MadeKeeper is inventory and pricing software for fly tyers and lure makers.
Hooks arrive by the hundred and one cape ties flies for months, which is why cost per dozen gets guessed. Break the dozen into hooks, hackle and dubbing and the guessing stops.
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 catalog is a matrix — every pattern in six sizes, because a #16 is not a #12 and the guy who wants woolly buggers wants them by the dozen. Hooks come per-100, hackle by the cape or saddle that ties a couple hundred flies, and the pennies matter at wholesale. MadeKeeper keeps the matrix and does the per-dozen math.
How MadeKeeper maps to your tying bench
MadeKeeper breaks a hundred-pack of hooks down by size
A hundred #8 streamers and a hundred #18 dries log as what they are — different hooks, different costs. Every fly pulls its hook from the right box.MadeKeeper buys hackle by the cape and the saddle
A $42 saddle that ties 200 flies is 21¢ a fly — and MadeKeeper spreads it that way, so your bugger dozens carry real feather cost instead of a shrug.MadeKeeper keeps a pattern and its sizes as one product
One pattern, six sizes, each with its own count. Sell by the fly or by the dozen, and the matrix tracks which sizes actually move.MadeKeeper separates fly-shop, show and custom-tie sales
Wholesale dozens into the fly shop, weekend expo tables, and custom orders each run their own channel — so shop pricing and show pricing stop blurring together.One dozen buggers, to the penny
Say you tie a dozen #8 woolly buggers:
- 12 hooks (per-100 box @ $9.50)$1.14
- Saddle hackle ($42 saddle ÷ ~200 flies)$2.52
- Chenille, thread, and beads$2.16
Sell custom dozens at $27 and each one clears $21.18 before fees. At fly-shop wholesale the margin thins fast — and now you can see exactly where the floor is.
Tie for the fishing guides, not just the shop? The guides who put your flies in front of clients run their trips on Timber & Tackle — fishing guides by water →
Market Saturday, for fly tyers and lure makers
The bench is one half of it. MadeKeeper follows fly tyers and lure 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. Fly tyers and lure 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 fly tyers and lure makers ask
How does the pattern-by-size matrix work?
A pattern is one product; sizes are its variants, each with its own stock and sales. You'll see that #14 parachute adams fly off the table while #10s sit — and tie accordingly.
Can I price by the dozen?
Yes — sell singles at the show and dozens to the shop, and each channel's pricing and fees track separately. The per-fly cost stays the same honest number underneath both.
How do I cost a cape or saddle?
Log it at its price with roughly how many flies it ties, and the per-fly share computes itself. When the good grizzly runs out and the next one costs more, your dozens update automatically.
Ready to see your real numbers?
The app is live. $19/mo, kept for as long as you stay.