on a $49 pricing page for a kitchen-table business.
One column is a mature 15-year-old product that is genuinely good at what it now aims at. The other is a pilot that ships this fall. The comparison is about who each one is for, what it costs, and the specific gaps makers reported in the old one.
| MadeKeeper | Stocksmith (was Craftybase) | |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | Small makers — craft fairs, farmers markets, Etsy | "$100K+ in revenue, employees in the workshop" (their about page) |
| Price | $19/mo founding rate, locked for life | Studio $49/mo; main plans $99–$349/mo (a $20 single-channel Pro tier sits in their FAQ) |
| Price trust | The founding rate never rises on you — that's the whole point of it | Entry price went $9 (2019) → $24 (2022) → $49 headline (2026), per Wayback snapshots |
| Order-line meters | Never. A good month should not raise your software bill | Order-line caps by plan since 2023 (1,000–5,000+/mo on current tiers) |
| Ships today | Pilot — fall 2026. Free fair calculator live now | Yes — mature, 15 years in |
| Materials, recipes & cost per piece | Building — the core of the pilot, kept faithfully: materials in, recipe, make, costs roll up | Yes — automatic COGS is their most-loved feature, and it's earned |
| Setup before you see value | An afternoon — the spreadsheet import is live today: paste your sheet (or drop the CSV/Excel file, including a Craftybase export — its column names map automatically), check the preview, done. AI receipt reading is still on the build list | Reviewers' most common non-price complaint: "I need like a week to set up," "overwhelming" (~25 mentions) |
| Craft-fair / per-event profit | Building the event itself: booth fee, miles, hours, weather and booth-position notes → profit per fair, ranked. Free calculator live today | No event entity exists in the product — a fair is just another day of sales |
| Stock counts pushed back to channels | Planned — finished-goods counts pushed back up to your shop | One-way: orders come down, stock never goes back up ("no additional sync option that pushes product counts up to Shopify, Amazon, Etsy" — Capterra reviewer) |
| Off the recipe path | Forgiving by design — buy-and-resell items and selling off raw materials are first-class | Recipe-centric; reviewers say it fits "handmade which uses set recipes without a lot of variation" |
| Mileage & Schedule C packet | Building — drives logged at the IRS rate, year-end "hand it to your tax guy" packet | Schedule C reporting is a strength ("life/marriage saver at tax time" — Capterra reviewer) |
| BOMs, lot tracking, production scheduling | Not building it — we're not for manufacturers | Yes — batch & lot tracking, scheduling on Business+ |
Stocksmith positioning, pricing, and features per stocksmith.io's about and pricing pages as checked in late July 2026; historical prices per the archive.org snapshots linked above; reviewer quotes from public Capterra reviews of Craftybase (capterra.com/p/144117/Craftybase/reviews/). All of it may change. Craftybase and Stocksmith are trademarks of their owner (Stocksmith Pty Ltd); MadeKeeper is independent and not affiliated with or endorsed by either. MadeKeeper rows describe what the founding pilot is building unless marked live.
Their announcement says your pricing, billing date, and plan are unchanged by the rebrand. If the software fits and the price you're grandfathered at is fair, there's no fire to flee. This page is for makers shopping at the new prices, not a reason to leave working software.
Employees, wholesale through Faire, production batches, lot numbers for compliance — that's exactly who Stocksmith says it's for now, and fifteen years of product shows. MadeKeeper isn't building any of that. Stay, and godspeed.
It rebranded to Stocksmith, completing the switch on 1 July 2026 — same product, same team, same data, and craftybase.com redirects to stocksmith.io. Existing customers' pricing and plans are unchanged. What changed is the positioning: the brand now aims at small manufacturers with $100K+ in revenue and employees.
No. Everyone was grandfathered. The squeeze on small makers happened earlier and gradually — entry pricing went from $9/mo in 2019 to $24/mo in 2022 to a $49/mo headline by 2026, order-line caps arrived in 2023, and some basics moved up-tier. Many of the makers shopping for alternatives left during that stretch, not on rebrand day.
As of July 2026: Studio $49/mo ($41 annual), Indie $99, Business $199, Growth $349 — with order-line caps by plan. A $20/mo Pro tier survives in their pricing FAQ for single-channel, very-low-volume sellers.
We're building MadeKeeper to be exactly that: the small-maker core Craftybase was loved for — materials, recipes, cost per piece, sales in one place, tax-time reports — plus per-event fair profit and AI data entry, at $19/mo locked for life with no order-line meters. The honest caveat, again: it's a pilot, shipping this fall.
No, and it won't. No production scheduling, no wholesale operations, no multi-location manufacturing. If you need those, Stocksmith is the better tool. We're building for the booth and the kitchen table.
$19/mo, locked for life. Founding members keep that rate for as long as they stay subscribed, even after the public price rises. Given the history that brought you to this page, we'll say it plainly: the locked rate is the answer to price creep. No order-line meters, ever — a good month should never raise your bill.
You steer the build. The pilot builds the small-maker core first — materials and cost per piece, Square + Etsy, per-event profit, mileage, the tax packet, AI setup. Founding members' answers to "what do you make?" set the order.
Zero customers, zero testimonials. Every claim on this page about MadeKeeper is a plan, stated plainly, and every claim about Craftybase/Stocksmith is sourced and linked above. That's the deal.