MadeKeeper is inventory and pricing software for sticker and card makers.
Order a bigger run and a printed sheet gets cheaper, which quietly changes what one kiss-cut sticker costs you. Keep that current and a pack still reads true after fees.
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.
Cards, stickers & paper, specifically
Same books underneath — the numbers below are the ones that change.
Calligraphy
Calligraphy is the rare craft where materials round to nothing and the price is entirely the hand: envelopes at $3.25 apiece, place cards by the dozen, a wedding's worth of names due the week the guest list finally settles. The business is per-piece pricing, spoilage allowances, and deadlines. MadeKeeper keeps all three in ink.
Say you letter 120 wedding envelopes:
- Ink, attributed to the job$4.30
- 2 nibs @ $2.20$4.40
- Envelopes: client-supplied, +15% overage$0.00
At $3.25 an envelope the job pays $390.00 — you keep $381.30, and the nine hours of lettering earned $42.37 each. That's the per-hour number that makes rush fees and minimums easy to defend.
Retail is the fun table; wholesale is the business. Cards move by the dozen on a line sheet, stickers run 200 at a time from the printer, and the margin question is always the same: what does one unit truly cost, and what does it clear at wholesale minimums? MadeKeeper answers per unit, per run, per channel.
How MadeKeeper maps to your print runs
MadeKeeper divides a print run down to one sticker
A 200-sticker die-cut run logs at the printer's invoice; each sticker knows its share. Cards, sleeves, and envelopes per-100 work the same way.MadeKeeper reports wholesale and retail separately
The $5 retail sticker and the $2.50 line-sheet price are different businesses. Channels keep them apart, so wholesale volume can't quietly masquerade as retail margin.MadeKeeper treats die-cut, kiss-cut and the club as variants
Formats are variants; the monthly sticker-club subscription is recurring revenue with its own costs — both first-class citizens in the books.MadeKeeper ranks markets, Etsy and cons by what they paid
Fair tables, Etsy orders, con weekends, and Faire wholesale each track their own sales and fees — and the event math ranks your weekends.One sticker, to the penny
Say you order a die-cut run of 200:
- Print run of 200 die-cut stickers$62.00
- Sleeve and backer, each$0.04
Retail at $5.00 clears $4.65; wholesale at $2.50 in dozens clears $2.15 a unit. Both are good businesses — as long as you know which one you're doing, and MadeKeeper keeps them from blurring.
Market Saturday, for sticker and card makers
The bench is one half of it. MadeKeeper follows sticker and card makers 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. Sticker and card makers 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 sticker and card makers ask
How do print runs get costed?
Log the printer's invoice against the run quantity, and the per-unit cost falls out. Reorders at better volume pricing update the numbers — so scaling actually shows up in your margins.
Can MadeKeeper handle wholesale minimums and line sheets?
Wholesale is its own channel with its own prices. Sell by the dozen at line-sheet rates and the books keep wholesale margin honestly separate from retail.
What about subscription sticker clubs?
Log club shipments as recurring sales with their real per-shipment costs — postage included. You'll know what each subscriber actually pays you after the envelope is sealed.
How should I price envelope jobs?
Per piece, with the count, rate, and any rush fee logged on the job. Your history builds a real rate card — outer-only versus outer-and-inner, print versus flourished — priced from hours you actually recorded.
What about client-supplied paper?
It logs at zero cost with the overage policy noted on the job. If the client shorts the overage, the paper trail says the 15% was agreed — a quiet piece of professionalism that has saved many wedding-week Fridays.
Can I sell ready-made pieces too?
Yes — lettered prints, vow keepsakes, and market pieces run as products beside the commission work. Retail keeps the desk busy between weddings, and the ledger shows what each side of the business truly pays.
Ready to see your real numbers?
The app is live. $19/mo, kept for as long as you stay.