A quick honest note: I built Findig, so I'm not a neutral reviewer — no comparison from a product's own maker ever is. But I've used real, current prices and real features here, and I'll tell you plainly where Craftybase is the better choice. If you spot anything out of date, email me and I'll fix it. Facts checked June 2026.
Findig vs Craftybase
An honest comparison for Etsy sellers — written by the founder of Findig.
Craftybase is the polished, established choice — around since 2011, thousands of users, and genuinely good if you sell across several platforms or need serious material and tax accounting. Findig is the new, focused, Etsy-first choice, built by an active Etsy seller who got tired of spreadsheets. Here's a fair look at both — plus the third option nobody mentions: just using a spreadsheet.
The 10-second verdict
A spreadsheet
Tiny, quiet shop and you don't mind the typing? A free Google Sheet is genuinely fine. Come back when it starts to hurt.
Craftybase
Selling on several platforms, or need deep raw-material / lot tracking or US (Schedule C) tax reports? Craftybase, every time.
Findig
On Etsy, allergic to spreadsheets, and you want real profit + variation stock that never drifts — without a monthly bill? That's what I built this for.
At a glance
Findig
Craftybase
Built for
Etsy sellers, specifically
Makers across many channels
Sales channels
Etsy today (more on the roadmap)
✓Etsy, Shopify, Amazon, Faire & more
Price
Free while in early access
$24–$349/mo by order volume (14-day trial)
Real profit after every Etsy fee
✓Yes — incl. the regulatory ones
✓Yes (COGS-focused)
Per-variation stock, auto-deducted
✓Down to colour & size, in real time
✓Yes
Stock that never "drifts"
✓Real-time + a built-in miss monitor
~Good, depends on sync setup
Tracking pushed back to Etsy
✓Mark shipped → tracking to Etsy
✗No shipping features
Deep raw-material / lot / batch tracking
~Cost tracking yes; deep lot/batch no
✓Their specialty
Production planner
✓What to make next, by demand
~Low-stock alerts
US tax (Schedule C) exports
✗Not for the US
✓A core strength
Data hosted in the EU (Germany)
✓GDPR-clean, encrypted
✗US-based
Maturity
New — early access (2026)
✓Established since 2011
Support
The founder, personally
Established support team
Where Craftybase is the better choice
I'm not going to pretend Findig wins everything — Craftybase is the more complete product today. Choose it if:
You sell on more than one platform. Etsy and Shopify and a craft-fair POS? Craftybase pulls them into one inventory. Findig is Etsy-only for now — no contest here.
You need deep material accounting. Lot numbers, batch tracking, bills of materials, manufacturing runs — a decade of depth.
You file US taxes. Their whole origin is painless Schedule C / COGS for American makers. Findig has nothing equivalent.
You want proven and polished. Thousands of shops, years of refinement, a real support team. Findig is one person and an early-access beta.
If any of those is you, go start a Craftybase trial — I mean that.
Where Findig fits better
Still here? Then you're probably an Etsy seller who doesn't want a second job doing admin. This is exactly who I built it for.
Real profit, not just revenue — without the homework. Every Etsy fee, your real shipping cost and material cost, subtracted automatically. You set costs once; the math runs itself.
Variation stock that can't oversell — and never drifts. It deducts the exact colour and size the moment a sale lands, warns you before zero, and a built-in monitor flags any write that didn't stick. The #1 complaint about cheaper tools is silent inventory drift; Findig is built against it.
Tracking goes back to Etsy. Mark an order shipped, paste the number, done — Craftybase simply doesn't do this.
Built for Etsy, not adapted to it. No "map your channels" setup, no Shopify concepts. Connect your shop and it imports everything in about a minute.
Free right now, and dead simple. No CSV files, no "what's a SKU?". Free during early access, and I set up every new shop personally.
Your data stays in Germany. GDPR-clean, encrypted at rest and in every backup.
The honest third option: a spreadsheet
For a lot of small shops the real alternative isn't Craftybase or Findig — it's a Google Sheet, increasingly one ChatGPT generated for free. That's a fine place to start. Here's where it stops being enough:
A sheet can't sync your orders — every sale is a row you type by hand.
It doesn't know the buyer picked "forest green, large" and deduct the right stock.
It can't push tracking to Etsy, warn you before you run out, or plan production.
It's manual data entry forever — ChatGPT can write the formulas, not do the daily typing.
A spreadsheet is free but it's a job you do. Findig is the job done for you. The day order-entry starts feeling like a chore is the day to switch.
A fair word on price
Craftybase is tiered by order volume: Pro $24/mo (just 25 order lines), Studio $49/mo (250 lines, where most active shops land), up to Growth $349/mo. There's a 14-day free trial, no card. Findig is free during early access — that won't last forever, but early sellers keep access at preferred pricing when paid plans arrive. If budget is the thing stopping you from getting your inventory under control, that gap matters.
Want to try Findig?
It's free while it's in early access, and I onboard every new shop personally. There are a limited number of beta spots — I read every application and reply within 48 hours.