The best embroidery business software, sorted by who each one is actually for

We make one of the products on this page. Broidry is ours, it is order management software for machine embroidery shops, and we have an obvious reason to want you to pick it. So here is the deal up front: Broidry is built for one or two people, it needs an internet connection, it has no supplier catalog integration, no multi-store e-commerce, and no raw-material inventory or bills of materials. If any of those things is what you came looking for, one of the other products below is the right answer and this article says which.

Everything else here is pricing read from each vendor's own site, plus a plain description of the shop each product was designed around. Judge the whole page on whether those descriptions match what you find when you go look.

Competitor pricing was checked in July 2026 from each vendor's own pricing page. Software pricing moves, and several third-party roundups are already quoting numbers these companies no longer charge, so check the current page before you sign up for anything.

Why this is not a ranked list

There is no honest way to number these one through six. They are not competing for the same shop. Printavo and ShopWorks are built for businesses with staff and a production floor. DecoNetwork is a storefront platform with decoration attached. Stocksmith is a cost accounting tool. Teesom is a screen printing product with a free tier. Broidry is for a person running a machine at home or in a small studio.

A ranking would mostly tell you which one we like, which is not useful. So the sections below are organized by the situation you are in.

If you have employees, or you are heading that way

Printavo. Lite is $109 a month and includes two user seats as its minimum, so you pay for a second person whether you have one or not. Lite also caps you at 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 and the price is not published. Additional users are $19 a month each, and the Merch add-on that gives you an online store is another $109 a month. There is a 7-day trial with no card, and no free plan.

Printavo is built for print shops, and it is well regarded in that world. If your week involves screens and a press as much as it involves a hoop, or if several people need to work in the same system, the seat structure and the quoting are worth what they cost. More detail on that comparison is on the Printavo alternative page.

ShopWorks OnSite. ShopWorks publishes no pricing, no seat counts, and no trial terms anywhere on their site, so there is nothing we can state about what it costs. They describe OnSite as fitting shops doing $100,000 to $50 million a year, which is the clearest statement of scale anyone in this category makes. If your business is inside that range and you want a system with a long history behind it, it is worth a sales call. If you are nowhere near it, the absence of a published price is itself an answer.

If you want real web stores, and you print as well as embroider

DecoNetwork. Standard is $239 a month, Premium is $339, and Enterprise is $439. Those include 3, 5, and 25 staff accounts, with extra staff at $10 a month each. Every plan also carries a one-time license fee on top of the monthly price, and the amount is not published on their pricing page. Third-party sites do quote license figures, but those same sites are also quoting stale monthly prices, so we are not going to repeat numbers we cannot verify. Ask DecoNetwork directly before you budget. There is no trial. They publish a 14-day grace period and no refunds.

What you get for that is the widest scope in this set: customer-facing web stores, online design tools, and supplier catalog integration, so blanks can be priced and ordered inside the same system. Broidry does none of that. If you are running fundraiser stores, team stores, and a print operation alongside the embroidery, DecoNetwork is doing a job nothing else on this page attempts. More on the comparison at DecoNetwork alternative.

If your real problem is material costs and cost of goods

Stocksmith, formerly Craftybase. Start with the rename, because search results and reviews still say Craftybase and it causes confusion. Craftybase renamed itself Stocksmith. Same team, same software, new name. Pricing also changed: the "$20 a month Craftybase" figure still circulating is dead. Plans are Studio $49, Indie $99, Business $199, and Growth $349 a month, with unlimited users on the paid tiers and a 14-day trial that does not ask for a card.

It solves a different problem than the rest of this page. Stocksmith tracks raw materials, landed costs, and cost of goods sold for makers building products from components. It is not order management, and it does not pretend to be. It is also the only product in this set that says plainly it is for a solo maker or a small team, and that deserves credit in a category where almost everything assumes payroll.

If you buy thread, blanks, stabilizer, and interfacing in bulk and genuinely do not know your per-piece material cost, that is the problem Stocksmith was built for and Broidry does not solve it. Shops run one of each. There is more at Craftybase alternative.

If you need free, right now

Teesom. The free plan is the only genuinely free plan in the category from an established vendor: 20 orders a month, single user. Paid plans are sold by seat, from $77 a month for one user up to $718 a month for thirty. Their own pages disagree on the entry price, so use the pricing page figure of $77.

Teesom is built for screen printing shops, so the vocabulary and the workflow are print shop vocabulary and print shop workflow. If free is the requirement and 20 orders a month covers your volume, it belongs on your list regardless.

Spreadsheets. They are free, they are flexible, they are already on your computer, and at low volume they work fine. Plenty of profitable shops run on one sheet. Where they stop holding up is when the same information has to exist in several places at once: what the customer approved, what thread went on it, what is due Friday, and what you charged last time. That is a specific breaking point rather than a general failing, and we wrote out where it happens in Broidry versus spreadsheets.

If you are one or two people running machine embroidery

Broidry. Free is $0 a month with the core features included, a 2 percent fee on payments taken through Broidry, and 15 orders a month that were paid outside it, such as Venmo, cash, or a check. Maker is $19 a month, Shop is $39, and Atelier is $79.

What it is built around is the embroidery-specific part: your stitch files, your thread colors by number, and your fonts in one searchable library, with a record of which of them went onto each finished order. Orders from Etsy, Facebook, text, email, and your own shop page land on one list with a price, a status, and a due date. The customer approves the wording and the placement before anything is stitched.

The limits again, stated as plainly as the price. It is built for one person, or two on the Shop plan. It runs in a browser, so it needs an internet connection. There is no supplier catalog, so blanks are not priced or ordered from inside it. There is no multi-store e-commerce. There is no raw-material inventory and no bill of materials, which is the Stocksmith job described above.

If you sell mostly on Etsy and are weighing whether you need anything beyond it, that comparison is at Broidry versus Etsy.

What this category is missing

Line the prices up and one thing is visible from the pricing alone. The entry points are $0 for Teesom's free tier, $49 for Stocksmith, $109 for Printavo, $239 plus an unpublished license fee for DecoNetwork, and an unpublished number for ShopWorks. Seats are bundled in twos, threes, and fives. ShopWorks names a floor of $100,000 a year.

Those are the pricing decisions of products designed for a business with payroll, and there is nothing wrong with that. It does mean a person running one machine has almost nothing built for her at a price that matches what the work brings in. Teesom's free tier and Broidry are the two exceptions, and Teesom's is a screen printing product. That is a reading of published pricing, not a claim about product quality.

How to compare them for your own shop

Rather than a checklist of features, the four questions that actually decide it:

1. 1How many people will be in the software? If the answer is more than two, the seat-based products are built for you and Broidry is not.
2. 2What do you sell besides embroidery? Printing, in volume, points at Printavo, DecoNetwork, or ShopWorks.
3. 3Do you need customers buying from web stores you configure, or do orders come to you through channels you already have? Web stores are DecoNetwork's territory.
4. 4Is the thing you cannot answer today "what did I charge and stitch for her last time," or is it "what did the materials cost me"? Those are two different products.

If the pricing question is the live one, the embroidery pricing calculator works out the per-piece math with stitch count, blank cost, and hooping, and it is free to use without an account.

Broidry is order management software for machine embroidery shops. Your designs, thread colors by number, and fonts live in one searchable library, and orders from Etsy, Facebook, text, and email land on one list. There is a free plan: broidry.com.