For small manufacturers
Sales, input costs and production exports in one place
A small manufacturer's numbers are split between the CRM, the payment processor, spreadsheets from the shop floor and the price of what it buys. clariBI connects the parts that have APIs, reads your exports for the rest and answers questions across them.
14-day trial with 50 AI credits and no credit card. Afterwards the Free plan keeps your data and source dashboards.
You connect
StripeHubSpot
PipedrivePayPalSquare
Frankfurter
PipedrivePayPalSquareFrankfurter
01 What to connect
The tools that hold the numbers
| Sales | HubSpot, Pipedrive or another CRM; Stripe, PayPal or Square for payments. |
| Input costs | Commodities-API and Metals-API for raw material prices, U.S. Energy Information Administration and Electricity Maps for energy. |
| Currencies and macro data | Fixer, Frankfurter or Open Exchange Rates; FRED and the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics for price indexes. |
| Production and stock | Exports from your ERP or production spreadsheets as CSV or Excel, or a Google Sheet. |
| Warehouse | PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle or BigQuery, if you already keep data there. |
02 Questions
Examples of what you can ask
Production data only gets into clariBI as a file or through a database you connect. The more regular the export, the more useful the dashboards.
| Question | Where the answer comes from |
|---|---|
| "How did copper and aluminium prices move this quarter compared with our order volume?" | Metals-API next to CRM or order exports. |
| "What is our defect rate by line and week?" | A production export with quantities and rejects. |
| "How much did the euro exchange rate change our margin on export orders?" | Order export next to daily exchange rates. |
| "Which customers ordered less this year than last?" | CRM deals or order exports. |
| "How did electricity prices track against our energy bills?" | Energy price feed next to a sheet of bills. |
03 Dashboards
What to set up first
- Automatic dashboards for each price feed and each export.
- An input cost dashboard with the materials and currencies you buy in.
- Manufacturing templates for bottlenecks by line, defect rates, shift productivity, inventory turnover and supplier on-time delivery, built for spreadsheet exports.
04 Limits
What clariBI does not do here
- No connectors for ERP, MES, SCADA or machine sensor systems. Nothing is read from equipment.
- No real-time monitoring. Files update when you upload a new one; API sources sync daily by default.
- It does not plan production or manage stock.
See also
Try it on your own data
The trial lasts 14 days and needs no credit card. When it ends you move to the Free plan and keep your data and source dashboards.