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Welcome! This guide takes you from a fresh account to your first tracked show in about fifteen minutes. Nothing here requires a credit card conversation with your accountant — the whole point of MakerEventsOS is that the math happens for you.
Sign up with your email, confirm it, and you'll land in onboarding. You'll be asked for your business name — that becomes your workspace (and, if you add the Website module later, the default name on your storefront).
Head to Catalog → Products. For each product you sell, add at minimum:
If a product comes in sizes or colors, add options and variants on the product page — each variant gets its own price and stock count. If your catalog already lives in Square or Etsy, don't retype it: see Square sync and Etsy import.
A note on stock: leave stock blank for things you don't count, set a number for things you do, and read Inventory & made-to-order for the middle cases.
Go to Events → Add event. Give it a name, a date, the booth fee, and (if you want mileage counted) the round-trip distance. That's enough for a P&L.
Then allocate inventory: on the event page, choose what you're bringing and how many. Two things fall out of this automatically:
Three ways, use whichever fits:
Open the event when the tent comes down. Revenue, minus booth fee, minus the cost of what you sold, minus mileage — that's your actual profit for the show, not a gut feeling. Over a season, the Reports section ranks every show the same way, so next year's calendar builds itself: rebook the winners, drop the duds.