Atlessa Manufacturing
by Atlessa
A Shopify app that adds the making side to a Shopify store: multi-level BOMs, production runs that draw lots first-expiry-first and close at actual cost, expiry control, and lot trace from supplier delivery to customer order with a recall list. One plan at $69 a month, billed through Shopify.
Why it is classified this way
We call this a Light manufacturing product. Has bills of materials or recipes, consumes stock when you build, and tracks production, but time-phased planning is not verified.
It is not labeled Full MRP because we have not verified that it accepts dated demand, sales orders, a forecast, or a master production schedule; nets that demand against stock on hand and orders already incoming; explodes requirements through at least one level of the bill of materials; uses lead times or required dates; and produces dated buy, make, transfer, release, or reschedule recommendations. That is a statement about the evidence we found, not a claim that the product is weak, see the capability table and the sources below.
The six Full MRP tests, and how Atlessa Manufacturing does on each (1 of 6)
- YesIt represents a bill of materials, recipe, or formula.Evidence: docs.atlessa.com › Bills of materials(opens in a new tab); atlessa.com(opens in a new tab)
- PartialIt accepts dated demand, sales orders, a forecast, or a master production schedule.Not established. Only partly shown: the evidence covers some of this but not all of it, so the test is not established.
- PartialIt nets that demand against stock on hand and orders already incoming.Not established. Only partly shown: the evidence covers some of this but not all of it, so the test is not established.
- UnknownIt explodes requirements through at least one level of the bill of materials.Not established. No evidence found yet.
- UnknownIt uses lead times or required dates.Not established. No evidence found yet.
- UnknownIt produces dated buy, make, transfer, release, or reschedule recommendations.Not established. No evidence found yet.
These rules are applied identically to every product and enforced at build time, a record cannot be published as Full MRP unless all six pass with a source attached. Read the methodology.
Best for
- Shopify cosmetics, skincare and candle makers who need lot trace and a recall list without paying for an add-on
- Makers who want each production run closed at its actual material cost, waste included, with margin per product
- Shops with sub-assemblies such as a base or blend that goes into several finished products
Not a fit when
- Anyone selling on Etsy, Amazon, WooCommerce or wholesale outside Shopify, since it runs only as a Shopify app
- Makers with stock in more than one location, because version 1 syncs a single Shopify location
- High-volume shops with many order lines, where the per-line charge adds up to the spend cap each month
Pricing facts
What it costs to do manufacturing in this product.
Advertised from
$69/month
Useful entry price
$69/month
Billing basis
Mixed
Free trial: 14 days.
Plans
| Plan | Price | Add-ons and setup |
|---|---|---|
| Atlessa ManufacturingBilled monthly | $69/mo | — |
| 1,000 order lines included each billing cycle; each additional line $0.03, up to a monthly spend cap ($50 by default). Single Shopify location in v1. Billed through Shopify. Users are not mentioned on the pricing section or the billing article. | ||
Cheapest paid plan that manufactures, by paid users
- 1 user: Atlessa Manufacturing, $69 a month (billed monthly); first year $828.
- 5 users: Atlessa Manufacturing, $69 a month (billed monthly); first year $828.
- 10 users: Atlessa Manufacturing, $69 a month (billed monthly); first year $828.
Pricing detail
One plan: $69 a month including 1,000 order lines each billing cycle. Each additional order line is 3 cents, up to a monthly spend cap you set ($50 by default), so the most a month can cost at the default cap is $119. An order line is one line item on one order, so an order with three products counts as three. Billing runs through Shopify on Shopify's 30-day cycle. The homepage says lot trace is in the base plan, "not an add-on". 14-day free trial. No annual price is published, and the pages do not state a user limit.
Checked on October 9, 2026. Source: atlessa.com(opens in a new tab). Prices change. Check before you buy.
Manufacturing capability
13 of 25 fields resolved. "Unknown" means we have not found first-party evidence. It is not a No.
Planning
Working out what to buy or make, and when.
| Capability | Finding | What we found |
|---|---|---|
| Accepts dated demandYou can tell it what is due and when, sales orders with dates, a forecast, or a production schedule. | Partial | Shopify orders become demand for production. The Make a batch article defines "Pending demand: order units you owe but have not made", and a new run can start "From pending demand", which "prefills the products and quantities your orders owe". Orders carry no required dates in this view and there is no forecast.Reviewed October 9, 2026. Source: docs.atlessa.com › Make a batch(opens in a new tab)Question this |
| Nets against stock on handIt subtracts what you already have before telling you to buy more. | Partial | Demand and buildable stock sit side by side: "Buildable is supply: how many of a product you can make now from materials on hand. Pending demand is demand: how many units your orders owe but you have not made." The docs describe no calculation that turns the shortfall into a materials requirement.Reviewed October 9, 2026. Source: docs.atlessa.com › Make a batch(opens in a new tab)Question this |
| Counts incoming ordersIt knows about purchase orders and production orders already placed, so it does not tell you to order twice. | Unknown | Not yet researched. We would need: documentation showing open purchase or production orders included in the supply picture.Know the answer? |
| Uses lead timesIt works backwards from when you need something to when you must order or start it, using supplier and production lead times. | Unknown | Not yet researched. We would need: documentation showing lead time fields that shift a suggested order or start date.Know the answer? |
| Produces dated buy/make suggestionsThe output is an actionable list with dates, order this much by this date, start this batch on this date. | Unknown | Not yet researched. We would need: documentation or a screenshot of replenishment or planning suggestions carrying dates.Know the answer? |
| Capacity planningChecks whether your people and machines can do the work in the time available. | Unknown | Not yet researched. We would need: documentation of work-center or resource capacity being compared against load.Know the answer? |
Production
Recipes, bills of materials, and running the work.
| Capability | Finding | What we found |
|---|---|---|
| Bill of materialsA list of the parts and quantities needed to make one of something. | Yes | The docs say: "A bill of materials is the recipe for a product: the components and quantities that go into one unit. Every run reads from it."Reviewed October 9, 2026. Source: docs.atlessa.com › Bills of materials(opens in a new tab); atlessa.com(opens in a new tab)Question this |
| Multi-level BOMSub-assemblies inside assemblies, a part that is itself made from other parts, nested as deep as you need. | Yes | The BOM article says: "A multi-level BOM has a component that is another product's BOM output, so the recipe runs two or more levels deep." Its example is a lip tint made from a lip tint base that has its own BOM.Reviewed October 9, 2026. Source: docs.atlessa.com › Bills of materials(opens in a new tab)Question this |
| Recipes & formulasBatch-style production by weight, volume, or percentage, including scaling a batch up or down. | Partial | A BOM has a batch size: "Units per batch is the smallest batch the recipe makes (1 for make to order, 100 if a batch yields a hundred)." Quantities are by weight or count in each component's stock unit. Percentage formulas, recipe versions and scaling to another batch size are not described.Reviewed October 9, 2026. Source: docs.atlessa.com › Bills of materials(opens in a new tab)Question this |
| Work / manufacturing ordersA record authorising and tracking the making of a specific quantity. | Yes | The Make a batch article says: "A production run turns materials into finished stock." Runs move from draft to production to closed, with partial close, hold and cancel. The homepage says: "Close a run and the finished goods enter stock at the exact cost of what went in."Reviewed October 9, 2026. Source: docs.atlessa.com › Make a batch(opens in a new tab); atlessa.com(opens in a new tab)Question this |
| Routings & operationsThe ordered steps a product goes through, and which machine or station does each one. | Unknown | Not yet researched. We would need: documentation of operation sequences or routings attached to production.Know the answer? |
| Shop-floor trackingOperators report progress, time, and completions as the work happens. | Unknown | Not yet researched. We would need: documentation of a shop-floor, operator, or terminal interface for reporting production.Know the answer? |
| Quality controlsChecks, tests, holds, and non-conformance records tied to production or receiving. | Partial | Lots can be held: "Quarantine is the one state you set by hand." Drawing a hard-lapsed lot needs a reason "from a fixed list, for example Approved by QA or Sample or test batch" and a note. No inspections or test results are described.Reviewed October 9, 2026. Source: docs.atlessa.com › Batches and lots(opens in a new tab); docs.atlessa.com › Make a batch(opens in a new tab)Question this |
Inventory & traceability
Knowing what you hold and being able to trace it.
| Capability | Finding | What we found |
|---|---|---|
| Batch & lot traceabilityWhich incoming material lots went into which finished batch, and where those finished goods went. | Yes | The docs say: "Every receipt mints a lot and every closed run mints a lot", and the draw "records precisely which received lots went into a run or an order, so a finished lot traces back to the material lots it consumed and a material lot forward to the orders it reached." Recall impact exports a list of affected orders as CSV. Finished-lot-to-order links are an estimate unless lots are assigned at packing.Reviewed October 9, 2026. Source: docs.atlessa.com › Batches and lots(opens in a new tab); docs.atlessa.com › Trace a lot(opens in a new tab); atlessa.com(opens in a new tab)Question this |
| Expiry & shelf lifeBest-before dates on materials and finished goods, with warnings before they lapse. | Yes | Each batch-traced item has a control date: "the date type (expiry, best-before, or use-by), whether it is hard or soft, and a warn-lead window (how far ahead to warn)." A lot past a hard date is "Held out of available and blocked from being drawn."Reviewed October 9, 2026. Source: docs.atlessa.com › Batches and lots(opens in a new tab); atlessa.com(opens in a new tab)Question this |
| Serial numbersUnique identifiers on individual units, for warranty or field service. | Unknown | Not yet researched. We would need: documentation of serial number tracking on individual units.Know the answer? |
Commerce & accounting
Costs, purchasing, storefronts, and the books.
| Capability | Finding | What we found |
|---|---|---|
| Product costing & COGSWhat it costs you to make one, and the cost of the goods you sold. | Yes | Material cost is a weighted average of landed cost from receipts, and closing a run "mints a new finished lot, sets the real cost per unit, and folds the finished goods into on-hand stock". A Margins report shows units, WAC unit cost, revenue and margin per product.Reviewed October 9, 2026. Source: docs.atlessa.com › Make a batch(opens in a new tab); docs.atlessa.com › Receive stock(opens in a new tab); docs.atlessa.com › Margins(opens in a new tab)Question this |
| PurchasingRaising and tracking purchase orders to suppliers from inside the system. | Partial | Deliveries are received with a supplier, landed cost and lot details: "Each row is one receipt: the item and SKU, whether it is batch-traced, the received date, the lot it minted, how much was bought and stocked, the unit and landed cost, any control type and date, and the supplier." We found no purchase orders raised to suppliers before goods arrive.Reviewed October 9, 2026. Source: docs.atlessa.com › Receive stock(opens in a new tab)Question this |
| Accounting connectionSends financial data to bookkeeping software, or includes its own general ledger. | Unknown | Not yet researched. We would need: documentation of a named accounting integration or a built-in ledger.Know the answer? |
| Ecommerce connectionPulls orders and pushes stock levels to a storefront or marketplace. | Yes | It is a Shopify app and works only with Shopify. The docs say Atlessa "reads your Shopify catalog and orders and writes true available stock back, so the number a customer sees is the number you can build." Stock write-back is off until you turn it on.Reviewed October 9, 2026. Source: docs.atlessa.com › What atlessa is(opens in a new tab); docs.atlessa.com › Inventory sync(opens in a new tab); atlessa.com(opens in a new tab)Question this |
Openness & your data
Getting data in, out, and away if you leave.
| Capability | Finding | What we found |
|---|---|---|
| APIA documented programming interface so other software can read and write your data. | Unknown | Not yet researched. We would need: public api documentation.Know the answer? |
| WebhooksThe system can notify other software the moment something changes. | Unknown | Not yet researched. We would need: documentation of outbound webhooks or event subscriptions.Know the answer? |
| MCP supportA Model Context Protocol server, letting an AI assistant read or act on this data. Useful, but it has nothing to do with whether the product plans materials. | Unknown | Not yet researched. We would need: a first-party mcp server, or documentation of one.Know the answer? |
| CSV exportYou can get your lists out as spreadsheet files. | Yes | The exports article says the Exports tab "holds eight CSVs covering inventory, valuation, production, orders, order margin, and billing usage, each with its own Download CSV button."Reviewed October 9, 2026. Source: docs.atlessa.com › Exports(opens in a new tab)Question this |
| Full data exportYou can take everything, including history and relationships, not just a few screens' worth of rows. | Unknown | Not yet researched. We would need: documentation of a complete account export, database dump, or equivalent.Know the answer? |
Deployment, licensing and your data
- Deployment
- Cloud (hosted for you)
- Licensing
- Proprietary SaaS
- Team sizes
- Just me, 2–5 people, 6–20 people
- Manufacturing styles
- Batch & recipe products, Countable assembled products
Integrations
- Shopify
Jobs this product qualifies for
Derived from the capability table above, not hand-assigned.
Editorial notes and cautions
Things we would want a friend to know before buying.
- Shopify only. Atlessa installs from the Shopify App Store, bills through Shopify and treats Shopify as the system of record for products and orders. If you leave Shopify, you leave Atlessa.
- The $69 covers 1,000 order lines a cycle, not 1,000 orders. Past that, each line is 3 cents up to your spend cap ($50 by default), so a busy month can cost up to $119 unless you change the cap.
- Version 1 is single-location: stock lives at your primary Shopify location.
- Finished-lot-to-order links are estimates unless you assign lots at packing. The recall list includes estimated orders as a safe over-set, but record lots at pack time if you need exact records.
Alternatives to Atlessa Manufacturing
An alternative is always an alternative for a reason. There is no universal replacement.
Inventora starts at $19 a month, connects several storefronts and QuickBooks, and does not meter order lines; Atlessa goes further on lot trace and recall.
- KatanaStronger true MRP
Katana adds lead-time based purchase planning, multi-location stock and a public API, and connects to more storefronts than Shopify alone.
- StocksmithBetter commerce & accounting connection
Stocksmith connects to Etsy, Amazon, Faire and WooCommerce as well as Shopify, so it fits a maker who sells beyond one Shopify store.
Compared on Orderkraft's page, where we wrote: "Atlessa is also a Shopify-only app but documents material stock, lot trace with a recall list and production runs closed at actual cost, which Orderkraft does not describe."
See all alternatives to Atlessa Manufacturing, grouped by reason →
Evidence and verification
Why this record is not Verified. New record from one research pass on 2026-10-09. Held at partially verified until an editor re-reads the cited pages.
Evidence comes from atlessa.com and the public manual at docs.atlessa.com, read in full for production, lots, trace, BOMs, receiving, exports, billing and sync. The Shopify App Store listing was not read.
Sources we checked (11)
atlessa.com
docs.atlessa.com
- Home page(opens in a new tab)
- What atlessa is(opens in a new tab)
- Make a batch(opens in a new tab)
- Batches and lots(opens in a new tab)
- Trace a lot(opens in a new tab)
- Bills of materials(opens in a new tab)
- Receive stock(opens in a new tab)
- Exports(opens in a new tab)
- Billing(opens in a new tab)
- Inventory sync(opens in a new tab)
What we still want to confirm
We publish our gaps rather than hiding them. If you can point us at a first-party page for any of these, we will update the record and credit the correction.
- Confirm how many staff accounts the plan allows. Neither the pricing section nor the billing article mentions users.
- Confirm whether an API, webhooks or an accounting connection exist. The manual mentions none.
- Confirm whether purchase orders can be raised before goods arrive; the manual documents receiving only.
- Confirm whether recipes can be versioned or scaled by percentage.
Still unknown: counts incoming orders, uses lead times, produces dated buy/make suggestions, capacity planning, routings & operations, shop-floor tracking, serial numbers, accounting connection, api, webhooks, mcp support, full data export.