Odds are you're running one of four things: spreadsheets, a retail POS that was never built to manufacture, a general-purpose ERP with a jewelry layer on top, or a system that predates the browser you're reading this in. We can't tell you what yours does — but we can tell you exactly what Karatry costs, exactly what it does, and let you check both against your own catalog for 30 days before you pay anything.
How to read this page. You won't find a competitor's name here, and you won't find a grid of red crosses against someone else's product. We can't audit software we don't run, and a comparison that guesses is worth nothing to you. So every statement below is about Karatry — what it costs, what it does, and what it doesn't — set next to a question you can go and ask of whatever you're using today. If any of it turns out not to be true of the product, tell us and we'll fix the page.
Including us. Our answers are below — the other column is one you can fill in from your renewal quote, your last invoice, or the page you'd have to book a call to see.
| Ask it of whatever you're running now | Karatry's answer |
|---|---|
| Can you see the price without talking to anyone? | $30 per seat / month, or $300 per seat / year Two months free on annual. It's on the pricing page, not behind a form. |
| Is there a second licence underneath the jewelry part? | No — that's the whole bill One plan, one line, every module included. |
| What does it cost to add one more person? | $30 — every seat is the same seat No limited-user tier, no per-module upgrade, no negotiation. |
| Can you start today, by yourself, without a call? | Yes — 30 days of the full product No credit card, no demo to book, no forms to get through first. |
| How long before you can cost a real style? | The same afternoon Self-serve CSV import brings your customers, inventory and styles in yourself — inside the trial. |
| What's the implementation fee? | There isn't one Nothing to configure before you start, and email support from a real human is included. |
| If you stop paying, what happens to your data? | Your workspace goes read-only Everything stays viewable and exportable; business writes pause. Nothing is deleted. |
| Can you get your data back out yourself? | Yes, to plain CSV, any time Customers, styles, inventory, sales orders and invoices — exported by you, no ticket, no exit fee. |
Spreadsheets are honest software. They just don't know that the metal in row 40 got more expensive this morning, and they never tell you which of your styles quietly stopped covering their cost because of it.
In Karatry a style's cost isn't typed in — it's computed from the bill of materials, the metal weight, the karat, and the day's spot. Spot refreshes on its own. When it moves far enough that your catalog is out of date, Karatry flags exactly which styles have drifted and asks you to review them, rather than silently repricing your catalog behind your back or leaving you to notice at year end.
A general-purpose ERP with a jewelry layer on top can absolutely work. It's also three moving parts — the platform, the layer, and the person who fits them together — and the fit tends to live in configuration that somebody was paid to do. If that describes what you're on, this is the honest difference.
There is no configuration phase in Karatry, because there's nothing generic underneath to teach about jewelry. Styles and bills of material, memo and consignment aging, metal loss reconciled by the gram at each stage, work orders on a manufacturing floor, serialized pieces whose lot number is the barcode — those aren't modules you switch on or a consultant fits. They're the shape of the thing.
If your current system needs a server in the back office, a client installed on every desk, and a phone call to whoever set it up before anything changes, you already know the real cost isn't the licence. It's that nothing can change quickly.
Karatry runs in a browser. Adding a teammate is an emailed invitation with a role attached, and you send it yourself. Your workspace is isolated from every other workspace at the data layer, with MFA, role-based permissions and a full audit trail — and the security page says exactly how, without adjectives.
Because we'd be stating facts about products we can't audit, on a page designed to persuade you. Vendor pricing and features change without notice, and a comparison grid built from the outside is stale the week it ships. We'd rather be exactly right about our own product and give you the questions to ask everyone else — including us.
No, and we won't pretend otherwise. Mature systems have years of scope behind them and there will be things they do that we don't. What we can tell you precisely is what Karatry does today — and the fastest way to find out whether that covers your shop is 30 days on your own data, free, with no card and no call.
Sometimes it is. Here it's mostly a different cost structure: we sell it ourselves, there's no implementation practice to fund, and you bring your own AI key so we're not marking up tokens you could buy at cost. That's why one plan at $30 a seat works — and why every module is on every seat instead of tiered.
Then don't rip anything out to find out. Run Karatry alongside what you have through the trial, pilot one product line or one bench, and compare the costing on styles you already know the answer to. If it doesn't hold up, you've lost nothing but a CSV export.
Subscribe at $30 per seat per month (or $300 per seat per year) to keep working. If you don't, your workspace becomes read-only — everything stays viewable and exportable, and new business writes pause until you subscribe. Nothing is deleted. Full pricing terms →
Start the trial and try it on your own catalog — that's the whole reason it's 30 days, free, and doesn't ask for a card. The features page lists what's in the product, pricing lists what it costs, and security explains how your data is handled. If anything on this page doesn't match what you find, tell us and we'll correct it.
30 days of the full product, on your own catalog, with no credit card and nobody to call first.
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