MadeKeeper is inventory and pricing software for kids clothing makers.
By the time a romper is off the serger, it has eaten a yard and a half of knit, a few snaps, and some thread. Those get written down as they go in, so the price you set has a real floor under it.
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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.
Kids' clothes & bows, specifically
Same books underneath — the numbers below are the ones that change.
Scrunchies
Scrunchies are a volume game — three yards of satin becomes thirty, the elastic comes by the hundred, and the money is made in bundles and multi-buys at a table where nobody spends long deciding. The unit math is tiny and the season totals aren't. MadeKeeper batches the pennies so the bundles price themselves.
Say you cut a batch of 30 satin scrunchies:
- 3 yds satin @ $4.60/yd$13.80
- 30 elastics (per-100 bag)$1.35
- Thread$0.40
- Hang tags$0.90
The 3-for-$12 bundle carries $1.65 of materials and clears $10.35 — so a market Saturday that moves twenty bundles made $207.00 before the table fee, and MadeKeeper subtracts that too.
One cute print becomes NB through 5T — seven sizes, each its own stock count, multiplied by every print in the shop. That's how a small boutique ends up with two hundred separate listings and a spreadsheet nobody trusts. MadeKeeper treats a size run as one design with a size matrix, so restocks and turnaround stop being archaeology.
How MadeKeeper maps to your cutting table
MadeKeeper keeps a size run as one product
A romper in a print is one design; NB–5T are its sizes. Stock, sales, and restocks track per size without you naming twenty-one separate products.MadeKeeper buys knit fabric by the yard and cuts it by the garment
Log each print's yardage at cost. Bigger sizes pull more fabric — the recipe scales, so a 5T carries more cost than a newborn, like it should.MadeKeeper breaks a hundred-pack of blanks down to one
Bows on blanks, snaps by the hundred, tags and ribbon by the roll — all logged at bulk price, all pulled down per piece, so nothing hides in the notions drawer.MadeKeeper prices a VIP drop and a wholesale order the same way
A Facebook VIP drop, an Etsy order, and a boutique wholesale run each log in their own channel — with turnaround visible because you can see what's cut, sewn, and shipped.One piece of a size run, to the penny
Say you cut a 21-piece run (7 sizes × 3) of a romper:
- 0.75 yd knit fabric (average) @ $9.25/yd$6.94
- Snaps, size tag, and care label$0.55
- Thread and elastic$0.30
At $24 each, the run grosses $504.00 on about $163.59 of materials — and MadeKeeper shows which sizes actually sell, so next run you cut fewer 12-18m and more 3T.
For children's items, MadeKeeper keeps the fabric, lot, and production-date records that CPSIA tracking labels ask about — in the app instead of a binder.
Market Saturday, for kids clothing makers
The bench is one half of it. MadeKeeper follows kids clothing 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. Kids clothing 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 kids clothing makers ask
How does MadeKeeper handle size runs?
A design is one product with a size matrix. Each size has its own count and its own sales history, so you can see that 2T sells out in a day while NB lingers — and cut accordingly.
Can I track fabric per print?
Yes. Each print logs as its own material in yards. When a run cuts into it, the yardage draws down, and you'll know there's not enough left for a restock before you promise one to the VIP group.
What records help with CPSIA paperwork?
MadeKeeper keeps what went into each run — fabric, notions, dates, quantities — organized per batch. It's the record-keeping half done for you; labeling decisions and testing stay yours.
Do I really need software for scrunchies?
For one batch, no. For a season of markets, fabric restocks, and a wall of colorways, the notebook quits before you do. The batch recipe means each new run is one tap, not more math.
How do bundles and multi-buys track?
Log the bundle as its own product built from three units. Sales draw down the right count, and the bundle's real margin sits beside the single's — so you can tune the deal instead of guessing at it.
What about seasonal fabric buys?
Each fabric logs at its purchase price, so the holiday velvet bought in July prices that season's batches correctly — and the clearance haul shows up as the better margin it truly is.
Ready to see your real numbers?
The app is live. $19/mo, kept for as long as you stay.