MadeKeeper is inventory and pricing software for beekeepers.
A season of feed and treatments, plus the jars and lids, weighed against what you actually pulled off the supers — forty jars in, and each one carries its share of the whole year.
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.
Your inventory multiplies, swarms, and sometimes dies — hives are assets, not stock. The honey comes once or twice a year in extraction pulls of unpredictable size, and the year's feed, treatments, and foundation have to ride on whatever the bees gave you. MadeKeeper spreads the real costs across the real harvest.
How MadeKeeper maps to your bee yard
MadeKeeper carries hives as assets and honey as harvest
The hives carry the year's inputs — feed, treatments, foundation, a nuc or two. An extraction pull converts all that into pounds of honey with an honest cost per pound.MadeKeeper fills jars by weight, not by guess
A pull bottles into 1-lb and 8-oz jars by weight, each carrying its share of jar, lid, label, and the honey's per-pound cost. Creamed and varietal runs track separately.MadeKeeper values the cappings wax as a byproduct
The cappings become candles and blocks — log wax at its salvage value and the melter's output stops being invisible income.MadeKeeper follows honey from the stand to the honor box
Saturday markets, the stand out front, and honor-box sales each run their own channel — with the market math on every booth day.One jar, to the penny
Say the year's inputs were $180 across a 300-lb harvest:
- Honey cost per pound ($180 ÷ 300 lb)$0.60
- 1-lb jar (case of 12 @ $9.48)$0.79
- Lid and label$0.22
At $12 a jar you keep $10.39 before fees — and in a light year, when 300 lb becomes 180, the same math shows you exactly what the drought did to your margin.
MadeKeeper keeps your extraction and bottling records — pull dates, weights, lots — and honey labels carry weight in both ounces and grams; your state's small-producer rules stay yours to check.
Market Saturday, for beekeepers
The bench is one half of it. MadeKeeper follows beekeepers 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. Beekeepers 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 beekeepers ask
How do I cost honey when the bees do the work?
The year's real spending — feed, treatments, foundation, replacements — spreads across the pounds you actually pulled. Big year, low cost per pound; hard year, the truth. Both are worth knowing.
Can I track different pulls and varietals?
Yes — each extraction logs its own weight and date, and a spring wildflower pull bottles separately from the fall dark. Varietals keep their own prices and stock.
What about candles and wax products?
Cappings wax logs back in at salvage value and flows into candle recipes like any material — so the wax side of the business gets books too.
Ready to see your real numbers?
The app is live. $19/mo, kept for as long as you stay.