Blanks, engraving and personalization that pays
Keepsel is inventory and production software for laser engravers. Track wood, slate, acrylic and metal blanks by the piece, cost machine time into every job (from the Maker plan), and price personalization as the premium product it is.
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An engraved piece in Keepsel
Product
Engraved Slate Coaster
SKU COASTER-SLATE
Material
Slate Coaster Blank
tracked in each · Blanks
Supplier
Timber & Tools Supply
Variations, from Maker
Material, Size
Track everything that goes into an engraved piece
From raw materials to the finished piece, Keepsel keeps laser engravers on top of:
- lumber by the board-foot
- blanks
- finish and stain
- hardware
- sandpaper and consumables
Built around how laser engravers actually work
A wall of blanks, four materials deep
Coasters in slate, signs in wood, awards in acrylic, tags in metal: each blank type with its own cost and stock. Per-material counts keep every product line ready to burn.
Machine time is a cost with a motor
A 12-minute engrave carries electricity, lens life and your machine's payback. From the Maker plan, a per-minute shop rate in each recipe prices the burn, not just the blank.
Personalized means made-to-order
Custom names can't be shelved in advance. Check your blank count before you reply to the order, so 'yes, by Friday' is said from real counts.
Batch jobs, single-piece prices
Fifty wedding-favor coasters and one memorial plaque price differently. Spread setup across a batch; let a one-off carry it whole, and both are priced correctly.
Engraved Slate Coaster, 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 personalized version sells at $14 on the same $1.75 base: the name is the margin.
Engraved Slate Coaster
- Slate coaster blank
- $1.15
- Laser time (8 min @ shop rate)
- $0.20
- Padding feet
- $0.10
- Sleeve + kraft box
- $0.30
- True cost
- $1.75
- Suggested price
- $10.00
- Margin
- 83%
A day in Keepsel, for laser engravers
Shelve blanks by material
Slate, wood, acrylic and metal blanks counted by piece and size, with per-unit costs from real orders.
Recipe each product
A slate coaster: one blank, feet pads and a sleeve; from the Maker plan, its 8 minutes of laser at your shop rate too.
Engrave and log the run
From the Maker plan, a work order for a 50-coaster wedding order deducts 50 blanks and adds the finished coasters to stock (work orders up to 10 a month on Maker as a trial and 100 on Team, unlimited on Business and Enterprise).
Reorder before the rush
From the Maker plan, low-stock alerts on your workhorse blanks fire at the limits you set, so set them high enough to cover lead times ahead of wedding season and Q4.
Questions laser engravers ask
How do I price laser engraved products?
Blank plus burn time plus packaging is the floor; personalization is the premium on top. A $1.75-cost coaster at $10 plain and $14 personalized reflects what customers actually pay for: the customization, not the slate. From the Maker plan, Keepsel counts that time in each product's cost.
How do I cost laser machine time?
Set a per-minute shop rate that covers power, lens and tube wear, and the machine's payback, then, from the Maker plan, put each design's burn minutes in its recipe. Long engraves stop being 'free' the day the rate exists.
How do I track engraving blanks across materials?
Each blank type (slate, wood, acrylic, metal, glass) is a counted material with its own cost. From the Maker plan, low-stock alerts per material keep every product line stocked.
How should I price bulk engraving orders?
Spread setup and file-prep across the run and let materials scale: 50 coasters is 50 blanks plus one setup, not 50. Pricing from the recipe this way protects the margin at any quantity.
Can Keepsel handle personalized made-to-order engraving?
Yes. A personalized item is a product with its own recipe, so you know its cost before you quote, and the blanks on hand tell you whether you can take the order. From the Maker plan, a work order draws the blanks down when you burn it.
Keepsel for other crafts
Guides for laser engravers
All guidesHow to Price Laser Engraving (Burn Time Is Money)
The blank costs $1.15. The laser cost thousands. Price the burn time and the personalization: that's where laser margins live.
How to Manage Made-to-Order and Custom Inventory
Made-to-order frees you from holding finished stock, but custom work has its own inventory trap. Here's how to keep materials ready and orders on track.
How to Plan Production Around a Product Launch or Drop
A drop concentrates a month of demand into an afternoon. Here's how to plan stock and production so a launch is a triumph, not a scramble or a flop.
Reorder Points: How to Set Them So You Never Run Out
Running out of a key material mid-order is avoidable. A reorder point is the simple number that tells you when to buy more. Here's how to set one.
Run your laser engraving 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.