You already do the maker math — wax by the pound, an 8% fragrance load, wicks from the bag of 100, vessels by the case. What usually goes missing is the money math: what one candle truly costs, with the burn-test jars and the two-week cure counted. MadeKeeper finishes the equation your batch notes started.
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 pour a 10-lb batch of 8-oz tins at 8% fragrance load:
At $18 a tin, each candle clears $14.68 before fees — and the batch's lot number follows every tin, so a wick issue later traces back to one pour, not a season of guessing.
MadeKeeper keeps your batch and lot records — which wax, which wick, which fragrance, poured when — the records behind ASTM warning labels and 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 →
Your batch recipe carries the load percentage — 10 lb of wax at 8% pulls 12.8 oz of fragrance oil, costed at your supplier's price. Change the load or the oil and the batch cost updates.
Poured candles count as made but not sellable until their cure date. Your sellable stock is what's actually ready — so a big market weekend gets planned around the rack, not around wishful counting.
Yes — testing consumes stock at cost without a sale, logged as what it is. When you tally a fragrance line's real profitability, the development jars are in the math.
The app is live and free during the pilot. Lock the $19/mo founding rate for as long as you stay.