Keychains and bag charms are the front row of the con table — forty minutes of crochet each, a keyring from the bag of a hundred, and a price point people don't have to think about. The business is volume: batches of twenty, restocked weekly, sold by the bowl. MadeKeeper batches the math so the little stuff gets counted like it sells.
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 hook a batch of 20 bag charms:
At $12 each, a charm clears $11.58 — and at thirty-five minutes of hooking apiece, that's about $19.85 an hour, which quietly beats most of the big plushies on the table. The bowl knew.
If your amis could end up with small children, MadeKeeper keeps the materials and batch records that CPSIA paperwork asks about — so "not a toy" labeling decisions come with records behind them.
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 bowl is where the math matters most — you sell fifty of these for every big plush. A season of charm batches is real money, and MadeKeeper adds it up while you keep hooking.
Set the recipe once. After that, a new batch is one entry — twenty more charms on the books, materials drawn down, restock warning when the keyring bag runs low.
Only if the materials differ — a lobster-clasp charm and a keyring charm can be variants of one design. Their sales track separately, so you learn which hardware the buyers actually grab.
The app is live and free during the pilot. Lock the $19/mo founding rate for as long as you stay.