MadeKeeper is inventory and pricing software for small-flock egg sellers.
Feed for the month and a sleeve of cartons, against the dozens the flock actually laid. That is your cost per dozen, and it moves when the feed store does.
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.
The hens are assets, the feed bill is the business. Between the flock's appetite, cartons by the hundred, and lay rates that sag in winter, most small flocks have no idea what a dozen truly costs — only that $6 at the honor box "feels fair." MadeKeeper divides the feed by the dozens and hands you the number.
How MadeKeeper maps to your coop
MadeKeeper carries the flock as an asset
Layers, pullets, and the occasional straight-run surprise log as the flock — with feed, bedding, and replacements as the running cost of keeping them.MadeKeeper spreads feed across the dozens you sell
The week's feed divided by the week's dozens is your true cost — and it moves with lay rate, so winter eggs cost more than June eggs, exactly like they should.MadeKeeper divides a hundred cartons down to one
Cartons bought by the hundred cost cents each and log that way, labels included — the packaging half of every dozen.MadeKeeper reconciles the honor box and the market table
Roadside honor-box sales, market days, and standing customer pickups each run their own channel, with shrink and cracked eggs counted as the normal losses they are.One dozen, to the penny
Say your 12-hen flock lays about 4.9 dozen a week:
- 21 lb of feed a week @ 74¢/lb$15.54
- Feed cost per dozen ($15.54 ÷ 4.9)$3.17
- Carton (per-100) and label$0.42
At $6 in the honor box you keep $2.41 a dozen — and when winter drops the lay rate to 3.5 dozen a week, the same math shows your cost climbing to $4.86, before you find out the hard way.
Selling eggs usually involves an egg-handler registration and carton labeling in most states — MadeKeeper keeps the sales and flock records that paperwork asks about, in the app instead of a coop-door notebook.
Market Saturday, for small-flock egg sellers
The bench is one half of it. MadeKeeper follows small-flock egg sellers 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. Small-flock egg sellers 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 small-flock egg sellers ask
How do I cost eggs when hens just lay them?
The feed bill is the cost. MadeKeeper spreads it across your actual dozens, so lay rate swings show up as cost swings — the honest arithmetic of a small flock.
Can I track the honor box?
Yes — box sales log as their own channel, cash counted at collection. Shortages log as the shrink they are, and you'll finally know whether the box out-earns the market table.
What about pullets and flock changes?
New birds log as flock additions with their costs; losses log out. Your per-dozen number always reflects the flock you're actually feeding.
Ready to see your real numbers?
The app is live. $19/mo, kept for as long as you stay.