Cashowa
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Craft and hobby supplies
Cashowa turns your bank statements into a clear picture of the business. Made for home and hobby craft supplies sellers, and for the specific way money moves in this trade.
Free plan, 10 credits a month, no card required.
Alex M.
hello@northgatehomeandgo.co
Your business at a glance.
Revenue (90d)
$16,278.00
Operating costs (90d)
$10,113.00
Net profit (90d)
$6,165.00
Monthly net
$1,958.00
Average of closed months
Cash flow
Money in and out, last 12 months
Top costs
Biggest expense categories, last 90 days
Top suppliers
Where the money went, last 90 days
The money side of home and hobby craft supplies sellers is rarely as tidy as the accounting software assumes. Craft supplies mean enormous ranges of small, cheap items. Hundreds of colours, sizes and variants, each selling a few units a month. That is a lot of individual lines to manage and a lot of cash spread very thin across stock that individually turns slowly.
Basket size is the central problem. Someone buying three reels of thread has a very small order, and postage on that order is a large share of it. Getting the average order value up through bundles or minimum spends is usually worth more than any amount of extra traffic.
Customers are loyal and knowledgeable. They come back regularly for consumables, which makes repeat rate strong if you keep the range they need in stock. Running out of a specific colour is a genuine reason to lose someone.
Money in
$3,450.00
Money out
$1,443.00
Left over
$2,007.00
Where the money went
Upload a statement and Cashowa does the sorting. Free to start, no card needed.
Three situations that come up constantly in home and hobby craft supplies.
With hundreds of variants, the slow mover list is the only practical way. Some shades genuinely never sell and each one is money sitting on a shelf.
Kits carry better margins and more assembly time. Cost them as their own product and compare against selling the same items loose.
Cashowa reports average order value from your imports. Watching that figure while you experiment with bundles or free postage thresholds tells you quickly whether the change worked.
Switch between monthly, quarterly and yearly to see the pattern.
Autumn and winter are strongest as indoor hobbies pick up, with a clear lift before Christmas for gift making. Summer is usually the quietest stretch.
Upload twelve months and the pattern stops being something you half remember. You can switch between monthly, quarterly and yearly, which matters when income arrives in lumps and a single month tells you very little.
Import your sales file and Cashowa works out profit per product, what is selling, and what has not moved in sixty days. Enter what each item costs you once and the margins stop being guesswork.
Add a lead time and it warns you before something runs out, rather than after.
Reorder now
Mini home, Deluxe home will run out before a new order arrives.
| Product | Sold | Revenue | Cost | Stock |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mini home | 16 | $682.72 | $17.00 | 5 |
| Deluxe home | 37 | $4,011.17 | $37.00 | 0 |
| Starter home | 17 | $891.48 | $19.00 | 54 |
| Large home | 59 | $3,270.96 | $22.00 | 26 |
| Premium home | 42 | $4,692.24 | $38.00 | 31 |
Import an order export and Cashowa works these out on its own.
Net revenue
$18,420
after refunds
Gross profit
$7,905
after unit costs
Average order
$46.10
Repeat buyers
31.4%
of customers
Refund rate
4.2%
Lifetime value
$92.30
per customer
Built around how home and hobby craft supplies sell, not around a generic business.
The thing worth working on when orders are small.
Which shades and sizes to stop carrying.
Margin against the time it takes to assemble them.
The lever that matters most when baskets are small.
Prune a huge range using data rather than instinct.
These get recognised and sorted on their own when they turn up on your statement. If something specific to your setup gets filed wrongly, you fix it once and it sticks.
Export a statement, upload it, and the categorising happens on its own.
The things worth knowing before you sign up.
Other craft and hobby supplies categories Cashowa is built for.
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No bank login
You upload a statement. Cashowa never asks for your banking credentials.
No card to start
The free plan gives you credits every month without payment details.
CSV or PDF
Whatever your bank exports. No special format needed.
Your data stays yours
Stored against your account only, and you can delete it whenever.
Cashowa reads your statements and tells you straight. Free plan, no card required.