The maker's back office

Keep what you make.

You make the work. This keeps the books — and the money.

Inventory and true cost per piece. Log every sale and watch your stock and materials tick down. See whether a fair actually paid you for your Saturday. And hand your tax guy a clean year-end packet instead of a shoebox. Built for people who sell at markets and on Etsy — not for warehouses.

The app is live. Free during the pilot. Founding rate $19/mo, locked for life.

Start free — the app is live Try the free fair calculator

No card to start. Use it free through the pilot, and lock the $19/mo founding rate for as long as you stay.

See the actual app

Not mockups. These are real screens from the pilot, running right now. Click through the tabs.

MadeKeeper dashboard showing this month's revenue of $310, true profit of $278.35, a 90% margin, 6 units sold, and the best- and worst-earning pieces.
Your month, on one screen. Revenue, true profit after materials and fees, your margin, and which piece is actually carrying you.
MadeKeeper products list showing a Speckled mug priced at $38 with $3.45 cost of goods and 10 on hand.
Every piece knows its own cost. Set a recipe once and each mug, print, or bar of soap carries its real materials cost — so you price from numbers, not a gut feeling.
MadeKeeper materials inventory tracking glaze at $0.35 per ounce and stoneware clay at $1.20 per pound, with quantities on hand.
What your work is made of. Log what you buy and watch it tick down as you make and sell, so you reorder before you run out mid-batch.
MadeKeeper event breakdown for a makers market subtracting booth fee, mileage, materials, and card fees to show $19.41 profit per hour and a verdict to negotiate the fee.
Was that fair worth your Saturday? The app subtracts booth fee, miles, and hours down to profit per hour, then gives you a straight answer — go back, or skip it next year.
MadeKeeper year-end tax packet listing gross revenue, cost of goods, card fees, booth fees, deductible expenses, and mileage with an estimated net profit and a CSV export button.
The packet you hand your tax guy. Revenue, cost of goods, fees, mileage, and expenses — all totaled, all exportable as a clean CSV. Done in February, not April.

Everything a maker needs, in one place

We're not trying to out-feature the enterprise tools. We're giving the person at the kitchen table every single thing they need to run a real little business — and nothing they don't. Here's the whole thing, split honestly between what you can use today and what we're building next.

Live now — use it today

Live now
Materials & true cost per pieceAuto cost-of-goods from your own recipe, so every piece carries its real cost the moment you make it.
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Products, your wayList them in bulk, or show a one-of-a-kind piece in portfolio mode — inventory and showcase in the same place.
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Log a sale, watch stock dropRecord what sold and the materials tick down while the money ticks up — no double entry.
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Was this fair worth it?Per-event profit-per-hour that ranks your markets, so you spend Saturdays where they actually pay.
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Mileage, expenses & the year-end packetEvery deduction captured and exported in Schedule-C-friendly columns for your tax preparer.
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The free fair-profit calculatorA live tool you can use this minute — no signup, no card. Open it →

Coming in the pilot — what we're building next

Building
A card reader for the boothTake a tap-to-pay card right at your table and have it land on your books automatically.
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Your own storefrontSell online under your own name, not just inside someone else's marketplace.
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Etsy and Square in one dashboardYour booth sales and your online orders adding up in a single place, synced for you.
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Shipping labels at real ratesBuy and print the label where the order already lives, with the postage cost logged for you.
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Email your past buyersYour customer list is yours — reach the people who already love your work, on your terms.
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AI that does the data entrySnap a receipt and the materials log themselves. Photo a piece and a draft listing writes itself.
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Commissions on your portfolioLet someone request a custom piece straight from a one-of-a-kind you've already sold.

This is what we're building with our founding makers. If a piece of it is what would actually move the needle for you, that's the one we build sooner — the roadmap answers to the people in the pilot, not a boardroom. See the full feature list →

Free today, right now

The first piece of MadeKeeper is already live and it costs nothing: a calculator that answers whether a fair actually paid you for your Saturday. Booth fee, miles, your hours, materials, real profit per hour, and a straight verdict. Save your events and stack this year's markets against each other.

Open the fair profit calculator →

For every kind of maker

If you make a thing and sell it at a market or online, this was built with you in mind — the materials, the channels, and the numbers all bend to what you make.

QuiltersWoodworkersCandlemakersPotters Soap makersJewelryResin & epoxyLeatherwork Honey & jamProduce standsPrintmakersFiber & knitwear Bath & bodyCeramicsBaked goods…and whatever you make

Why we're building this

On July 1, Craftybase — the tool a lot of makers ran their whole back office on — finished rebranding into Stocksmith, aimed now at businesses with six figures in revenue and staff in the workshop. Their own pricing ladder starts at $49 a month. Good software, real customer, fair enough. But it leaves behind the person it was first built for: the one making things at a kitchen table and selling Saturday mornings at a booth.

So I built MadeKeeper for exactly that person, and the app is live today — go use it free. I'll be straight with you: it's early, and there are zero customers, so you won't find a single testimonial on this page. What you'll find is the actual product and an honest line between what works now and what's coming. Founding members lock in $19 a month for as long as they stay, and they get a real say in what gets built first.

If that trade works for you — honesty now, and a product you can already touch — come kick the tires. I read every note that comes in.

— James, builder of MadeKeeper

The founding pilot

Start now, free. The app is live in an open pilot — sign in and use it free, no card. When the public price goes up, your founding rate stays put.

The founding rate: $19/mo for as long as you keep the subscription, first say in what gets built next, and a direct line to the person building it.

Not ready to dive in? Leave your email and I'll lock your $19/mo rate and tell you when the next pieces land. Tell me what you make — it decides which integrations and materials templates come first.