Maker business library
36 ways to price and operate with better inputs.
Use a focused calculator when you need a number. Read the method when you need to defend it.
The pricing path
Start with the tool closest to your decision, then improve the inputs that matter most in your shop: material, transfer yield, energy, productive machine time, labor, marketplace fees, failures, investment, demand, and capacity.
Open the full calculatorPricing
Turn a complete cost into a defendable selling price and margin.
How much should I charge for 3D printing?
Build a complete quote from production cost, selling fees, and a profit target—with worked examples.
Handmade product pricing calculator
Build direct and wholesale prices from batch materials, paid labor, failures, overhead, selling fees, and editable margin targets.
Sublimation pricing calculator
Price reject-adjusted sublimation batches with blanks, observed ink, paper yield, labor, setup, fees, and retail or wholesale margins.
Laser engraving pricing calculator
Price personalized single-item and batched engraving orders with machine ownership, blanks, labor, failures, fees, and minimum charges.
Markup vs. margin for 3D printed products
Two percentages that sound similar can produce very different prices. See the formulas and examples.
Costs
Measure materials, energy, machine ownership, labor, and process choices.
DTF gang sheet cost calculator
Plan rectangular transfer fit, landed sheet cost, post-press failure-adjusted quantity, pressing cost, fees, and a true target-margin quote.
Laser cutting cost calculator
Estimate sheet allocation, productive machine cost, labor, failures, break-even, and a target-margin customer quote.
Laser machine hourly rate calculator
Build an auditable laser shop rate from productive utilization, ownership, overhead, utilities, consumables, operator attention, and target margin.
Filament cost per print
Convert spool price and slicer grams into material cost per item, order, and usable gram.
Filament length to weight calculator
Convert filament meters into grams, material cost, and remaining spool capacity from diameter and density.
Resin 3D printing cost calculator
Price resin, supports, consumables, machine time, labor, and failed plates per sellable part.
FDM vs resin cost calculator
Compare equipment, material, labor, consumables, failures, batching, and first-year cash cost per successful part.
3D printer electricity cost
Turn average watts, print hours, and your local kWh rate into a realistic power estimate.
How to set a 3D printer hourly rate
Turn purchase price, useful life, maintenance, and productive hours into a defendable machine rate.
Marketplaces
Audit platform fees, advertising, payment costs, and channel profit.
Etsy fee calculator (US & UK)
Estimate listing, transaction, payment, Offsite Ads, UK regulatory fees, and true order profit.
Etsy Ads ROAS & break-even calculator
Combine Etsy Ads spend and clicks with marketplace fees and order costs to find true profit, break-even ROAS, and maximum CPC.
eBay fee calculator (US & UK)
Model category, tiered final value, per-order, advertising, international, Store, VAT, and true profit costs.
eBay Store subscription break-even calculator
Compare No Store, Starter, Basic, Premium, Anchor, and Enterprise plans by subscription cost, insertion fees, order volume, and final value fee savings.
eBay Promoted Listings break-even calculator
Test a General campaign ad rate against eBay fees, order costs, target margin, and minimum price needed to protect profit.
Etsy vs eBay fee calculator
Compare Etsy and eBay fees, advertising, shared business costs, and true profit for the same US or UK order.
TikTok Shop fee calculator (US & UK)
Model referral, affiliate, advertising, refund, production, and fulfillment costs before estimating TikTok Shop profit.
Shopify fee calculator (US & UK)
Model Shopify Payments, plan and app allocation, third-party providers, currency fees, and order profit.
Shopify plan comparison & break-even calculator
Compare Basic, Grow, and Advanced monthly costs and find the sales volume where upgrading saves money.
Etsy vs Amazon Handmade fee calculator
Compare US or UK platform fees and profit for the same handmade order with shared business costs.
Etsy vs Shopify fee calculator
Compare Etsy deductions with Shopify plan, payment, app, and acquisition costs for the same order.
Etsy 3D print profit calculator (2026)
Estimate US listing, transaction, payment, and optional Offsite Ads fees before you publish a price.
Amazon Handmade fee calculator (US & UK)
Estimate referral fees, UK Digital Services Fee, production, fulfillment, tax, and order profit.
Amazon Handmade FBA vs seller-fulfilled calculator
Compare FBA and seller-fulfilled profit, target-margin limits, monthly break-even units, and customization constraints.
Operations
Plan capacity, failures, investment payback, and sustainable production.
Heat press ROI and payback calculator
Test heat-press investment against production capacity, demand, item contribution, operating break-even, and cash payback.
Laser engraving time calculator
Estimate raster, fill, and image engraving minutes from area, line interval, scan speed, overscan, passes, setup, re-runs, and daily capacity.
Laser cutter ROI and payback calculator
Compare upfront laser investment with order contribution, monthly volume, operating overhead, simple ROI, and payback targets.
Laser business profit and capacity calculator
Test monthly demand against productive machine capacity, then calculate revenue, operating costs, break-even orders, and modeled cash profit.
3D print farm profit and capacity
Model productive machine hours, failure rate, monthly overhead, profit, and equipment payback.
3D printer ROI and payback
Compare equipment investment with monthly value, operating costs, break-even volume, and payback time.
The true cost of failed 3D prints
Turn observed failures into lost machine hours, monthly waste, and a realistic cost per good part.
The 9 costs small print shops often miss
A checklist for failures, labor, maintenance, fees, packaging, and the quiet leaks in every order.