How OrderDen compares

You already run the business on something: Stocksmith (formerly Craftybase), Katana, inFlow, QuickBooks Online, or a spreadsheet and your inbox. Here's what each one covers, taken from each vendor's own pages on September 23, 2026. Every vendor claim links to its source.

Areas covered, out of 13

OrderDen covers 13 areas of a business that makes and sells things, all on one set of records, so the order itself tells you whether it made money. You don't add up figures from several tools. A tool built for one area goes deeper in that area. OrderDen scores 13 of 13.

Module areas covered by each tool, out of 13
Tool	Areas covered	Areas partly covered	Areas not covered	Score, partial counting half
OrderDen	13	0	0	13 of 13
Stocksmith	7	2	4	8 of 13
Katana	8	4	1	10 of 13
inFlow	10	3	0	11½ of 13
QuickBooks Online	6	7	0	9½ of 13
Spreadsheets + email	0	9	4	4½ of 13

How each area was scored

An area counts as covered when every capability in it is built in, not covered when none is, and partly covered otherwise. Partly counts as half and shows as the lighter part of the bar.

Coverage of each module area, by tool
Area	OrderDen	Stocksmith	Katana	inFlow	QuickBooks Online	Spreadsheets + email
Clients	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Partly
Catalog	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Partly
Quotes	Yes	No	Partly	Yes	Yes	Partly
Orders	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Partly	Partly
Invoicing	Yes	Partly	Partly	Yes	Yes	Partly
Payments	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	No
Purchasing	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Partly	Partly
Inventory	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Partly	Partly
Production	Yes	Yes	Yes	Partly	Partly	Partly
Costing	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Partly	Partly
Shipping	Yes	No	Partly	Yes	Partly	No
Client portal	Yes	No	Partly	Partly	Partly	No
API	Yes	Partly	Yes	Partly	Yes	No

Feature by feature

15 things a maker does in a week. Each vendor's mark links to the page it came from. Hover over a partial mark to see why it's partial.

Capabilities by tool: yes, partly, or no, each linked to the page it was read from
Capability	OrderDen	Stocksmith	Katana	inFlow	QuickBooks Online	Spreadsheets + email
Client records: contacts, addresses and history in one placeClients	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Partly
An item catalog with prices and costsCatalog	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Partly
Quotes sent to a client to acceptQuotes	Yes	No	Partly	Yes	Yes	Partly
Orders tracked from confirmed to fulfilledOrders	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Partly	Partly
Invoices raised and emailed from the productInvoicing	Yes	Partly	Partly	Yes	Yes	Partly
Deposits and part-payments against one documentInvoicing	Yes	No	Partly	Yes	Yes	Partly
Card payment online, on the invoice itselfPayments	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	No
Purchase orders to suppliers, received into stockPurchasing	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Partly	Partly
Stock on hand with a low-stock point per itemInventory	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Partly	Partly
A recipe or bill of materials per productProduction	Yes	Yes	Yes	Partly	Partly	Partly
Production runs that take materials off the shelfProduction	Yes	Yes	Yes	Partly	No	Partly
Cost of goods and margin per item and orderCosting	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Partly	Partly
Shipping labels bought in the productShipping	Yes	No	Partly	Yes	Partly	No
A client portal to read and pay documentsClient portal	Yes	No	Partly	Partly	Partly	No
A public REST APIAPI	Yes	Partly	Yes	Partly	Yes	No

built in partly (hover over a mark to see why) not offered, or not documented

Stocksmith (formerly Craftybase): Inventory, recipes, manufactures and cost of goods for makers, with orders arriving from Etsy, Shopify and the like. The same product under a new name: craftybase.com now redirects to stocksmith.io.

Katana: Cloud inventory and manufacturing for small manufacturers: sales and purchase orders, stock, bills of materials and production, with accounting handed to QuickBooks or Xero.

inFlow: Inventory management for small businesses: products, sales and purchase orders, stock across locations, and light manufacturing.

QuickBooks Online: Small-business accounting: invoices, estimates, expenses, payroll and the books, with inventory and purchase orders on its higher plans.

Spreadsheets + email: What most makers run on today: a workbook or two, a document template, and the inbox as the system of record. It is not a vendor and cites nothing; a mark says only whether a sheet can hold the record by hand.

Features checked September 23, 2026. Vendor names are their owners' trademarks (Stocksmith, Craftybase, Katana, inFlow, QuickBooks Online). Nothing here is about price, which changes between checks. OrderDen's is on the pricing page. Where a vendor's own pages don't document a feature, it's marked no.

Sources

Every page the marks above came from, checked on September 23, 2026. OrderDen's marks point at its user guide. If a page has changed since, the mark may be out of date: tell us and we'll check it again.

How OrderDen compares

Areas covered, out of 13

Feature by feature

Sources

OrderDen

Stocksmith

Katana

inFlow

QuickBooks Online

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