A watercolor table is two businesses sharing a tent: originals on the wall at original prices, and the browse bin of matted prints doing steady volume underneath. Cotton paper by the block, mats and cello sleeves by the fifty, and a scan that turns one painting into an open edition. MadeKeeper keeps both sides of the table on one ledger.
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Say you paint a 9×12 botanical:
The original sells at $85 and keeps $77.55 — and the scan becomes an open-edition print that clears $20-something every weekend after. One painting, two incomes, both on the books.
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 →
No — attribute a fair per-piece paint cost and move on. The real money is paper, mats, and lab prints, and those log at their receipts. The point is an honest basis, not laboratory accounting.
The original is one product; its prints are another, with per-size lab and mat costs. Sales track separately, so you'll know when a painting has earned more in prints than it did on the wall — a genuinely useful thing to know before pricing the next original.
A commissioned piece logs with its deposit, its materials, and its hours — house portraits and wedding-bouquet paintings run deposit-to-delivery in the app, not in a text thread.
The app is live and free during the pilot. Lock the $19/mo founding rate for as long as you stay.