For amigurumi makers

Price your amis like the hours count.

Your materials are chenille skeins, safety eyes by the pair and millimeter, and fiberfill by the bag — cheap enough that pricing by materials is a trap. An ami is hours of magic rings and invisible decreases, and the con table doesn't care that the yarn was $4. MadeKeeper puts your time on the price tag where it belongs.

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.

How MadeKeeper maps to your hook and hoard

Yarn, eyes, and fill as real inventoryChenille by the skein, 9 mm safety eyes by the pair from the bag of 100, fiberfill by weight. Each ami's recipe pulls its share down, so restock day is a number, not a guess.
Per-pattern recipesYour shop octopus and your jumbo bee use different yarn and different hours. Set a recipe per pattern and every finished ami knows its cost the moment you weave in the last end.
Con prep and count-backLoad 60 amis to the con, come home with 14 — that's 46 sold, and MadeKeeper's event math turns the table fee, the badge, the hotel, and the miles into a profit-per-hour verdict for that con.
Custom slots without the chaosOpen five custom slots, log each as a commission with its own deposit and materials, and see which customs actually pay better than restocking the shop.

One plushie, to the penny

Say you finish a medium octopus:

  • 0.7 skein of chenille @ $4.99$3.49
  • 1 pair 9 mm safety eyes (from a 100-pair bag)$0.08
  • 40 g fiberfill$0.28
Materials in the ami$3.85

At a $38 con price, five hours of crochet paid $6.83 an hour. Now you know exactly what raising to $45 does — and what the answer to "can you do it for $20?" costs you.

If your amis could end up with small children, MadeKeeper keeps the materials and batch records that CPSIA paperwork asks about — so "not a toy" labeling decisions come with records behind them.

Straight about what's live

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 →

Questions amigurumi makers ask

Safety eyes come in bags of 100 pairs. How does that work?

Log the bag at its price and the per-pair cost computes itself — 8¢ a pair on an $8 bag. Each ami's recipe pulls pairs, and you'll see the bin running low before restock week.

Can MadeKeeper handle con weekends?

Yes. An event gets its table fee, travel, lodging, and hours; your load-out list and end-of-day count-back give it the sales. The verdict — go back or skip it — comes out in profit per hour.

How should I price customs versus restocks?

Log both honestly for a month and compare profit per hour. Customs usually win on price and lose on hours; MadeKeeper shows you which side of that trade your queue is actually on.

Ready to see your real numbers?

The app is live and free during the pilot. Lock the $19/mo founding rate for as long as you stay.

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