For leatherworkers

You buy sides. You sell wallets.

You buy hides by the square foot — a side of 8-9 oz veg-tan, a shoulder of bridle — and lose a third of every hide to necks, brands, and scars before a single wallet gets cut. If your cost per piece doesn't know about the waste, your prices are subsidizing the scrap bin. MadeKeeper does the hide math for you.

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 cutting bench

Sides by square foot and ounce weightA 22 sq ft side of 8-9 oz veg-tan and a 2-3 oz garment shoulder are different materials at different prices. Log each hide as bought and cut pieces pull square footage down.
Waste built into the yieldSet a usable-yield factor per hide — 70%, 75%, what your cutting actually runs — and every piece's cost covers the unusable neck and belly, not just the clean bend.
Hardware per-100, thread by the spoolSnaps, rivets, buckles, and Chicago screws bought in bags of 100 cost pennies each — until they don't get counted. Every piece's recipe pulls its hardware at true cost.
Tooling and burnishing are your laborThe hours of tooling, stitching, and edge burnishing are the product. Profit-per-hour on every sale keeps your prices anchored to your bench time, not the leather bill.

One bifold wallet, to the penny

Say you cut a bifold from a veg-tan side:

  • 22 sq ft side @ $9.50/sq ft, 70% usable yield → $13.57/usable sq ft$209.00 the side
  • 0.8 sq ft in the wallet @ $13.57$10.86
  • Thread and edge paint$0.35
  • Snap set$0.55
True cost of the wallet$11.76

At $70, you kept $58.24 before fees — and now the sticker price of the next side, good or brutal, flows straight into what every wallet after it must earn.

If you work exotic skins, MadeKeeper keeps the purchase and provenance records that CITES paperwork asks about — in the app instead of a folder of receipts.

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 leatherworkers ask

How does MadeKeeper handle hide waste?

You set a usable-yield percentage per hide, and the effective cost per square foot rises to cover the waste. A $9.50/sq ft side at 70% yield really costs $13.57 per usable foot — and now your wallets know it.

Can I track different leathers separately?

Yes — every side, shoulder, and panel logs as its own material with its own weight, temper, and price. Recipes pull from the specific hide, so bridle goods and veg-tan goods cost out separately.

What about custom orders and stamping?

A custom piece logs as a commission with its own materials and hours — including the extra tooling time. You'll see whether customs out-earn your standard line per hour, or just feel like they do.

Ready to see your real numbers?

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