For sign makers

Blanks in, custom orders out.

Your business runs on blanks and roll goods — wood rounds and rectangles by the piece, vinyl and transfer tape by the foot — turned into made-to-order pieces with someone's name on them. Personalization means almost nothing sits as finished stock; it's blanks, orders, and turnaround. MadeKeeper is built for exactly that shape.

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.

How MadeKeeper maps to your shop

Blanks as the inventoryRounds, planks, and porch-leaners log by the piece at cost. Your stock question isn't "how many finished signs" — it's "how many 18-inch rounds are left," and MadeKeeper answers it.
Vinyl by the roll-footEach color and finish logs by the foot; every order pulls what it used, weeding scraps included in a waste factor. Transfer tape counts too.
Custom listings with turnaroundEach order is its own piece — the blank, the vinyl, the stain, the hours — so a $45 custom listing shows its real margin, and your queue shows what's promised for when.
Markets, Etsy, and wholesaleCraft-fair tables, Etsy custom listings, and a boutique wholesale run each track their own channel and fees — with the event math on every market day.

One custom sign, to the penny

Say you make an 18" personalized round:

  • 18" wood blank$8.25
  • 2.4 ft of vinyl @ 55¢/ft$1.32
  • Transfer tape$0.48
  • Stain and sealer$1.60
True cost of the sign$11.65

At $45 you kept $33.35 before fees. Across a month of custom orders, that per-piece honesty is the difference between a busy shop and a profitable one.

One calm note a lot of sign shops learn the hard way: team logos and licensed marks belong to their owners. MadeKeeper keeps your order history and what-you-made records tidy; what's safe to cut stays your call.

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 sign makers ask

How do I track vinyl usage?

Rolls log by the foot per color; orders pull their footage with a waste factor for weeding and misfeeds. When a popular color runs low, you'll see it before the order that needed it.

Does MadeKeeper handle made-to-order work?

Yes — it's the natural mode here. Orders queue with their materials and turnaround, blanks draw down as you cut, and finished-goods stock stays near zero like it does in real life.

Can I split market sales from custom orders?

Each channel tracks separately — market-day ready-mades, Etsy customs, wholesale runs — so you can see which side of the shop actually pays for your weekends.

Ready to see your real numbers?

The app is live and free during the pilot. Lock the $19/mo founding rate for as long as you stay.

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