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Handmade pricing calculator
Work out what to charge with your time counted, see your real hourly pay and test wholesale. No signup.
How to Price Handmade Items: A Simple Formula
A simple formula that counts materials, packaging, your own time, fees and profit, with a worked UK example you can copy.
Read the guide →The Hidden Costs Eating Your Handmade Profit
Busy but not making money? Five hidden costs that quietly eat handmade profit, from unpaid time to dead stock, and how to find yours.
Read the guide →How to Stop Running Out of Materials
A simple inventory system for makers: reorder points, minimum stock levels and finding the one material that limits everything else.
Read the guide →Craft Fair Profit and Stock: How to Track Market Sales (with SumUp)
Work out your real profit after stall fees and your own time, restock sensibly and match SumUp card sales to products.
Read the guide →Is KavanaStock Good for Etsy Sellers? An Honest Answer
It shows true profit per item and warns when materials run low, but it does not sync live with Etsy. Here is the full picture.
Read the guide →KavanaStock vs Craftybase and Stocksmith: An Honest Comparison
Where KavanaStock is simpler and cheaper, and where Craftybase or Stocksmith are the better fit for makers.
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