MadeKeeper is inventory and pricing software for makers.
Keep what you make. You do the work — this keeps the books, and the money.
Track your materials, cost every piece from what it really took, price it so it pays, and see which fairs and channels actually earned their day.
$19/mo, kept for as long as you stay. No card to start.
The shop stays free for cost a piece and one fair — no product cap. The tax packet, Etsy and Square, and more fairs are the $19.
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Not mockups. These are real screens from the app, running right now — a full year's tax packet and the reports behind it. Hover to scroll straight through them, or open the live demo and use the app yourself. They scroll themselves, top to bottom. Open the live demo and use the app yourself.
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Everything a maker needs, in one place
The big inventory platforms charge eighty to a hundred dollars a month and are built for warehouses. MadeKeeper costs nineteen and is built for one person and a workbench. It does every part of running a real small business — materials, true cost, pricing, sales, events, labels and taxes — and deliberately nothing beyond that. Here is all of it.
What MadeKeeper does
MadeKeeper tracks materials and the true cost of every piece
What a piece really cost you, from your own recipe — every piece carries its real materials cost the moment you make it.MadeKeeper spreads batch labor across every piece you make
Log 90 minutes to pour 12 candles and the labor lands at $2.50 a candle — the fully-loaded cost, not just materials, frozen at make time.MadeKeeper suggests a price your own numbers back up
The suggested-price coach reads your real cost and offers a retail and a wholesale price — and flags the pieces you're underpricing.Log a sale at the booth, from Etsy, or from Square, and MadeKeeper drops the stock behind it
Two taps at the table, or an Etsy or Square order imported with its real fees: the materials tick down while the money ticks up, and the profit is what you actually kept.When the market's packed up, MadeKeeper tells you what the Saturday was worth
Per-event profit-per-hour that ranks your markets, so you spend Saturdays where they actually pay.Come tax time, MadeKeeper hands over mileage, expenses and a Schedule-C packet
Every deduction captured and exported in Schedule-C-mapped columns — by year, quarter, month, or any date range.Setting MadeKeeper up takes about ten minutes. A maker enters materials once and logs a make; MadeKeeper carries the true cost onto every piece from that moment on. Sales arrive from Etsy, from Square, or typed in at the booth on a Saturday. MadeKeeper does the rest — the cost, the fees, the stock, the profit per piece, and the numbers a tax preparer asks for. See everything MadeKeeper does →
Materials and true cost per piece, batch "makes" with your labor amortized in, the suggested-price coach, product variants, sales that drain stock, the market-day quick-sale screen, lot tracking, the was-this-fair-worth-it event math, money-insight reports, multi-location consignment, the cure/best-by heads-up engine, mileage, expenses, and the Schedule C tax packet are all in the app today, with guided setup and a full Craftybase history migration to get you started. So are Etsy order sync, Square card sync, your own shop page, a Buy button on your own Square account, and custom-order requests off a piece you already sold. On the $24 MadeKeeper AI plan you also get receipts, shelves and recipe cards read from a photo — photo reads are on that plan; hand entry is how the $19 shop starts. Still building: your own books answered in plain words, buying a shipping label inside the app, and a best-customers report. MadeKeeper does not send marketing email to your buyers and is not going to: every maker here sends from one shared reputation, and a quote that has to arrive matters more than a mailing list. Nothing above is dressed up as done when it is not. See the full live-vs-building list →
Start today, free
The first piece of MadeKeeper is already live and it costs nothing: a calculator that answers whether a fair actually paid you for your Saturday. Booth fee, miles, your hours, materials, real profit per hour, and a straight verdict. Save your events and stack this year's markets against each other.
For every kind of maker
If you make a thing and sell it at a market or online, this was built with you in mind — the materials, the channels, and the numbers all bend to what you make.
Why MadeKeeper exists
On July 1, Craftybase — the tool a lot of makers ran their whole back office on — finished rebranding into Stocksmith, aimed now at businesses with six figures in revenue and staff in the workshop. Good software, real customer, fair enough. But it leaves behind the person it was first built for: the one making things at a kitchen table and selling Saturday mornings at a booth.
So I built MadeKeeper for exactly that person, and the app is live today — go use it free. The software built for makers is priced for companies with a warehouse and a bookkeeper. Eighty, a hundred dollars a month, before you have sold a thing. So the people who need it most — the ones selling at a market on Saturday to cover a bill on Monday — end up running a real business out of a notebook and a shoebox.
That is the whole reason MadeKeeper starts at nineteen dollars. Not a gimmick and not a teaser — nineteen is what it costs to run a business this small properly. Your two-hundred-dollar weekend deserves the same seriousness a bank gives a corporation, at a price you can actually pay.
Nineteen is what it stays. There is no scheduled increase, and anyone who subscribes gets a real say in what gets built next. I read every note that comes in.
— James, builder of MadeKeeper
Making things on the side stops being a hobby the moment the money matters. MadeKeeper is built for the person doing it after a full week of work — at the kitchen table, on a Saturday, with real bills behind it. MadeKeeper tracks materials and the true cost of every piece, prices the work so it pays, follows each sale from Etsy or the booth, tells you whether a fair actually earned its Saturday, and hands your tax preparer a clean year-end packet instead of a shoebox.
Coming from Craftybase? Free migration, and the sourced comparison →
What it costs
$19/mo for the whole back office, kept for as long as you stay. That is the price, and it is not going up on you — the rate is locked to the maker for as long as the subscription runs. The shop stays free for cost a piece and one fair; the tax packet, Etsy and Square, and more fairs are the $19.
MadeKeeper AI is $24/mo (or $240 a year) if you want it to read receipts, shelves and recipe cards from a photo — optional, and nothing in the $19 moves into it.
Whenever you start, you get the same deal: that $19 for as long as you keep the subscription, first say in what gets built next, and a direct line to the person building it.
No card to start. The free shop is free for as long as you like.