MadeKeeper is inventory and pricing software for amigurumi makers.
Two skeins of cotton, a pair of safety eyes, a pinch of fiberfill. Little amounts are the easiest ones to lose, so each goes on the piece and the plushie comes out with a real cost.
Free tools, no signup: the fair profit calculator.
free to start, and no card to start. No order-line meters, ever.
$19/mo for the whole back office, kept for as long as you stay. No card to start — MadeKeeper asks for one when you subscribe, not before. 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.
Amigurumi & plushies, specifically
Same books underneath — the numbers below are the ones that change.
Plush keychains & bag charms
Keychains and bag charms are the front row of the con table — forty minutes of crochet each, a keyring from the bag of a hundred, and a price point people don't have to think about. The business is volume: batches of twenty, restocked weekly, sold by the bowl. MadeKeeper batches the math so the little stuff gets counted like it sells.
Say you hook a batch of 20 bag charms:
- 1.5 skeins of cotton @ $3.29$4.94
- 20 keyring sets (per-100 bag @ $9.00)$1.80
- 20 pairs of 6 mm safety eyes$1.20
- Fiberfill$0.55
At $12 each, a charm clears $11.58 — and at thirty-five minutes of hooking apiece, that's about $19.85 an hour, which quietly beats most of the big plushies on the table. The bowl knew.
Your materials are chenille skeins, safety eyes by the pair and millimeter, and fiberfill by the bag — cheap enough that pricing by materials is a trap. An ami is hours of magic rings and invisible decreases, and the con table doesn't care that the yarn was $4. MadeKeeper puts your time on the price tag where it belongs.
How MadeKeeper maps to your hook and hoard
MadeKeeper stocks yarn, eyes and fill as real inventory
Chenille by the skein, 9 mm safety eyes by the pair from the bag of 100, fiberfill by weight. Each ami's recipe pulls its share down, so restock day is a number, not a guess.MadeKeeper builds a recipe per pattern
Your shop octopus and your jumbo bee use different yarn and different hours. Set a recipe per pattern and every finished ami knows its cost the moment you weave in the last end.MadeKeeper counts your table back after a con
Load 60 amis to the con, come home with 14 — that's 46 sold, and MadeKeeper's event math turns the table fee, the badge, the hotel, and the miles into a profit-per-hour verdict for that con.MadeKeeper holds custom slots without the chaos
Open five custom slots, log each as a commission with its own deposit and materials, and see which customs actually pay better than restocking the shop.One plushie, to the penny
Say you finish a medium octopus:
- 0.7 skein of chenille @ $4.99$3.49
- 1 pair 9 mm safety eyes (from a 100-pair bag)$0.08
- 40 g fiberfill$0.28
At a $38 con price, five hours of crochet paid $6.83 an hour. Now you know exactly what raising to $45 does — and what the answer to "can you do it for $20?" costs you.
If your amis could end up with small children, MadeKeeper keeps the materials and batch records that CPSIA paperwork asks about — so "not a toy" labeling decisions come with records behind them.
Market Saturday, for amigurumi makers
The bench is one half of it. MadeKeeper follows amigurumi makers out to the booth as well: it opens on one bar of signal, rings a sale in taps and files it against that day's event, holds that sale on the phone if the signal quits and puts it through when the bars come back, reads the tag you printed, and prints a market-day sheet before you load the truck.
None of that is a card reader. Amigurumi makers take payment however they already take it; MadeKeeper only keeps the count honest while you sell. Everything it does at the booth →
Straight about what's live
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 →
Questions amigurumi makers ask
Safety eyes come in bags of 100 pairs. How does that work?
Log the bag at its price and the per-pair cost computes itself — 8¢ a pair on an $8 bag. Each ami's recipe pulls pairs, and you'll see the bin running low before restock week.
Can MadeKeeper handle con weekends?
Yes. An event gets its table fee, travel, lodging, and hours; your load-out list and end-of-day count-back give it the sales. The verdict — go back or skip it — comes out in profit per hour.
How should I price customs versus restocks?
Log both honestly for a month and compare profit per hour. Customs usually win on price and lose on hours; MadeKeeper shows you which side of that trade your queue is actually on.
Is it worth costing something this small?
The bowl is where the math matters most — you sell fifty of these for every big plush. A season of charm batches is real money, and MadeKeeper adds it up while you keep hooking.
How fast can I log a batch?
Set the recipe once. After that, a new batch is one entry — twenty more charms on the books, materials drawn down, restock warning when the keyring bag runs low.
Do bag charms and keychains need separate tracking?
Only if the materials differ — a lobster-clasp charm and a keyring charm can be variants of one design. Their sales track separately, so you learn which hardware the buyers actually grab.
Ready to see your real numbers?
The app is live. $19/mo, kept for as long as you stay.