Wax melts are the candle's sharper little sibling: no wick to test, no vessel to buy, a fragrance load that runs hotter, and a $6 clamshell that costs a dollar thirty to pour. The melt bar is often the best margin on a candle maker's table — or a whole business by itself. MadeKeeper does the clamshell math to the penny.
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Say you pour a 5-lb batch at a 10% load:
At $6 each you keep $4.69 a clamshell — a better percentage than most candles on the same table, with no wick testing and no glass to haul. The numbers explain why the melt bar keeps growing.
MadeKeeper keeps your batch and lot records — which wax, which fragrance, at what load, poured when — the records behind net-weight labeling, 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 →
No vessel and no wick — the two costs that eat a candle's price — while the fragrance load runs higher and the clamshell costs less than a tin. Your own numbers in MadeKeeper will show the exact spread for your line.
The recipe holds the percentage: five pounds of wax at 10% pulls eight ounces of oil, costed at your supplier's price. Bump the load or swap the oil and the batch cost updates itself.
Same wax shelf, same ledger, separate products — most makers run both. The channel math will tell you what the melt bar contributes to a market day, and it's usually more than its table space.
The app is live and free during the pilot. Lock the $19/mo founding rate for as long as you stay.