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Pricing & cost calculator

Understand your costs before setting a price. Use one currency throughout. For a service, use one unit for one job.

How to use this calculator

Decide what one unit means. One cupcake, one box of cupcakes, or one complete service job. Keep that choice consistent.
Enter the costs for the whole batch/job. Materials, packaging, labor hours and other costs are totals. The calculator divides those costs by your number of units.
Add selling fees and a margin goal. Fees come from your actual payment or sales provider. Your margin target is your choice.
Enter a selling price to compare. This is optional: use 0 to skip the comparison.
Select Calculate. Review the results below. Change your inputs and calculate again to compare options.

Example: 12 cupcakes sold individually

Select Try a bakery example to fill these values automatically: 12 units; 18 ingredients; 6 packaging; 2 labor hours at 15/hour; 6 other costs; 3% selling fee; no fixed fee; 20% target margin; 8 selling price. All money amounts use USD.

Total batch cost is 60: 18 + 6 + (2 × 15) + 6. Dividing by 12 gives 5 cost per cupcake. With the sample 3% fee, break-even is about 5.15, and the price for a 20% margin is about 6.49. At 8 each, about 2.76 remains per cupcake after the entered costs and fees—a 34.5% margin.

If you sell all 12 as ONE box, enter 1 unit and compare the whole-box price. The same costs then belong to one box, not one cupcake.

These are teaching amounts, not suggested prices or fee rates.

Product or serviceName what you are pricing. Example: 12 cupcakes, one gift basket, or one cleaning job.CurrencyChoose the currency for every money amount below. USD is US dollars; LRD is Liberian dollars. Do not mix currencies.Units in this batch or jobHow many sellable items do these costs produce? Enter 12 for 12 cupcakes sold individually. Enter 1 for a whole box sold as one product, or one service job.

Costs for the whole batch or job

Materials / ingredientsCost of the materials actually used for the entire batch/job. Example: ingredients for all 12 cupcakes cost 18. If a 10 bag supplies several batches, count only the portion used here.PackagingTotal packaging cost for the entire batch/job: boxes, bags, labels or containers. Example: 12 boxes cost 6 altogether. Enter 0 if none.Total labor hoursHours spent making or delivering the entire batch/job, not hours per item. Example: 2 hours for 12 cupcakes. For 90 minutes, enter 1.5.Labor cost per hourAmount you assign to one hour of work in your chosen currency. Example: 15 per hour × 2 hours = 30 labor cost. Include your own time even if you have not paid yourself yet.Other allocated costsOther costs assigned to this batch/job, such as delivery, electricity or equipment use. Example: 6 for this batch. Do not enter your whole monthly bill unless this is its only job. Enter 0 if none; omitted costs make the estimate incomplete.

Fees and pricing goal per unit

Percentage selling / payment fee (%)Percentage of the selling price charged by your payment processor or sales platform. Enter 3 for a 3% fee, not 0.03. Use your actual fee schedule; enter 0 if no percentage fee applies.Fixed fee allocated to each unitFixed selling/payment fee assigned to ONE sellable unit, not the batch. Example: a 0.30 fee for an order of 12 individually priced cupcakes is 0.025 per cupcake. If the entire box is one unit, enter 0.30. Enter 0 if none.Target margin (%)Share of the selling price you want left after the entered costs and fees. Example: a 20% margin means 2 left from a 10 sale. This differs from adding 20% to your costs. Choose your own target; 20 is only an example.Price to compare per unitA current or proposed selling price for ONE unit. Example: 8 for one cupcake. This lets you compare that price with your costs. Leave 0 if you only want a calculated price.

This calculator does not create sales or expense records, change your profile prices, or save inputs after you leave.

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Pricing & cost calculator

Example: 12 cupcakes sold individually

Costs for the whole batch or job

Fees and pricing goal per unit

Your estimate