MadeKeeper is inventory and pricing software for glassblowers and lampworkers.
Not everything survives the annealer. Rod, frit and gas go behind a night at the torch, and only the pieces that come out whole in the morning carry what the whole run cost.
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.
Boro rod by the pound, COE-matched so nothing cracks, frit by the ounce — and underneath all of it, propane and oxygen burning by the torch hour. In glass, fuel routinely outcosts the glass itself, and pricing that ignores the tank bill is a slow leak. MadeKeeper puts the flame on the books.
How MadeKeeper maps to your torch bench
MadeKeeper weighs rod and tubing by the pound and the COE
Boro and soft glass log separately — mixing COE is a crack you only make once. Each piece pulls its rod weight from the right shelf.MadeKeeper meters torch time as a consumable
Set your fuel cost per torch hour and every piece carries its flame time. The gather that took ninety minutes stops pricing like the one that took twenty.MadeKeeper spreads an anneal across the pieces in the kiln
A kiln run spreads its cost across the batch inside it — so annealing is a line item, not a mystery utility bill.MadeKeeper compares a show, a gallery and a con side by side
Weekend glass shows, gallery consignment, and con tables each track their own sales and fees, with the event math ranking which ones pay for the travel.One pendant, to the penny
Say you work a boro pendant:
- 0.4 lb of boro rod @ $16.50/lb$6.60
- 1.5 torch hours @ $3.80/hr (propane + oxygen)$5.70
- Frit$0.90
- Share of the annealing cycle$1.25
At $58 you kept $43.55 before fees. Notice the fuel and kiln were more than the glass — that's the number most torch pricing never sees.
Market Saturday, for glassblowers and lampworkers
The bench is one half of it. MadeKeeper follows glassblowers and lampworkers 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. Glassblowers and lampworkers 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 glassblowers and lampworkers ask
How do I cost torch fuel?
Work out what an hour of your torch costs in propane and oxygen — MadeKeeper logs it as a per-hour consumable each piece pulls. When tank prices move, update once and every future piece reprices.
Can I track annealing costs?
Yes — a kiln cycle logs at its cost and spreads across the pieces in the batch. Small pieces in a full kiln cost pennies; one big piece alone carries the whole run.
Does MadeKeeper separate boro from soft glass?
Every rod and tube logs as its own material with its own COE and price, so your inventory mirrors your bench — and your costs pull from the glass you actually used.
Ready to see your real numbers?
The app is live. $19/mo, kept for as long as you stay.