MadeKeeper is inventory and pricing software for flower farmers.
Cents a stem is the number you want, and it comes from one place: what the bulbs, seed, sleeves and buckets cost, over the stems you actually cut and sold.
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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.
Flower farming, specifically
Same books underneath — the numbers below are the ones that change.
Sunflower stand
A sunflower stand is the simplest beautiful business in farming: succession plantings every two weeks, stems cut at first light, bunches in buckets by the road with an honor jar — and a season that ends the week the plantings do. Pennies per stem, dollars per bunch, and a jar that mostly adds up. MadeKeeper keeps the whole sunny operation counted.
Say you cut 210 stems for the week — 30 bunches:
- 210 stems @ 9¢ attributed growing cost$18.90
- Sleeves and rubber bands, 30 bunches$4.20
- Bucket water and stand odds$3.10
At $8 a bunch the week grosses $240.00 and keeps $213.80 before any jar shortage — a roadside business that runs while you do other work, finally with a bottom line under it.
You count in stems and bunches, sell in bouquets, and everything is days from compost. A bouquet is literally a recipe — five focals, eight fillers, five greens — and the market bucket that doesn't sell by Sunday is gone. MadeKeeper prices the recipe, respects the perishable clock, and counts the tuber sale as the second season it is.
How MadeKeeper maps to your field and cooler
MadeKeeper cuts stems into buckets by variety
The morning cut logs in stems by variety. Costs attribute from the season's real inputs — seed, corms, amendments, water — spread across what the field actually gave.MadeKeeper builds a bouquet from a recipe of stems
Five focal, eight filler, five greens, a wrap and a band — the bouquet recipe pulls stems down and knows its cost, so market pricing stops being vibes.MadeKeeper runs the perishable clock against your cut
Unsold Saturday bouquets are shrink by Monday, and MadeKeeper logs them that way. Your season's numbers show true sell-through, week by week.MadeKeeper prices the tuber sale apart from subscriptions
Market days, bouquet-share subscriptions, weddings, and the fall dahlia tuber sale each run their own channel — two harvests a year from one field, both counted.One bouquet, to the penny
Say you build a market bouquet:
- 5 focal stems @ 70¢ (attributed)$3.50
- 8 filler stems @ 25¢$2.00
- 5 greens @ 15¢$0.75
- Kraft wrap and band$0.55
At $18 at the market, each bouquet clears $11.20 before the booth fee — and the bucket of six that didn't sell logs as the shrink it became, so August's real numbers include July's compost.
If you sell tubers or plants alongside cut stems, that side often runs under a nursery program — MadeKeeper keeps the sales and lot records that paperwork asks about, separate from your cut-flower sales.
Market Saturday, for flower farmers
The bench is one half of it. MadeKeeper follows flower farmers 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. Flower farmers 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 flower farmers ask
How do I cost a stem I grew?
Spread the season's real inputs — seed and corms, amendments, water — across the stems you actually cut, by variety or in aggregate. It's an honest attribution, not false precision, and it makes every bouquet's margin real.
Can MadeKeeper handle bouquet subscriptions?
Yes — a bouquet share is a subscription channel: recurring revenue against the weekly recipe cost, tracked over the season alongside market days.
What about the dahlia tuber sale?
The fall dig is a second harvest. Tubers log as their own products with their own prices — and their sale often out-earns the summer stems, which is worth seeing in plain numbers.
How do I cost a stem I grew from a $4 seed packet?
Spread seed, water, and amendments across the stems the rows actually gave — it lands around a dime. The point isn't precision to the penny; it's that the bunch price stands on something, and the jar's math closes every night.
What does the honor jar usually lose?
Stands that count report a few percent — and counting is the only way to know yours. Log buckets out and cash in daily; if the gap grows, you'll see it in the ledger before it becomes a resentment.
Can I sell to florists or the farmers market too?
Yes — florist buckets at wholesale and a Saturday market table run as their own channels beside the stand. Three outlets for one row of gold, each with its own honest margin.
Ready to see your real numbers?
The app is live. $19/mo, kept for as long as you stay.