For polymer clay artists

One bake, twenty-four pairs, honest pennies.

Polymer clay runs in bakes: condition three blocks, roll slabs, cut a collection, cure the tray, then sand, drill, and assemble two dozen pairs with posts from the bag of a hundred. The material pennies are small and the drops sell out by colorway. MadeKeeper batches the bake math so restocks and release nights start from real numbers.

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How MadeKeeper maps to your slab roller

Clay by the blockEach brand and color logs by the block at cost; a bake's recipe pulls the blocks it conditioned. The scrap slab that becomes tomorrow's marble pair stays on the books.

Posts, backs, and jump rings per-100Titanium posts and rubber backs bought by the hundred are pennies a pair — pulled per bake, restock-warned before the release-night panic.

Collections as colorway dropsA spring drop of six designs in three colorways tracks per design, per colorway — so you learn the terracotta sells out first every single time, and cut accordingly.

Markets and release nightsSaturday markets and online drop nights are different businesses. Channel math keeps them apart, and the event report ranks the booths.

One bake, to the penny

Say you cure a tray of 24 pairs:

3 blocks of clay @ $3.49$10.47
48 posts (per-100 bag @ $8.50)$4.08
Jump rings$0.85
Earring cards, 24 @ 9¢$2.16
Sandpaper and oven share$1.10

Bake cost — 78¢ a pair$18.66

At $16 a pair you keep $15.22 before fees — which is why the real question is never materials, it's whether the market's booth fee and your sanding hours divide out to a wage. MadeKeeper answers that one too.

If you describe stones and metals in listings, MadeKeeper keeps your purchase records per material — what a supplier called it and what you paid — so your descriptions have paperwork behind them.

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 polymer clay artists ask

How do colorway variants work?

One design, several colorways, each with its own count and sales history. Release a drop and by Monday the ledger says which colorway to re-bake — no more guessing from memory of the checkout rush.

Is scrap clay worth tracking?

Scrap slabs log at zero and become marble and terrazzo pairs with near-perfect margins. Seeing that number is usually the argument for a permanent scrap line in the shop.

What about broken pairs and seconds?

The pair that chipped at the drill sells from a seconds tier or logs as a loss — either way the bake's true yield is in the books, and your per-pair cost reflects what actually survived.

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