Horseshoe art starts with a bucket of farrier cast-offs at fifty cents a shoe — and everything after that is your labor: wire-wheeling rust, welding hearts and crosses square, and the clear coat that makes barn steel giftable. The material bill flatters you; the consumables and hours are the business. MadeKeeper counts what the bucket doesn't show.
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Say you weld a batch of 10 horseshoe hearts:
At $25 each you keep $22.28 a heart before fees — and the batch's real cost says the $45 double-heart with the name plate isn't a stretch, it's underpriced.
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 — and that's the useful part. The shoes may be nearly free, but wire, gas, discs, and clear coat run a few dollars a piece before your hours. MadeKeeper shows the real floor under your prices, which is higher than the bucket suggests.
A personalized piece logs as a commission — shoes, added steel for the name, and the extra hours. You'll see whether customs out-earn the ready-made hearts, or just take longer.
Each design gets its own recipe — more shoes, more weld time, more coat. Cost them separately and the table learns which sizes actually carry the booth fee.
The app is live and free during the pilot. Lock the $19/mo founding rate for as long as you stay.