SpoolPilot · Comparison

A Craftybase alternative built for 3D print shops

Built by an Etsy seller with 3,000+ sales

Craftybase, recently renamed Stocksmith, is respected bookkeeping software for handmade businesses. It’s also priced for businesses, and it has no idea what a filament spool is. If you sell 3D prints on Etsy, here’s how the two compare.

What happened to Craftybase?

Craftybase renamed itself Stocksmith in 2026 (“same team, same software”). As of October 2026 its published entry plan, Studio, runs $41/mo billed annually ($49 month-to-month), with higher tiers at $83–$291/mo. Hourly imports and automatic stock sync sit on the $166+/mo tiers. The old ~$20/mo plan survives only as a legacy mention.

For a shop grossing a few hundred dollars a month, $500–600 a year of bookkeeping software is a real line item. r/EtsySellers has a steady stream of threads asking for a cheaper way out.

What does Stocksmith cost over a year?

Studio, the entry plan, is $492 a year billed annually, or $588 paid month to month. Hourly sales imports and automatic stock sync start at Business: $166 a month billed annually, $1,992 a year. The Indie plan below it imports daily and syncs stock by hand. QuickBooks inventory sync is on Growth only, at $291 a month billed annually. Figures are from Stocksmith’s pricing page, checked October 2, 2026.

Does Stocksmith understand filament?

Not natively. Stocksmith models a general handmade business: components, recipes, manufactures. Workable for soap or jewelry, but a 3D print shop’s material world is filament: spools with brands, materials, colors, grams per print, and the very specific question “how many sealed spools are on the shelf, and how many weeks will they last at my sales pace?” You can fake that with generic components and manual adjustments.

What does a 3D print shop track that handmade software doesn’t?

Six things a 3D print shop tracks have no natural home in a components-and-recipes model:

• Grams per print, read off the slicer, not a component quantity you type.
• Print hours, which carry electricity and machine wear at a per-hour rate.
• Failed prints, which burn filament and printer time without producing anything to sell.
• Sealed spools, counted by scanning the barcode when a box arrives.
• Weeks of stock per material, from how fast your sales use it.
• Made-to-order products, printed after the sale, where a stock count is a chore with no meaning.

SpoolPilot is built around those six. Each product carries a cost recipe (filament grams, print hours, packaging), and every synced Etsy order is costed against it, so the profit on a sale reflects what that print cost to make. For example, a desk organizer that uses 47 g of PLA and three print hours carries $1.03 of filament at $22 a kilo, plus electricity and machine wear for those three hours, before its box is added.

How SpoolPilot compares

Competitor details as published at stocksmith.io, checked October 2026; verify current pricing before deciding. Stocksmith and Craftybase are trademarks of their owner; SpoolPilot is not affiliated with them.

Can you switch from Craftybase without losing your history?

Yes. Your sales history lives at Etsy, not in Craftybase, so there is nothing to export first. SpoolPilot imports your Etsy orders directly, with a one-tap history import (the full history is part of Pro). What does not carry over is your product setup: each product needs its cost recipe entered once. SpoolPilot keeps everything on your iPhone and exports to CSV whenever you want a copy.

When is Stocksmith still the right call?

If you need multi-user manufacturing workflows, batch traceability for regulated products, QuickBooks inventory sync, or you sell far beyond 3D printing, Stocksmith is mature software for exactly that. SpoolPilot’s job is narrower: what each sale in a 3D-print shop actually earned, from a phone next to the printer.

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