vsTrackFinch vs Craftybase.
Craftybase is inventory and COGS bookkeeping for handmade sellers. Here's where each one actually wins — honestly, because a comparison page that lies converts nobody twice.
Craftybase is beloved by handmade sellers for a specific job: COGS and inventory bookkeeping — pulling in marketplace orders and producing the numbers tax season wants. It's accounting-shaped, and good at it.
TrackFinch is studio-shaped: live material counts, batch runs as work orders, product BOMs with cost roll-ups, equipment maintenance, and booth-kit checkouts. It answers "can I make 50 by Saturday?" — the operational question — rather than optimizing the bookkeeping one.
Choose Craftybase if…
- Marketplace-integrated COGS reporting is the main event
- Tax-ready numbers matter more than live floor counts
- You sell mostly through Etsy/Shopify and want order pull-ins
Choose TrackFinch if…
- You want to RUN production — batches, materials, capacity
- Equipment (lasers, kilns, printers) needs maintenance tracking
- Market gear and shared tools need checkouts
Craftybase and TrackFinch, feature by feature.
Summarized at a category level as of mid-2026 — verify current details on their site.
| Capability | Craftybase | TrackFinch |
|---|---|---|
| Marketplace order sync | ||
| COGS/tax reporting focus | Cost roll-ups, CSV export | |
| Live multi-location stock | Basic | |
| Batch runs as work orders | Manufacture logging | |
| Equipment & maintenance | ||
| Checkouts (booth kits, tools) | ||
| Grows into a real shop | Maker-sized |
Frequently asked questions
Can TrackFinch produce COGS numbers for taxes?
It knows per-unit material costs and every batch's consumption, exportable to CSV for your accountant. If you want marketplace-synced, tax-shaped reports out of the box, that's Craftybase's specialty.
I'm scaling from kitchen table to real studio — which grows better?
That's TrackFinch's lane: the same ledger runs a one-person studio and a ten-person shop, because BOMs, work orders, and equipment don't change shape — just size. See TrackFinch for makers.
Can I run both?
Some makers do — Craftybase for marketplace bookkeeping, TrackFinch for the physical studio. The overlap is material counts; pick one source of truth for those.
Runs on the same ledger.
Everything in TrackFinch shares one source of truth — start anywhere, the rest is already connected.
Decide with your own shop's data.
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