Find answers and get the most from your Stocksmith account.

Getting Started

New to Stocksmith? Start here. Covers the key concepts, initial setup, and how products, materials, and recipes fit together.

12 articles

Guides & Tutorials

Step-by-step walkthroughs for Stocksmith's core workflows — from setting up your first recipe to running a production batch.

20 articles

What's New?

Release notes and feature announcements. See what's changed, what's been added, and what's coming.

3 articles

Accounts and Users

Manage your account settings, invite team members, and control who has access to what.

15 articles

Products

Everything you need to know about the items you sell — stock levels, pricing, images, and how products connect to your recipes.

33 articles

Materials

Track the raw ingredients and supplies you use in production — costs, stock levels, reorder points, and supplier details.

34 articles

Recipes

Build the ingredient lists that power your cost calculations. Learn how to add materials, set quantities, and account for yield loss.

8 articles

Variations

Selling the same product in different sizes, scents, or colours? Variations let you manage them without duplicating your setup.

15 articles

Manufactures

Record production runs to automatically deduct materials and add finished product stock. Covers batches, bulk runs, and adjustments.

18 articles

Purchase Orders

Track what you've ordered from suppliers, what it cost, and how it flows into your material stock.

16 articles

Orders

How sales orders work in Stocksmith — syncing from connected channels, manual entry, fulfilment, and stock deduction.

28 articles

Components

Sub-assemblies that sit between raw materials and finished products. Useful when you manufacture intermediate items before final assembly.

7 articles

Reports

Inventory valuations, COGS summaries, sales performance, and more. Learn which report to run and how to read it.

33 articles

Customers & Vendors

Keep your buyer and supplier contact records in one place, linked to their orders, purchases, and history.

7 articles

Location Management

Running stock across multiple warehouses, retail locations, or storage sites? Learn how to track what's where.

8 articles

Traceability & Compliance

Lot tracking, batch records, and ingredient traceability for businesses with food safety, cosmetics, or regulatory requirements.

4 articles

Stocktakes

How to run a full or partial stocktake in Stocksmith to reconcile your on-hand counts with what's in the system.

3 articles

Listings

Listings connect your Stocksmith products to their counterparts on Shopify, Etsy, and other channels so stock stays in sync.

1 article

Pricing guidance

Set up pricing tiers, build in your target margin, and let Stocksmith calculate what you need to charge to stay profitable.

7 articles

Categories

Group your products and materials with custom categories to make reporting, filtering, and bulk management easier.

2 articles

Measurement Units

Define the units you buy in (kg, litres, grams) and manufacture in — so your recipe quantities and costs calculate correctly.

1 article

General

Account-wide settings, data imports, exports, and platform guidance that doesn't fit elsewhere.

15 articles

Integrations

Connect Stocksmith to your sales channels and tools — Shopify, Etsy, WooCommerce, QuickBooks, and more.

53 articles

Subscription

Plan details, billing questions, upgrading, and managing your Stocksmith subscription.

8 articles

Workflows

Automate repetitive tasks and set up rules to keep your inventory moving without constant manual input.

5 articles