For sourdough bakers

The levain works for free. Nothing else does.

A sourdough micro-bakery runs on bake days: levain built the night before, eight loaves through the oven by morning, a porch-pickup list and a market table waiting. Flour is cheap, the oven runs hours, and the bread sells the day it's baked or not at all. MadeKeeper prices the bake day to the loaf and tells you what Saturday actually paid.

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How MadeKeeper maps to your bake day

Flour by the pound, bought by the bagBread flour by the 50-lb bag logs at its real per-pound cost; each bake day pulls what it fed — the dough and the starter both.

The bake day is the batchEight loaves through the oven is one entry: flour, salt, bags, oven time, divided to the loaf. Add-ins like cheese and jalapeño ride their own recipe lines.

Porch pickups and market morningsThe Thursday pickup list and the Saturday market are different channels with the same oven behind them. Each keeps its own sales, so you know which one deserves the extra bake.

Sold out is a numberBread doesn't carry over. Bake 8, sell 7, gift the eighth — the day's true yield logs in minutes, and the season tells you when to scale to twelve.

One bake day, to the penny

Say you bake 8 country loaves:

9 lb bread flour @ 62¢/lb (dough + starter feeds)$5.58
Salt and rice flour for the bannetons$0.60
8 bread bags @ 22¢$1.76
Oven, 3 hours$1.35
8 labels @ 8¢$0.64

Bake-day cost — $1.24 a loaf$9.93

At $9 a loaf you keep $7.76 each — the bake day grosses $72.00 on under ten dollars of ingredients, and the real cost was the five hours. MadeKeeper divides those in too, which is where your price per loaf finds its spine.

Home-baked bread is squarely a cottage food product in most states — MadeKeeper keeps the batch records, dates, and label information cottage paperwork asks about, in the app instead of a recipe card; your state's allowed list and caps stay yours to check.

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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 →

Questions sourdough bakers ask

How do I cost a loaf when the starter is free?

The starter's flour isn't — the daily feeds log with the bake day's flour, so the levain's appetite is in the loaf price. The wild yeast itself remains, as ever, unpaid labor.

What about special loaves and add-ins?

Cheese-jalapeño, cinnamon-raisin, chocolate — each variant carries its add-in costs on its own recipe line, so the $12 specialty loaf earns its two extra dollars on paper, not just on smell.

Can it handle a porch-pickup subscription?

Yes — standing weekly orders run as their own channel with recurring sales against each bake day. You'll see whether the pickup list or the market morning is really carrying the oven.

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