An embroidered hoop is the cheapest materials list in fiber — floss at 68 cents a skein, a fat quarter, the hoop it ships in — and one of the most labor-heavy things sold at any market. Pricing by materials is how hoop art ends up at $25. MadeKeeper counts the skeins, then puts your stitching hours where buyers can't argue with them: in the number.
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Say you finish a 6-inch botanical hoop:
At $58 you keep $47.23 before fees — and the eight hours of stitching paid $5.90 an hour. That's the number that argues for $75 better than any caption about handmade taking time.
Materials and true cost per piece, products (in bulk or one-of-a-kind), sales that drain stock, the was-this-fair-worth-it event math, mileage, expenses, and the year-end tax packet — all in the app today. Etsy and Square sync, your own storefront, a booth card reader, and shipping labels are building, shaped with founding makers. Nothing above describes a feature that doesn't exist without saying so. See the full live-vs-building list →
One skein, no. A drawer of two hundred, restocked every month, yes — and the point isn't the pennies anyway. It's that every hoop gets an honest cost so the price conversation can be about your hours, which are the real product.
A commissioned piece — wedding date, pet portrait in thread, a baby's birth stats — logs with its own materials and hours, plus the deposit when you take one. You'll see whether customs out-earn ready-mades per hour, not per warm feeling.
Yes — a digital pattern is a product with near-zero material cost, and its sales land in the same ledger. Watching pattern income beside hoop income tells you where your month actually came from.
The app is live and free during the pilot. Lock the $19/mo founding rate for as long as you stay.