Benchtop Inventory & Materials vs Material Manager
Two Shopify apps, side by side: detected stores, momentum, reviews, plans, listed features and who runs each. Store counts as of Oct 14, 2026 for Benchtop Inventory & Materials, Nov 1, 2026 for Material Manager.
The short answer
- Both list a free plan. Paid plans start at $20/month for Benchtop Inventory & Materials and $19.99/month for Material Manager.
- Material Manager lists 6 features Benchtop Inventory & Materials’s listing doesn’t mention, including Email notifications, Forecasting, Multi-location.
Head to head
Momentum
New reviews each month
Review pace is the clearest public read on how fast an app is winning new merchants.
free
- · Automatic Shopify stock sync
- · Import material from a photo or file
- · Low-stock alerts
- · Make to stock or make to order
- · See what you can make
- · True cost and margins
pro
- · Cost of goods report
- · Everything in Free
- · Inventory valuation report
- · Unlimited materials
- · Unlimited recipes
Free
- · Unlimited locations
- · Up to 100 orders per month
- · Up to 3 materials
- · Up to 5 variants per materials
Standard
- · Low stock notifications
- · Unlimited locations
- · Unlimited materials
- · Unlimited variants per material
- · Up to 2,000 orders per month
Advanced
- · Low stock notifications
- · Unlimited locations
- · Unlimited materials
- · Unlimited variants per material
- · Up to 7,500 orders per month
Professional
- · Low stock notifications
- · Unlimited locations
- · Unlimited materials
- · Unlimited variants per material
- · Up to 15,000 orders per month
Coverage counts what each App Store listing names. Every feature, checked off app by app, is in Shoplist.
See every featureYou buy raw materials and make your products from them. Set up fast: snap a photo of a supplier invoice, receipt, or spreadsheet and Benchtop reads your materials and costs in. It tracks what you have, warns you before you run low, and shows how many you can make right now.
Material Manager keeps raw material and bill of materials (BOM) inventory in sync with your Shopify products that have shared inventory. Link component inventory to variants once, every sale updates raw material and product stock instantly. Built for on-demand, bespoke, and pre-assembled production across multi-locations. Manage pre-built variant stock alongside raw materials so you never oversell.
- Log production once to update materials and your store stock.
- See your true margin on every product you make.
- Build a recipe for each product so you know exactly what goes into it.
- Track raw materials, what you paid, and stock levels, with low-stock alerts.
- Realtime: product inventory syncs with changing raw material inventory
- Intuitive UI: seamlessly integrated with the Shopify admin interface
- Product integration: add materials to products from the Shopify product page
- Efficient: quickly update your materials with import/export functionality
All the numbers
Every figure, side by side
A green dot marks the app ahead on a measured figure. Estimates, gaps and apps that leave no storefront trace never take the lead.
Adoption
| Measure |  Benchtop Inventory & Materials | Material Manager |
|---|---|---|
| Detected stores | Not published | Not published |
| Net store change, 28 days | 0 | 0 |
| Stores added, 28 days | Not enough data | Not enough data |
| Big-brand share | Not enough data | Not enough data |
| Top store categories | Not published | Not published |
| Top store countries | Not published | Not published |
Reviews
| Measure | Benchtop Inventory & Materials | Material Manager |
|---|---|---|
| App Store rating | Not published | 4.4 ★ |
| App Store reviews | Not published | 24 |
| New reviews, 28 days | Not enough data | 1 |
| Reviewers a year or more in | Not enough data | Not enough data |
Pricing
| Measure | Benchtop Inventory & Materials | Material Manager |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Lowest paid monthly plan | $20/month | $19.99/month(ahead) |
| Longest free trial | Not listed | 7 days |
| Plans listed | 2 | 4 |
Listing
| Measure | Benchtop Inventory & Materials | Material Manager |
|---|---|---|
| Shopify category rank | #261 | #12(ahead) |
| Shopify App Charts | Not on this week’s charts | Not on this week’s charts |
| Built for Shopify | No | Yes |
| Launched | Jul 23, 2026 | Dec 14, 2023 |
| Languages | 1 | 1 |
| Developer | OriKone LLC | Omatic |
FAQ
Benchtop Inventory & Materials and Material Manager: common questions
- Is Benchtop Inventory & Materials or Material Manager cheaper?
- Both list a free plan. Paid plans start at $20/month for Benchtop Inventory & Materials and $19.99/month for Material Manager. Shoplist compares base prices only between monthly plans in the same currency; usage charges and annual plans vary, so check each plan’s limits.
- What features does each app list that the other doesn’t?
- Benchtop Inventory & Materials lists 1 the others don’t mention, such as Insights. Material Manager lists 6 the others don’t mention, such as Email notifications, Forecasting, Multi-location, Out of stock notifications. A feature missing from a listing may still be supported; this compares what each App Store listing says.
- Where does this comparison’s data come from?
- Shoplist crawls Shopify storefronts to detect which apps each store runs, and reads each app’s Shopify App Store listing for reviews, pricing, features and integrations. Store counts are as of Oct 14, 2026 for Benchtop Inventory & Materials, Nov 1, 2026 for Material Manager; estimated figures are labeled.
How Shoplist compares apps
Store counts come from Shoplist’s crawl of Shopify storefronts, which detects the apps each store runs; they are as of Oct 14, 2026 for Benchtop Inventory & Materials, Nov 1, 2026 for Material Manager. Reviews, ratings, plans, features and integrations come from each app’s Shopify App Store listing. 28-day figures are labeled when estimated, and a figure that is missing or estimated never decides who leads. Read the methodology.