For permanent jewelry artists

Chain by the inch, welds by the Saturday.

Permanent jewelry is a by-the-inch business run out of a rolling kit: spools of gold-filled and sterling chain, a pulse-arc welder, and pop-up days where fourteen wrists in four hours is a good afternoon. Your inventory is inches; your P&L is the event. MadeKeeper tracks both the spool and the Saturday.

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How MadeKeeper maps to your welding cart

Chain by the inch, per styleEach chain — gold-filled paperclip, sterling satellite — logs by the foot at cost and sells by the wrist. Every weld pulls its inches, so the spool count stays true.

The pop-up is the P&LBooth fee, travel, and four hours against the day's welds — the event report says what the salon pop-up actually paid, and whether the winery gig beat it.

Charms as the upsell lineCharms bought per-piece and sold-on at their own price track separately, so the add-on revenue that carries slow days is visible instead of vibes.

The welder earns across the yearThe pulse-arc welder is an expense, not a mystery — logged once, visible at tax time, and quietly divided across every wrist you close.

One pop-up day, to the penny

Say a Saturday pop-up closes 14 bracelets:

98 inches of gold-filled chain @ 58¢/inch$56.84
Jump rings and electrode wear$3.30
5 charms sold-on @ $2.40 cost$12.00

Materials for the day$72.14

Fourteen bracelets averaging $52 plus five charms at $10 grossed $778.00 — you keep $705.86 before the venue's cut. That's the number to hold against a $150 pop-up fee when the next venue calls.

Gold-filled, sterling, and solid are legally distinct claims — MadeKeeper keeps your purchase records per spool, so what you call a chain matches paperwork from your supplier; the marking rules themselves stay yours to check.

Straight about what's live

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 →

Questions permanent jewelry artists ask

How do I track chain across different styles?

Each spool logs as its own material by the inch at its real cost — the $58-a-foot solid gold and the gold-filled paperclip never blur. A weld pulls inches from the spool it used, plus your standard jump ring.

What does a pop-up really cost to work?

Fee, miles, and your hours — logged per event against the day's welds. After a season, the report ranks your venues, and the farmers market that outsells the boutique stops being a hunch.

How should I price against the chain cost?

Most artists price per style with a per-inch mental model; MadeKeeper gives you the real per-inch number including findings and electrode wear, so the anklet premium and the solid-gold tier both stand on arithmetic.

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