Calligraphy is the rare craft where materials round to nothing and the price is entirely the hand: envelopes at $3.25 apiece, place cards by the dozen, a wedding's worth of names due the week the guest list finally settles. The business is per-piece pricing, spoilage allowances, and deadlines. MadeKeeper keeps all three in ink.
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 letter 120 wedding envelopes:
At $3.25 an envelope the job pays $390.00 — you keep $381.30, and the nine hours of lettering earned $42.37 each. That's the per-hour number that makes rush fees and minimums easy to defend.
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 →
Per piece, with the count, rate, and any rush fee logged on the job. Your history builds a real rate card — outer-only versus outer-and-inner, print versus flourished — priced from hours you actually recorded.
It logs at zero cost with the overage policy noted on the job. If the client shorts the overage, the paper trail says the 15% was agreed — a quiet piece of professionalism that has saved many wedding-week Fridays.
Yes — lettered prints, vow keepsakes, and market pieces run as products beside the commission work. Retail keeps the desk busy between weddings, and the ledger shows what each side of the business truly pays.
The app is live and free during the pilot. Lock the $19/mo founding rate for as long as you stay.