MadeKeeper is inventory and pricing software for lapidaries and stone carvers.
Buy a pound of rough and the fracture shows up two slabs in. Spread the rough and the saw and polish grit across the cabs that actually finished, and each one carries a number you can price from.
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.
Half your rough came off a rockhounding trip — cost basis: zero, plus a tank of gas. The real money in lapidary is what the saw and wheels eat: blades, belts, and hours. MadeKeeper tracks rough by the pound at what it truly cost you, and puts the consumables where they belong — in the price of every cab.
How MadeKeeper maps to your rock room
MadeKeeper values rough by the pound you actually paid
Bought rough logs at its price; self-collected logs at zero. Both are true — and the difference shows up as real margin on the finished cabs.MadeKeeper carries slabs as the middle stage
Rough becomes slabs becomes cabs. Track the stages so the bucket of jasper slabs on the bench counts as the work in progress it is.MadeKeeper wears blades and wheels down as consumables
The trim saw blade and the cabbing wheels wear down with every stone. Log wear per cab and your "free rock" pieces stop looking like pure profit.MadeKeeper prices the tumbler bin apart from show stock
Gem-show tables, Etsy cab sales, and the $5 tumble bin each run their own channel. The event math tells you which shows are worth hauling flats of rock to.One cab, to the penny
Say you cut a cab from self-collected jasper:
- Rough (rockhounded)$0.00
- Blade and wheel wear$1.60
- Dop wax and finishing$0.15
Sell it at $28 and you kept $26.25 — but the mileage to the collecting site logs as the deductible trip it was, so "free" rock gets counted like a business expense, not a hobby afternoon.
MadeKeeper keeps notes on where rough came from alongside your purchase records — handy paperwork when collecting rules differ by land and site; knowing the rules for each spot stays your department.
Market Saturday, for lapidaries and stone carvers
The bench is one half of it. MadeKeeper follows lapidaries and stone carvers 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. Lapidaries and stone carvers 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 lapidaries and stone carvers ask
How do I cost self-collected rough?
Log it at zero cost basis and log the trip's mileage as the expense it was. Your cabs show honest margin, and the collecting trips show up in your year-end numbers instead of vanishing.
Can I track rough through slabbing to cabs?
Yes — rough, slab, and finished cab are stages. A pound of rough that becomes six slabs and eleven cabs keeps its cost trail the whole way down.
What about saw blades and wheel wear?
Log blades and wheels as consumables with a per-piece wear share. It's small money per cab and real money per year — exactly the kind of cost the shoebox never catches.
Ready to see your real numbers?
The app is live. $19/mo, kept for as long as you stay.