You buy lumber in board feet — 4/4 here, 8/4 there — at prices that swing five-fold by species, then lose a fifth of it to kerf, checks, and cutoffs. If your cost-per-piece doesn't know about the waste, it isn't your cost. MadeKeeper prices from the board you bought, not the blank that survived.
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 glue up a walnut serving board:
Sell it at $145 and you kept $94.47 before fees. Multiply by a fair-day table of twelve boards and the booth fee math finally has something honest to work with.
If you sell cutting boards and food-contact pieces, MadeKeeper keeps your finish and materials records per piece — so what went on each board is written down, in the app instead of a shop notebook.
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 →
Lumber logs in board feet at what you paid, per species and thickness. Recipes pull board feet with a waste factor you set, so the price of each piece reflects the whole board, kerf and cutoffs included.
Yes — a slab can log as a single piece at its own price, then be consumed by the project it becomes. One-of-a-kind pieces can carry a one-off cost basis instead of a recipe.
Log offcut-based pieces with a zero or salvage-rate material cost — your call. Either way the sales land on the books, and you find out whether the bottle-opener bin actually earns its bench time.
The app is live and free during the pilot. Lock the $19/mo founding rate for as long as you stay.