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Craftybase is now Stocksmith. A good moment to re-read the fine print.
On July 1, 2026, the tool a generation of makers knew as Craftybase became Stocksmith. A rebrand is a natural moment to ask what you’re actually signed up for. Here is the honest version — the facts, and the promises we make that a rebrand can’t.
The moment
Fifteen years as Craftybase, then Stocksmith
Craftybase became Stocksmith on July 1, 2026, after fifteen years under the Craftybase name. If you’re reading pricing pages again because the brand you signed up with changed, you’re not alone — that’s exactly the moment makers re-evaluate.
Our answer to that moment isn’t a cheaper sticker price. It’s promises written into the product rather than the marketing: published prices with 30 days’ notice before any change, no meter on your orders or your sales volume, and an export of everything (JSON/CSV) on every tier. A rename can change a logo; it can’t revise a constraint the product enforces.
Source: Craftybase → Stocksmith rebrand, effective July 1, 2026.
What a rebrand is a good moment to check
- Whether the plan you’re on can be repriced out from under you overnight. Our promise: published prices, and 30 days’ notice before any change touches you.
- Whether your plan caps orders, transactions, or sales volume. We never meter your sales — only receipt scans, which are our real cost.
- Whether you can walk with everything if you leave. Export it all — materials, products, batches, orders, cost history — as JSON or CSV, free, forever.
How your Stocksmith / Craftybase export lands
- We ship a migration importer built for exactly this: export from Stocksmith, upload the CSV (or paste it in), map the columns, and preview exactly what will land — how many materials and products, and any conflicts — before anything is written.
- Your materials arrive with opening balances and costs; from there every purchase re-averages each material’s cost — the disclosed average-cost method, on every report.
- Recipes are the one honest catch: Stocksmith’s export withholds its bill-of-materials, so from Stocksmith your materials, products, and costs come across and you rebuild recipes in-app. (Coming from Ardent Seller instead? Those exports do carry recipes, and we import them straight in.)
- And the door swings both ways: whatever you import, you can export again, any time, on any tier. No lock-in in either direction.
The move itself, written out
However this comparison lands for you, carrying a year of cost history across is its own job, and it has the same five stages whoever you are leaving: freeze, export, copy out what will not export, rebuild, reconcile. Switching costing tools without losing your numbers is that running order in full. How to export your data from any inventory tool covers getting the files out, telling a real export from an empty one, and the records that never export at all. What to look for in a maker costing tool is the nine questions worth asking before you commit to anywhere, including who should skip this whole category.
Side by side
| What matters | Craftybase | Batchnook |
|---|---|---|
| The brand you signed up with | Rebranded from Craftybase to Stocksmith, effective July 1, 2026 (after fifteen years) | Flat, published pricing with 30 days’ notice before any change — no surprises, whatever the logo says |
| Repricing | Check stocksmith.io for current plans | Flat, published pricing — any change comes with 30 days’ notice, never a surprise. |
| Order / sales metering | Check their current plan limits | Batches and orders are never metered, on any tier — we meter receipt scans (our real cost), never your sales. The only per-sale price is the Batchnook platform fee on orders your own Batchnook storefront processes — never on a sale you make anywhere else. |
| Receipt capture | Web-based data entry — check their current mobile support | Snap a supplier receipt; the scan reads the lines and you approve them before anything counts. |
| Costing method | Real-time inventory and COGS for small-batch manufacturing | Moving-average cost per material, recomputed on every purchase — disclosed average-cost method on every report. |
| Data export | Check their current export terms | Export everything (JSON/CSV), free, on every tier, forever — in and out, no lock-in. |
| Migration in | — | Upload a Stocksmith / Craftybase CSV export (or paste it) into the column mapper — dry-run preview + 24-hour undo |
| Price | Check stocksmith.io/pricing for current plans | Free to start · Bench $19/mo · Studio $29/mo |
Rebrand date verified July 2026 (Craftybase → Stocksmith, effective 2026-07-01). Stocksmith plan details change; we omit their prices rather than risk a stale number — check stocksmith.io. Their current numbers may differ — always check their own site. We never invent a competitor claim: rows we can’t verify say “check their current…”, not a made-up figure.
Our promises to makers
Batchnook runs on a set of promises — marketing claims that are also product constraints, so a rebrand or a price change can’t quietly revise them:
- One published price per tier, and 30 days’ notice before it changes.
- No order-line meters, ever.
- Your data walks free — export everything, always.
- Tax-ready numbers, never tax advice.
Try the maker-first way, free
No card, no countdown — the Free plan covers 3 products and 3 receipt scans a month, and any change to it reaches you at least 30 days ahead. Snap a receipt and watch every product’s margin update.
Or look at the full pricing page — the entitlement table is exact, on purpose — or read the other comparisons.