MadeKeeper is inventory and pricing software for vintage resellers and upcyclers.
A sourced lot of twelve isn't twelve equal pieces. Split the haul, add the cleaning and the repair, and every flip carries a cost basis you can stand behind when it sells.
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.
You don't buy materials — you buy hauls. An $85 estate-sale lot becomes fourteen items, each needing its own cost basis before you can know what any flip made. Add booth rent, the antique mall's percentage, and the upcycle parts, and "I did well this month" deserves better evidence. MadeKeeper splits the haul and keeps the score.
How MadeKeeper maps to your booth
MadeKeeper splits a haul into items at what you paid
Log the lot at what you paid and split it across the items inside — evenly or by judgment. Every piece gets an honest basis, so every flip has a real margin.MadeKeeper adds your upcycle cost to the piece
The rewire kit, the paint, the new shade — restoration parts log against the item they went into, so the finished lamp's basis is the whole truth.MadeKeeper subtracts booth rent and the mall's cut
Monthly booth rent and the mall's percentage are your channel costs. MadeKeeper counts them against booth sales, so the booth answers the same question as a fair: is it worth it?MadeKeeper claims the pick as a business trip
Estate-sale mileage and sourcing-day expenses log as the deductions they are. The Saturday spent picking counts, even when the truck comes home light.One flip, to the penny
Say an $85 estate lot splits into 14 items:
- Per-item basis ($85 ÷ 14)$6.07
- Rewire kit for the lamp$11.40
It sells for $65 at the booth; the mall takes 10% ($6.50), leaving $41.03 on the flip — before its share of the month's booth rent, which MadeKeeper also counts. That's the whole truth of the lamp.
MadeKeeper keeps your purchase records per haul — where it came from, what you paid — the paperwork a resale certificate expects; on pre-1978 painted pieces, what's safe to sell as-is stays your judgment call.
Market Saturday, for vintage resellers and upcyclers
The bench is one half of it. MadeKeeper follows vintage resellers and upcyclers 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. Vintage resellers and upcyclers 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 vintage resellers and upcyclers ask
How does haul splitting work?
Log the lot at its price and divide it across the items — evenly, or weighted toward the good pieces. Each item carries its basis from then on, through restoration to sale.
Can it track my antique-mall booth?
Yes — booth rent and the mall's percentage log as channel costs against booth sales. Month by month, you'll see whether the booth out-earns the online listings and the market table.
What about items that never sell?
Dead stock is part of flipping. Mark-downs and donations log honestly, so your real hit rate — not just your wins — shapes what you pay at the next sale.
Ready to see your real numbers?
The app is live. $19/mo, kept for as long as you stay.