Your inventory multiplies, swarms, and sometimes dies — hives are assets, not stock. The honey comes once or twice a year in extraction pulls of unpredictable size, and the year's feed, treatments, and foundation have to ride on whatever the bees gave you. MadeKeeper spreads the real costs across the real harvest.
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 the year's inputs were $180 across a 300-lb harvest:
At $12 a jar you keep $10.39 before fees — and in a light year, when 300 lb becomes 180, the same math shows you exactly what the drought did to your margin.
MadeKeeper keeps your extraction and bottling records — pull dates, weights, lots — and honey labels carry weight in both ounces and grams; your state's small-producer rules stay yours to check.
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 →
The year's real spending — feed, treatments, foundation, replacements — spreads across the pounds you actually pulled. Big year, low cost per pound; hard year, the truth. Both are worth knowing.
Yes — each extraction logs its own weight and date, and a spring wildflower pull bottles separately from the fall dark. Varietals keep their own prices and stock.
Cappings wax logs back in at salvage value and flows into candle recipes like any material — so the wax side of the business gets books too.
The app is live and free during the pilot. Lock the $19/mo founding rate for as long as you stay.