Craftybase

Affordable inventory management for makers

Kommentare: I wish I had Craftybase when I started making in 2011 because it's daunting trying to start from scratch with so many products that contain components I make as well as common materials. Adding new components with new products would be more manageable. All my items include components I manufacture myself (laser cutting. painting) so having to enter "recipes" for all components individually is tedious. For example, I can copy a recipe for an ornament (three different components, ribbon, tag) but when I create components, I can't copy the recipe from a similar component (cardboard shape, primer paint, color paint, topcoat) and this gets really slow with all the colors I have. Recently a new client ordered $800 of obsolete items I hadn't entered into Craftybase. It took 10 hours to enter component recipes for 2 products x 4 colorways, some of which had common components and many had common materials. I assumed I'd be able to generate a pick list to total the common components & materials. Nope! Back to the spreadsheet to group common components... but I didn't try to automate the paint required, so I wasted a lot of time going to the hardware store for more primer. Probably not making minimum wage on this order.

Vorteile:

Designed for solo crafters or small businesses Affordable pricing Accommodates both raw materials and components I manufacture (many small business products are for retailers who buy and resell finished goods)

Nachteile:

Does not permit copying recipes for components, just final products Does not generate pick lists to manufacture orders Must set up for either creating batches for inventory or creating products for specific orders, and I have different product lines that fit one model or the other but can't justify dual subscriptions to set them up as separate businesses Not integrated with Xero for accounting

Essential for a small product-based business

Kommentare: At this point, craftybase is essential to my business. It has its bugs and doesn't always have an easy way to get pack to my previous screen after clicking through to another element but that is minor compared to the benefit

Vorteile:

It keeps me organized without having to make a million excel documents. Product/material stock numbers are automatically adjusted when you make an order/manufacture. The recipe option is also super helpful because sometimes I can't remember exactly which size/style of hardware I used to create a product

Nachteile:

If you forget to enter a product "manufacture" and update the quantity through a "stocktake", it won't calculate cost for an order. The import function added multiple items from my different integration sites even with matching SKU's. This took a while to fix and ultimately I downgraded my subscription because I didn't find benefit from the higher tier (I also only have a few orders a month to enter so order import wasn't very high on my priority list)

Expensive buggy

Kommentare: I regret spending time on it. Don't use it as you get use to that will be harder to leave

Vorteile:

It promises a lot. Looks nice simple and clean

Nachteile:

Expensive, poor integrations, no cuctomizations at all. Simple errors not fixed tru years

So glad I went with Craftybase!

Kommentare: It has changed the way I do business and clarified things like my cost of products that I make and sell.

Vorteile:

Not having to do all the calculations in a spreadsheet anymore.

Nachteile:

I only signed up for the Pro version and I wish it had some other features that are only available in more expensive versions, such as handling consignment locations, etc.

I love Craftybase so much! My business wouldn't survive and thrive without it.

Vorteile:

I love their customer service. Whenever I have questions or wants, I just reach out and they are quick to respond and very helpful

Nachteile:

I wish the inventory synced with Shopify so that my inventory everywhere was correct.