Guides for makers
Costing-first, plain-English guides: the same maker economics Batchnook is built on. No sign-in needed to read them.
Switching tools without losing your numbers
The vendor-neutral versions: get your data out of any tool, move the cost history without breaking it, and know what to ask before you commit to the next one.
Switching costing tools without losing your numbers
A vendor-neutral plan for moving to a new inventory or costing tool: what to freeze, what to export, what never transfers, what to rebuild by hand, and the checks that prove the move landed.
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How to export your data from any inventory tool
Four data shapes worth saving from any inventory or costing tool, how to tell a real export from an empty one, and the records that never export at all and have to be copied by hand.
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How to import your cost and pricing history into a new tool
The file shapes an importer expects, the columns that matter, the five things that quietly break a cost import, and the checks that prove the result is right.
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What to look for in a maker costing tool
Nine questions to ask any costing tool before you trust it with a year of data: units, recipes, cost method, export terms, how it bills, and the makers who should not buy one at all.
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Costing and pricing, from the ground up
The durable maker-economics base: know your true cost, choose a margin, and keep tax-ready numbers.
How to price handmade products without underpricing yourself
A costing-first method for pricing handmade products: find your true unit cost, choose a margin, and keep prices honest as your costs move.
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COGS for makers: a plain-English guide to cost of goods sold
Cost of goods sold for a maker is the materials in the piece and the packaging it ships in, not the jar on the shelf. Worked through for a candle, a ring and a soap.
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Should you reprice when silver jumps?
Metal is the one craft material with a public price. When it moves, should you reprice? How replacement cost works, a worked sterling example, and when it's not worth the bother.
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Moving off Stocky, after the shutdown
Shopify retired Stocky on August 31, 2026, and read-only export stays open for at least 90 days. Get your cost history out, then choose where it lands — honestly.
Kept for the record, and still the right pages if you are working inside the read-only export window.
Stocky has shut down: what makers still need to do
Shopify retired Stocky on Aug 31, 2026. Here's what closed, what you lose for good, and the steps to save your cost history while read-only export is still open.
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How to export your data from Stocky while you still can
A step-by-step guide to exporting your cost history, purchase orders, and stocktakes from Stocky as CSV in the read-only window that followed the Aug 31, 2026 shutdown.
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The best Stocky alternatives for makers, honestly compared
Stocky retired Aug 31, 2026. An honest look at where makers should move their cost history — Shopify's tools, spreadsheets, and maker costing apps.
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The Stocky migration checklist: every step, in order, after the shutdown
An ordered checklist for leaving Stocky after the Aug 31, 2026 shutdown: what to export from the read-only window first, what can't be recovered, and how to check the move landed.
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Know the real margin on everything you make
Snap the receipt. Watch every product’s real margin update.