Pet portraits are commission work almost by definition: a reference photo arrives with a deposit, joins a queue that runs weeks deep, and leaves as the most emotionally loaded purchase on your table. The craft is paint; the business is the queue. MadeKeeper tracks both — deposits, due dates, materials, and what each portrait truly paid per hour.
The app is live. Free during the pilot. Founding rate $19/mo, locked for life.
No card to start. Use it free through the pilot, and lock the $19/mo founding rate for as long as you stay.
Say you paint an 8×10 commission:
At $140 with $50 down, you keep $126.75 before hours — six hours of painting at $21.13 each. When the queue hits five weeks, that number is your case for $175, made for you in advance.
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 →
A commission books with its deposit and joins the queue with a due date. The balance collects at delivery, and the ledger always knows what's promised, what's paid, and what's owed — even when the waitlist is long.
The job sits in the queue with its deposit logged and its history attached — nothing lost, nothing forgotten. Your deposit policy is yours; the records that make it fair are automatic.
A standing queue is the market voting yes. Your profit-per-hour history says how much room you have — most portrait artists find the answer is more than they'd have guessed from guilt alone.
The app is live and free during the pilot. Lock the $19/mo founding rate for as long as you stay.