Whatever you make, know what it makes you
Keepsel is inventory and production software for handmade sellers of every kind. Build any product from a real bill of materials (your hours too, from the Maker plan), and run the whole craft business, materials to margins, from one honest set of numbers.
Try free for 30 days, with 25 Suli messages once you confirm your email (all of Suli from Maker). No card.
Track everything that goes into a handmade product
From raw materials to the finished piece, Keepsel keeps handmade sellers on top of:
- components and supplies
- kit items
- finishing materials
- packaging
A handmade product in Keepsel
Product
Handmade Gift Item
SKU HANDMADE-001
Material
Base Material
tracked in each · Supplies
Supplier
Maker Supply Co.
Variations, from Maker
Size, Color
A day in Keepsel, for handmade sellers
List what you buy
Every material in the unit you use it (by the ounce, yard, foot or piece) at what it really cost.
Build each product's recipe
Materials, and from the Maker plan your minutes too: the true cost of anything you make, however unconventional.
Run making days
From the Maker plan, a work order draws materials down and adds finished stock, so the workshop and the numbers finally agree (work orders up to 10 a month on Maker as a trial and 100 on Team, unlimited on Business and Enterprise).
Price and prune with data
Margin per product shows what to make more of, raise, or retire, and from the Maker plan (or 25 messages free on the trial) you can ask Suli which products earn and which lose money.
Built around how handmade sellers actually work
Your craft doesn't fit the template
Mixed-media, one-of-a-kind, three crafts at once: real handmade businesses are messy. A flexible bill of materials costs whatever you actually make, however you make it.
The spreadsheet stopped scaling
The pricing sheet that worked at ten products breaks at forty. When formulas drift and tabs multiply, the numbers quietly stop being true, and prices built on them follow. From the Maker plan, Suli takes your spreadsheet as it is and works out the columns.
Underpricing is the default
Most handmade prices start from 'what would I pay?' and end in unpaid labor. Cost-plus pricing from a real bill of materials and honest hours (counted in the cost from the Maker plan) is the antidote, and it usually says 'charge more.'
One business, many tables
Etsy, markets, Instagram DMs, the occasional shop: every channel sells the same finished stock. From the Maker plan, each product has one finished-stock count, and every sale you record takes its units off that same shelf.
Handmade Gift Item, costed line by line
This is the math Keepsel does for every product you make: every line from its recipe, updated whenever a material's price changes. Your time counts from the Maker plan.
A 2× on true cost, including labor, is the classic handmade floor. Without the labor line it's an illusion.
Handmade Gift Item
- Base materials
- $4.20
- Finishing supplies
- $0.85
- Packaging + tag
- $0.95
- Your time (1 hr @ $15/hr)
- $15.00
- True cost
- $21.00
- Suggested price
- $42.00
- Margin
- 50%
Questions handmade sellers ask
How do I price handmade items?
Materials plus honest labor plus margin, in that order, with nothing skipped. The classic formula is cost × 2 for wholesale and cost × 3–4 for retail, where 'cost' genuinely includes your hours. Keepsel works out the cost from your recipe, and from the Maker plan counts your time in it, so the formula stands on something.
What's the best inventory software for handmade businesses?
One that thinks in recipes: raw materials in real units, products built from bills of materials, production that moves one into the other. Generic retail inventory counts boxes; handmade needs the making tracked too.
When should I stop using a spreadsheet for my craft business?
When updating it feels like a second job, when prices are built on formulas nobody's checked in months, or when you've sold something you didn't have. Those are the three signs the sheet is now costing more than software would.
How do I know which handmade products are profitable?
Margin per piece and earnings per hour, side by side. Bestsellers can be your worst earners once hours are counted, and the numbers regularly reorder a maker's 'what to make this week' list. The free pricing calculator shows your real hourly earnings on any piece. From the Maker plan, Keepsel counts that time in each product's cost.
Can Keepsel handle a business that makes many different things?
That's the design: any material, any unit, any recipe. Candles beside quilts beside jewelry: one workspace costs them all, as one business.
Keepsel for other crafts
Guides for handmade sellers
All guidesHow to Price Your Handmade Products (Without Guessing)
Most makers price by gut feel and quietly lose money. Here's a simple formula that covers your materials, pays you for your time, and leaves real profit.
How to Calculate the True Cost of a Handmade Product
Materials are only part of the story. Here's how to find the real cost of a handmade product, including the costs that quietly eat your profit.
5 Signs You've Outgrown Spreadsheets for Inventory
A spreadsheet is the right first tool for inventory. But there's a moment it starts costing you more time than it saves. Here are the 5 signs.
KPIs Every Maker Should Track (and Ignore)
You don't need a dashboard of 50 metrics. You need a handful that tell you the truth. Here are the numbers worth watching, and the ones to ignore.
Run your handmade business like a business
Know your true cost and margin and keep every material counted. Or try the free pricing calculator first.
Try free for 30 days, with 25 Suli messages once you confirm your email (all of Suli from Maker). No card.