You buy hides by the square foot — a side of 8-9 oz veg-tan, a shoulder of bridle — and lose a third of every hide to necks, brands, and scars before a single wallet gets cut. If your cost per piece doesn't know about the waste, your prices are subsidizing the scrap bin. MadeKeeper does the hide math for you.
The app is live. Free during the pilot. Founding rate $19/mo, locked for life.
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Say you cut a bifold from a veg-tan side:
At $70, you kept $58.24 before fees — and now the sticker price of the next side, good or brutal, flows straight into what every wallet after it must earn.
If you work exotic skins, MadeKeeper keeps the purchase and provenance records that CITES paperwork asks about — in the app instead of a folder of receipts.
Materials and true cost per piece, products (in bulk or one-of-a-kind), sales that drain stock, the was-this-fair-worth-it event math, mileage, expenses, and the year-end tax packet — all in the app today. Etsy and Square sync, your own storefront, a booth card reader, and shipping labels are building, shaped with founding makers. Nothing above describes a feature that doesn't exist without saying so. See the full live-vs-building list →
You set a usable-yield percentage per hide, and the effective cost per square foot rises to cover the waste. A $9.50/sq ft side at 70% yield really costs $13.57 per usable foot — and now your wallets know it.
Yes — every side, shoulder, and panel logs as its own material with its own weight, temper, and price. Recipes pull from the specific hide, so bridle goods and veg-tan goods cost out separately.
A custom piece logs as a commission with its own materials and hours — including the extra tooling time. You'll see whether customs out-earn your standard line per hour, or just feel like they do.
The app is live and free during the pilot. Lock the $19/mo founding rate for as long as you stay.