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Who Uses Craftybase?
Sellers of handmade products who wish to track their product and material inventory, COGS and bookkeeping.
What Is Craftybase?
Cloud based solution for the management of raw materials and product inventory. Features include revenue tracking, invoicing, order management, COGS and inventory valuation and pricing suggestions.
Craftybase Details
Craftybase
http://craftybase.com
Founded 2010
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Starting price
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Craftybase deployment and support
Support
- Email/Help Desk
- FAQs/Forum
- Knowledge Base Software
- Chat
Deployment
- Cloud, SaaS, Web-based
Training Software
- Documentation
- Videos
Craftybase Features
Inventory Management Software
- API
- Accounting Integration
- Activity Dashboard
- Alerts/Notifications
- Barcode / Ticket Scanning
- Barcode Recognition
- Billing & Invoicing
- Cost Tracking
- Customer Database
- Customizable Reports
- Data Synchronization
- Forecasting
- Inventory Auditing
- Inventory Control Software
- Inventory Management Software
- Inventory Optimization Software
- Inventory Replenishment
- Inventory Tracking
- Invoice Management
- Kitting
- Manufacturing Inventory Management Software
- Mobile Access
- Multi-Channel Management
- Multi-Currency
- Multi-Location
- Order Management Software
- Order Tracking
- Point of Sale (POS)
- Product Identification
- Purchase Order Management
- Purchasing & Receiving
- Real Time Data
- Real Time Reporting
- Real-time Updates
- Reorder Management
- Reporting & Statistics
- Reporting/Analytics
- Retail Inventory Management Software
- Returns Management
- Sales Orders
- Sales Reports
- Search/Filter
- Shipping Management
- Status Tracking
- Stock Management
- Supplier Management
- Third Party Integrations
- Vendor Managed Inventory
- Warehouse Management Software
- eCommerce Management
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Craftybase Reviews
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Kathryn H.
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Overall Rating5 /5
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Ease of Use4 /5
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Features & Functionality4 /5
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Customer Support Software4 /5
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Value for Money5 /5
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Likelihood to Recommend
- Reviewer Source
- Reviewed on 26/08/2019
"Affordable inventory management for makers"
Comments: 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.
Pros:
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)
Cons:
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
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- Reviewed on 26/08/2019
Shelly H.
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Overall Rating5 /5
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Ease of Use5 /5
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Features & Functionality5 /5
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Customer Support Software5 /5
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Value for Money5 /5
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Likelihood to Recommend
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- Reviewed on 26/08/2019
"Lifesaving (and marriage saving)!"
Comments: They are responsive, fix problems when they arise, they are excellent at walking you through what it is you need to do to achieve your task. It's been a life saver for me since I still have a day job and takes some of the nitty gritty record keeping off my hands through automations.
Pros: It's online and supports multiple sales channels. It pulls items out of my inventory and has been a life/marriage saver at tax time (I'm a sole proprietorship) and it's ease of use for tallying annual reports is fabulous. I do handcrafts so QuickBooks really is not designed for this industry.
Cons: The tech support is great and they work really quickly to get back to you in short time. In an ideal world, it would be 24/7, but their response time is great.
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- Reviewed on 26/08/2019
Navine A.
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Overall Rating4 /5
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Ease of Use3 /5
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Features & Functionality4 /5
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Customer Support Software3 /5
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Value for Money4 /5
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Likelihood to Recommend
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- Reviewed on 22/07/2021
"Craftybase affordable option"
Comments: Craftybase is not bad apart from the sales channel issue for me and it’s functionality maybe limiting as you begin to grow or you need more efficiency keeping inventory across several platforms. It is great for start up.
Pros: It is affordable for start ups compare to the bigger systems like trunk and gets the job done.
Cons: I hate the integration with the sales channels as it is very limited. I have been waiting for them to integrate with bigcommerce for 2 years now and their integration with square is horrible because it doesn’t bring in the items purchased and customer details. Instead it comes as a custom order and so it does pull from the inventory which means I have to delete the imported sales and re - enter it so it reduces the inventory. Time consuming.
Vendor Response
by Craftybase on 28/07/2021
Hi Navine - sorry to hear you have had some issues with our Square integration. To confirm, Craftybase does fully import line item product details and customer data from Square so it does sound like something is going wrong here - please do get in touch with us via support and we'll be happy to take a look into this for you.
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- Reviewed on 22/07/2021
Tammie B.
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Overall Rating3 /5
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Ease of Use4 /5
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Features & Functionality3 /5
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Customer Support Software3 /5
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Value for Money4 /5
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Likelihood to Recommend
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- Reviewed on 26/08/2019
"mostly good, but needs features."
Comments: i am sort of solving inventory issues, but there could certainly be a lot more automated features to take a lot of time off the process. if it could automatically update inventory in e-commerce systems and if it could send automatic emails to me when a product gets low, that would be hugely beneficial.
Pros: I like that it helps you price your goods including labor costs. it is pretty easy to use if you know the terminology of inventory. i also really like that it allows for consignment which a lot of other software does not. it allows for manual entry of orders which many other software programs do not.
Cons: i don't like that it doesn't update shopify or other ecommerce sites. so i have to update inventory in craftybase and then also go into shopify and update inventory there as well. you can set low inventory alerts, but it doesn't notify you, so you have to manually go in and check periodically to see which products are running low. seems to defeat the purpose of an alert. it also doesn't sync with bookkeeping systems or shipping systems.
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- Reviewed on 26/08/2019
Lisa E.
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Overall Rating5 /5
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Ease of Use5 /5
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Features & Functionality5 /5
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Customer Support Software5 /5
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Value for Money5 /5
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Likelihood to Recommend
- Reviewer Source
- Reviewed on 26/08/2019
"A must for made-to-order businesses"
Comments: I couldn't run my business without craftybase. I run a jewelry shop with thousands of orders per year. I've got over 200 skus with 70 variations each and CB makes it simple to create product recipes, manufactures, and adjust inventory. There is some initial setup for variations but after that it's all automated.v taxes are a breeze with this software
Pros:
-automatically imports orders from multiple channels
-automatically creates manufactures for products and decreases material stock levels
-keeps track of all my expenses
-provides tons of various reports to help during tax time
-customer service is easy to reach and always helpful
Cons: There's nothing I don't like about craftybase!
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- Reviewed on 26/08/2019
