08/10/2026
Mobile Knife Maker Inventory App overview
Knife Maker Inventory is a cross-platform shop-management app built specifically for knife makers. It connects the whole workflow—from customer request and build planning through materials, production, sale, invoicing, and profit reporting.
The core business data is stored locally in a database, and the app targets Android, iOS, and Windows.
Modules
Home — Customizable shortcuts to the areas used most often. Buttons can be rearranged and recolored.
Dashboard — At-a-glance totals for knives, available and sold inventory, yearly sales, customers, suppliers, and recently created knives. and upcoming filters.
Customers — Stores contact information, notes, social links, assigned knives, activity history, conversations, and follow-up reminders. Customers can also be imported from phone contacts.
Knives — The central inventory module. Tracks specifications, dynamic knife details, photos, customer ownership, availability, labor, pricing, payment information, and sale history.
Knife BOM(Build of Material) — Records the materials used to build each knife. It calculates material and labor costs, total build cost, and profit while automatically updating inventory.
BOM Templates — Saves frequently used combinations of materials, quantities, units, costs, and notes so a common build can be added quickly.
Suppliers — Manages makers, vendors, service providers, websites, social-media links, discount codes, contact activity, and follow-ups.
Knife Materials — Tracks steel, handle materials, hardware, Pins, Liners,Pommels, Guards, abrasives, leather, and other supplies to build a knife. Each material item can have multiple suppliers, quantity on hand, unit cost, low-stock threshold, and movement history.
Inventory History — Records material received, used, adjusted, wasted, or returned, with dates, quantities, costs, and notes.
Knife Tracker — Plans custom orders before they become finished knives. It records customer requirements, pricing, deposits, deadlines, status history, design details, build notes, and checklist progress.
Build Templates — Reusable tracker templates containing starting statuses, knife details, material quantities, checklist stages, estimated minutes, and notes.
Products — Maintains reusable products and services such as sharpening, repairs, sheaths, accessories, classes, and standard fees, including pricing and stock history.
Invoices — Creates customer invoices containing products, unsold knives, services, or custom line items. It calculates tax, discounts, shipping, payments, totals, and remaining balances.
Reports — Covers knife sales, monthly sales, aging inventory, knives on hand, material inventory, low stock, BOM usage, build costs, profit, products, invoices, customers, suppliers, follow-ups, and tracked orders. Most reports support PDF export.
Quick Start Guide — An offline, interactive setup checklist with saved progress and links directly into the appropriate modules.
Settings and Preferences — Controls business name, themes, cost-calculation method, image handling, navigation behavior, search style, result limits, Home layout, and knife-specific behavior.
Knife Details Setup — Lets the user design the fields used for knife entry. A field can use a saved list or connect directly to a material category.
Lookup Manager — Maintains reusable choices such as payment methods, activity types, material units, supplier categories, checklist stages, and status values.
Import and Export — Provides filtered CSV exports, advanced table exports, ZIP bundles, and full-data export options.
Backup, Restore, and Maintenance — Supports full database backups, recovery, and password-protected data maintenance operations.
About Knife — Provides application and support information.
Especially cool features:
Convert a planned build into a finished knife: “Create Knife” transfers tracker details into a real knife record, generates eligible BOM items, deducts materials, and links the order and knife together.
Automatic inventory accounting: Adding, editing, or removing BOM usage produces the appropriate inventory movement automatically.
Unit conversion: Material can be stocked in one unit and consumed in another—for example, storing steel in feet while recording eight inches of usage.
Build-cost and profit calculation: Combines material cost with labor hours/rate or length/cost-per-inch to calculate total cost and profit.
Flexible inventory mode: The app can run with full material inventory, simple cost-only BOM entries, or a hybrid of both.
Custom knife-detail system: Shops can create their own fields and decide whether each field uses a lookup list or real inventory materials.
Build and BOM templates: Repeated knife styles can start with predefined materials, details, stages, and checklist tasks.
Production checklists: Tracker tasks are grouped by stage, timestamped, given estimated minutes, and summarized with a completion progress bar.
Visual knife gallery: Search and browse knives visually, attach photos, open them full-screen, and zoom or pan on supported devices.
Smart searching: Supports partial or exact matching, explicit wildcards, archived-record filtering, reusable criteria, and filtered CSV exports.
Customer communication: Call, email, map addresses, schedule follow-ups, and generate an editable thank-you email or text after a sale.
Invoice receipts: Export a receipt PDF or open the device’s sharing flow to send it.
Local-first and portable: Core records live in a local database with comprehensive backup and CSV/ZIP export options.
The app is essentially a specialized knife-making CRM, inventory system, build tracker, costing tool, and sales platform in one package.
