MadeKeeper is inventory and pricing software for printmakers.
Forty dollars of paper and one plate divide across an edition of twenty, and the cost per pull falls out on its own — so the number beside the print isn't a guess you make on market morning.
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.
An edition of 50 is a promise — each pull numbered, artist proofs on the side, and no more when it's done. Your costs are paper by the sheet, ink, and the block or screen that took a week to carve and belongs to the whole run. MadeKeeper tracks the edition as an edition: how many pulled, how many sold, what each print really costs.
How MadeKeeper maps to your press
MadeKeeper numbers an edition as real inventory
x/50 plus APs, tracked as the run sells down. You always know how many remain — and so does your integrity when a collector asks.MadeKeeper spreads the block's cost across the run
The carved block or burned screen cost real hours and money. Amortize it across the edition and each pull carries its fair share.MadeKeeper counts paper by the sheet and ink by the tube
Good paper is the material cost that matters — log it by the sheet, and misprints ride a waste factor like they ride the recycling bin.MadeKeeper prices open editions and wholesale off one cost
Giclée open editions, wholesale to shops, art-fair browsers flipping the flat file — each channel tracks its own pricing and fees.One edition, to the penny
Say you pull a linocut edition of 50:
- 50 sheets of printmaking paper @ $1.85$92.50
- Ink$6.20
- Block, amortized across the edition$14.00
At $40 a print, the full edition grosses $2,000.00 on $112.70 of materials — the economics that make editions worth the carving week, visible at last.
Market Saturday, for printmakers
The bench is one half of it. MadeKeeper follows printmakers 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. Printmakers 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 printmakers ask
How does edition tracking work?
An edition logs with its size and AP count; each sale draws down the run. You'll always know it's 31 of 50 sold — and the flat file count matches the ledger.
How should I cost the block or screen?
Log it as tooling amortized across the edition — a $14 share per 50-print run, or however your numbers fall. Reprints of an open edition just keep spreading it thinner.
Can I track both limited and open editions?
Yes. Limited editions close at their number; open editions run on. Each keeps its own costs, prices, and sales history.
Ready to see your real numbers?
The app is live. $19/mo, kept for as long as you stay.