Craftybase alternative
Two things are worth knowing before you compare Craftybase to anything. It has renamed itself Stocksmith, so the software you read reviews about is now at a different address under a different name. And it is inventory and cost-of-goods software for makers who build products from raw materials, while Broidry is order-management software for machine embroidery shops. Those are two different problems. This page lays out what each one does so you can work out which one you were shopping for, and there's a real answer at the end for shops that want both.
craftybase.com and its pricing page redirect to stocksmith.io. Their own wording is "Craftybase → Stocksmith · Same team, same software — just a new name." Most people shopping this software still type Craftybase, so if you searched that and landed somewhere called Stocksmith, you are in the right place.
Plans are now Studio $49, Indie $99, Business $199, and Growth $349 a month, with unlimited users on the paid tiers. There's a 14-day trial with no card, and no free plan. Checked July 2026 on their own pricing page.
Stocksmith is inventory and cost-of-goods software for makers who build products out of raw materials. Broidry is order management for machine embroidery shops. Neither one replaces the other, and running both is a reasonable setup.
There are several rows here that Stocksmith does and Broidry does not. If tracking your costs down to the raw materials is the problem you are solving, the answer is on the left.
| Item | Craftybase, now Stocksmith | Broidry |
|---|---|---|
| The job it does | Inventory and cost of goods for makers who turn raw materials into finished products. | Order management for machine embroidery shops taking custom, personalized work. |
| Raw material inventory | The core of the product. Materials are tracked down to the component, and bills of materials tie each material to the finished product it goes into. | Not tracked. Broidry tracks finished blanks, meaning the garments and bags you buy in to decorate, with on-hand counts by color and size and a wholesale cost on each one. |
| True cost per unit | What the software is built to calculate, from material costs through batch production. | Partial, and worth being precise about. Each paid order carries a materials cost from the blank, and the export gives inventory value, cost of goods sold, and gross margin. Thread and stabilizer are counted as purchases rather than split across individual orders, and there's no purchase-lot cost history. |
| Batch production runs | Yes, with materials consumed by the batch. | No. The production queue is one custom piece at a time, sorted by ship date. |
| Selling-platform connections | Syncs with selling platforms including Shopify, Amazon, and Faire. | Order CSV files from seven selling platforms import directly, and Broidry gives you a shop page of your own. There's no live marketplace sync. |
| Custom orders from Facebook, Etsy, text, and email | Not what an inventory tool is for. | One list with a price, a status, and a due date, whichever channel the order arrived through. |
| The spec on the order | Not part of it. | Wording, font, placement, thread color, size, and quantity are fields the customer fills in, so they land on the order instead of staying in a message thread. |
| Design, thread, and font library | Not part of it. | Your stitch files, your thread colors by number, and your fonts are stored and searchable, and each finished order keeps a record of what went onto it. |
| Customer approves a mockup before stitching | Not part of it. | The customer approves a preview drawn on your real garment in your real threads, and the approval is stored on the order with the date. |
| Production queue by ship date | Not part of it. | Sorted by ship date, with an estimated machine time on each order and a flag on the ones likely to miss their date. |
| Cheapest plan | Studio, $49 a month. | Free, $0 a month, with the core features included. |
| Plan ladder | Studio $49, Indie $99, Business $199, Growth $349 a month. | Free $0, Maker $19, Shop $39, Atelier $79 a month. |
| Free plan or trial | A 14-day trial with no card required. There's no free plan. | A permanent free plan with no card required. Broidry charges a 2% fee on payments taken through Broidry on that plan, and allows 15 orders a month that were paid outside it. |
| Users | Unlimited users on the paid tiers. | One person on Free and Maker. A second team seat comes with the Shop plan at $39 a month. |
| Who it's built for | Makers producing goods from raw materials. They say a solo maker or a small team of 1 to 10 people. | Solo and two-person machine embroidery shops. |
Competitor pricing checked July 2026 from each vendor's own pricing page. Software pricing moves, and this one moved recently, so check theirs before you decide.
This is a normal setup and nobody should feel talked into it or talked out of it. Broidry handles the orders and Stocksmith handles the materials and the books.
Look at who the other products in this space describe themselves as being for. Printavo's cheapest plan comes with two user seats. DecoNetwork bundles 3 to 25 staff accounts and starts at $239 a month. ShopWorks says OnSite fits shops doing $100,000 to $50 million a year. Every one of them is priced and worded around a shop with payroll.
Craftybase and Stocksmith are the exception. They say plainly that they're for a solo maker or a small team of 1 to 10 people, and the software is built that way. That's worth saying on a page like this, because it means we send people to them without hesitation when raw-material costing is the real problem. Broidry exists in the same spirit for a different job: the order side of a one-person machine embroidery shop, which nobody else in the category is building for.
So you can judge it against what you need rather than against what an inventory tool does.
These are the products that manage custom orders rather than materials. Prices were read from each vendor's own pricing page in July 2026.
Lite is $109 a month with two user seats as a minimum and a cap of 20 quotes or invoices a month combined. Standard is $244 a month with five seats and no cap. Premium is quoted by their sales team. There's a 7-day trial with no card, and no free plan. Built for print shops.
An all-in-one platform for print shops covering web stores, shop management, design tools, and supplier catalogs. Standard is $239 a month, Premium $339, Enterprise $439, with 3, 5, and 25 staff accounts bundled in and extra staff at $10 a month each. Every plan also carries a one-time license fee, and the amount isn't published on their pricing page. There's no trial; they publish a 14-day grace period and state that they don't offer refunds.
The one genuinely free product in this set: a free plan with 20 orders a month and a single user. Paid plans are sold by seat count, starting at $77 a month for one user and running to $718 a month for thirty. Built for screen printing shops.
ShopWorks doesn't publish pricing, seat counts, or trial terms anywhere on their site, so there's nothing here we can state about the cost. They describe OnSite as fitting shops doing $100,000 to $50 million a year.
Yes. Craftybase renamed itself Stocksmith. craftybase.com and its pricing page redirect to stocksmith.io, and their own wording is that it's the same team and the same software under a new name. Some older Craftybase links still resolve while the migration finishes, which is why search results and third-party reviews still say Craftybase.
The plans are Studio at $49 a month, Indie at $99, Business at $199, and Growth at $349, with unlimited users on the paid tiers and a 14-day trial that doesn't ask for a card. There's no free plan. The $20-a-month figure still showing up in search results is out of date. These figures were read from stocksmith.io/pricing in July 2026.
It's good at the job it does. If you're buying thread, stabilizer, backing, and blanks and you want an accurate cost per finished piece plus inventory valuation your accountant can use, that's exactly what Craftybase and Stocksmith are built for, and it works for embroidery as well as for any other kind of making. What it doesn't do is manage custom orders: there's nowhere for the wording, the font, the placement, the thread color, the customer's approval, or a queue sorted by ship date. That's a different tool.
No, and it would be dishonest to say otherwise. Broidry has no raw-material inventory, no bills of materials, and no batch production, so if material-level cost tracking is the problem you're solving, Stocksmith does it and Broidry doesn't. What Broidry does track is finished blanks with on-hand counts by color and size, a wholesale cost on each, and a materials cost on each paid order, and it exports inventory value, cost of goods sold, and gross margin as a CSV. That's enough for plenty of embroidery shops. It isn't the same thing as costing a product from its components.
Yes, and for some shops that's the right answer. Broidry handles the orders coming in, the spec on each one, the customer approval, the queue, and getting paid. Stocksmith handles materials, cost per unit, and the inventory numbers your books need. Broidry exports a CSV of every order, payment, and expense, so the money side has a clean way out. They cost $0 or $19 and $49 respectively at the entry tiers, which is a smaller monthly bill than most single products in this category.
If the reason you were looking at Craftybase was custom orders scattered across Facebook, Etsy, text, and email, then it was never the tool for that and neither are its inventory competitors. Broidry is built for that specific problem in a machine embroidery shop and starts free. In the order-management lane the other options are Printavo at $109 a month, DecoNetwork at $239 plus a one-time license fee whose amount isn't published, Teesom with a free plan capped at 20 orders a month, and ShopWorks, who don't publish a price.
The Free plan is $0 a month with the core features, a 2% fee on payments taken through Broidry, and 15 orders a month that were paid outside Broidry. Maker is $19 a month and drops the fee to 1.5%, removes Broidry's branding from your storefront and mockups, and lifts the order cap. Shop is $39 a month and adds a second team seat, a custom domain, and the marketing tools. Atelier is $79 a month for shops running more than one machine. There's no contract and no cancellation fee.
Broidry is order-management software for machine embroidery shops. Your designs, threads, and fonts live in one searchable library. Orders from Etsy, Facebook, text, and email land on one list with a price and a due date, and the customer approves the piece before you stitch it. The Free plan is $0 a month, there's no credit card to start, and there's no contract. If the problem is materials and cost per unit, go look at Stocksmith. That's the honest answer.