What should you charge for this print?
Work out a price that covers materials, failed prints, your time, and selling fees. Choose the profit margin you want to keep.
Calculated price per successful print
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- Material per attempt
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- Machine time per attempt
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- Power per attempt
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- Production including retries
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- Hands-on labor
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- Cost including packaging
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- Profit after selling fees
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Example assumptions. Replace with your own costs. Shipping, sales tax and design work are excluded unless added to your inputs.
How your margin affects the price
With a 30% margin, you keep $3 in profit from a $10 sale. Markup is measured against cost: adding 30% to a $10 cost gives a $13 price and a 23% margin. This calculator solves price as (cost + fixed selling fee) ÷ (1 − margin − percentage selling fee).
How failed prints change the quote
At a 10% failed-attempt rate, expect 1 ÷ 0.90 attempts for each successful print. We apply that factor to material, machine time and power. Hands-on labor is entered once per successful order. Include your expected cleanup and rework time in that labor input.
At the example settings, production before retries is $4.72. Expected production with retries is about $5.24. Labor and packaging bring cost to about $12.49. With a 10% selling fee, $0.30 fixed fee and 30% target margin, the calculated selling price is about $21.32.
Use the result as a starting point for your quote. Allow for design work, finishing, and support, then consider what customers will pay for the finished part.
Need to price a batch or keep customer quotes?
Work through a 100-part pricing example, including setup costs and what changes for a smaller order.
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