For soap makers

Your cure rack, on the books.

You weigh everything — oils to the gram, lye by the SAP math, fragrance to the batch — and then the loaf sits on the cure rack for six weeks where no spreadsheet can see it. Soap exists-but-unsellable longer than almost any craft. MadeKeeper tracks the batch from trace to cure date to market table, lot number attached the whole way.

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How MadeKeeper maps to your soap room

Oils and lye by weightOlive, coconut, shea, castor — logged by the ounce or gram at cost, pulled by the batch recipe along with the lye. The scale runs your soap room; the books should match it.

A loaf is a batch with a lot numberOne pour, ten to twelve bars, one lot. Costs spread per bar automatically, and the lot number rides every bar to the till — so any question later traces to one batch.

The cure rack is inventoryBars curing for four to six weeks are made but not sellable, and MadeKeeper counts them exactly that way. Your fall-market stock plan starts from the rack, not from hope.

Markets, Etsy, and wholesaleSaturday tables, online orders, and wholesale into the local shop each track their own pricing and fees, with the was-it-worth-it math on every market.

One loaf, to the penny

Say you pour a 32-oz cold process batch:

16 oz olive oil @ 22¢/oz$3.52
8 oz coconut oil @ 19¢/oz$1.52
4 oz shea butter @ 55¢/oz$2.20
4 oz castor oil @ 34¢/oz$1.36
4.4 oz lye @ 28¢/oz$1.23
2 oz fragrance @ $1.10/oz$2.20

Loaf cost — cuts to 10 bars at $1.20 each$12.03

At $8 a bar you keep $6.80 before fees — and those ten bars stay on the cure rack, counted but unsellable, until their date comes up. Superfat it differently next batch and the cost follows the recipe.

MadeKeeper keeps the batch records the paperwork side of soap asks about — lots, dates, and what went into each pour — the same records INCI labeling and MoCRA-era record-keeping lean on, in the app instead of a binder.

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 soap makers ask

Does MadeKeeper understand cure time?

Yes. A batch logs with its cure date, and its bars count as made but not sellable until then. Your market-day stock number is the rack's real answer, not the loaf count.

Can I track lye and oils by weight?

Everything logs by weight — ounces or grams — at what you paid. Batch recipes pull each oil and the lye by weight, so a recipe tweak or an oil price jump reprices the next loaf automatically.

How do batch and lot numbers work?

Every pour gets a lot; every bar carries it to the sale. If a customer asks about a bar in March, you can say which batch, which date, and which recipe — from the app, not from memory.

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