Forty mugs go into the greenware shelf; thirty-four come out of the glaze fire whole. Clay by the 25-lb bag, glazes by the pint or the gram, a kiln load as the natural batch — and loss at every stage that your prices have to carry. MadeKeeper costs your work by what survives, because that's what you actually sell.
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 a kiln load fires 40 mugs and 34 survive:
At $38 a mug you keep $35.78 before fees and booth costs — and when a bad glaze week drops survival to 28, you'll see the real cost move instead of wondering why the month felt thin.
For functional ware, MadeKeeper keeps your glaze and firing records per batch — which glaze went on what, fired to what cone — written down in the app instead of a studio notebook.
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 →
You log what went in and what survived; the survivors carry the full batch cost. It's the honest version of pottery math — the S-crack in the bisque load was never free.
Yes. Log dry materials by weight and your mixed glazes as recipes of them, or keep it simple and log commercial glaze by the pint. Either way, each piece pulls its real glaze cost.
Every event gets booth fee, miles, and hours against what sold — profit per hour, ranked across your season. A kiln-opening sale at the studio runs the same math with zero booth fee.
The app is live and free during the pilot. Lock the $19/mo founding rate for as long as you stay.