About Cajella
Cajella is business management software for makers and small product businesses that need more organization than a spreadsheet gives them, without the weight of software built for large companies.
Why Cajella exists
A spreadsheet works. Until there are five of them. A notebook works. Until the number you need isn't in it. A simple cost calculator works. Until material prices change, products get more complicated, and you're selling in more than one place.
Materials live in one place. Product costs live somewhere else. Orders have their own system. Production might be tracked somewhere else again, or not at all.
Eventually, running the business starts to mean keeping all of those systems in sync.
How much does this product really cost? Do I have enough material to make it? How many finished products are available? What did I actually earn on those sales?
Those questions shouldn't require opening several files and rebuilding the answer every time.
Software built for large manufacturers can do a lot, but it comes with its own vocabulary, a long setup and processes a small team doesn't need.
Most small product businesses don't need all of that. They need the right tools connected in the right way.
Our approach
Buying, making and selling are one business, so Cajella keeps them in one place.
Track the things you buy, what you have on hand, what they cost, and what your products require.
Say what goes into each product, see what it costs to make, and record what you make.
Match each sale to what it cost to make, and see the profit as well as the revenue.
What we believe
Cajella should make sense for the solo maker who needs to get organized today while still having room for the business they may become tomorrow.
You shouldn't have to learn a new vocabulary to understand your own business.
When you record a sale or a production run, your stock and your numbers update with it.
You can see how each cost is worked out. Stock follows what you made, sold and used. Reports come from your real orders.
The idea
Spend less time keeping records in step and more time making and selling.
Create a free account, add what goes into one product, and see what it costs to make.
