You buy undyed bases by the bag, dyes by the gram, and sell by colorway — where every kettle day mints a new dye lot and every shop update sells out (or doesn't) in its own way. MadeKeeper tracks base × colorway × lot without the spreadsheet gymnastics, and prices your skeins from what they actually cost to dye.
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 dye a 20-skein lot of a new colorway:
At $26 a skein in the shop update, each one clears $18.93 before fees — and when a colorway flops, you know exactly what the lesson cost.
MadeKeeper keeps the fiber-content and lot records that yarn labeling 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 →
Yes — that's the point. Each dye day creates a lot with its own count and cost, so when a customer needs a second skein from the same bath, you know if one exists and which bin it's in.
Log the dyes used on the lot in grams, at whatever mix the colorway took. The total spreads across the skeins in that lot, so a dye-heavy speckle costs more than a gentle tonal — as it should.
Load-out and count-back: log what you brought, count what came home, and the difference is your sales. The event report subtracts the booth fee, the miles, and the weekend to a plain was-it-worth-it verdict.
The app is live and free during the pilot. Lock the $19/mo founding rate for as long as you stay.