A t-shirt quilt is a commission business: the customer hands you thirty shirts and a shoebox of feelings, and you supply everything that makes it a quilt — interfacing on every knit block, backing, batting, binding, and the hours. The shirts cost you nothing; the quilt costs plenty. MadeKeeper keeps both facts straight, deposit to delivery.
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 take a 30-shirt queen commission:
At a $425 commission with $150 down, you keep $324.85 before your hours — and the eighteen hours it took paid $18.05 each. Quote from that number in April, when the graduation calls start.
If you make baby quilts, MadeKeeper keeps the materials and batch records that CPSIA paperwork asks about — in the app instead of a binder.
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 →
They log as client property on the job — counted, dated, zero cost. If a customer ever asks in October about shirts dropped off in June, the answer is in the app, not in a pile you have to go count.
Log the deposit when the shirts arrive and the balance stays attached to the commission. Your books show real money in, real balance due — and quilts don't leave until the ledger says paid.
Cost a lap, a twin, and a queen honestly for a season — the materials scale, but the hours scale harder. Most t-shirt quilters find the small quilts pay worse per hour than they look; the numbers will show you yours.
The app is live and free during the pilot. Lock the $19/mo founding rate for as long as you stay.