Half your rough came off a rockhounding trip — cost basis: zero, plus a tank of gas. The real money in lapidary is what the saw and wheels eat: blades, belts, and hours. MadeKeeper tracks rough by the pound at what it truly cost you, and puts the consumables where they belong — in the price of every cab.
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 cut a cab from self-collected jasper:
Sell it at $28 and you kept $26.25 — but the mileage to the collecting site logs as the deductible trip it was, so "free" rock gets counted like a business expense, not a hobby afternoon.
MadeKeeper keeps notes on where rough came from alongside your purchase records — handy paperwork when collecting rules differ by land and site; knowing the rules for each spot stays your department.
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 →
Log it at zero cost basis and log the trip's mileage as the expense it was. Your cabs show honest margin, and the collecting trips show up in your year-end numbers instead of vanishing.
Yes — rough, slab, and finished cab are stages. A pound of rough that becomes six slabs and eleven cabs keeps its cost trail the whole way down.
Log blades and wheels as consumables with a per-piece wear share. It's small money per cab and real money per year — exactly the kind of cost the shoebox never catches.
The app is live and free during the pilot. Lock the $19/mo founding rate for as long as you stay.