Practical guide 3 min read
How to price handmade items, including Etsy fees
Solve for a price that covers your costs, your hourly rate, a profit and marketplace fees, and check what a price you have in mind really pays.
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Craft Project Cost Calculator
List what went into a project, what you paid and how much you used. You get the cost of the materials you used, what you had to buy in whole packs, and the full cost per item once your time and overhead are counted.
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Runs in your browser. What you enter is saved on this device only.
How to use the Craft Project Cost Calculator
- Add each material with the price you paid, how much came in the pack and how much the project used, in the same unit.
- Enter the time it took and the hourly rate you want for your work.
- Add packaging and overhead per item: a share of tools, electricity and craft fair fees.
- If the amounts made more than one item, enter how many. Then send the cost on to the pricing calculator.
How it’s calculated
Each material costs price × amount used ÷ amount in the pack. Whole packs to buy are the amount used ÷ pack size, rounded up, times the price. Labour is hours × your hourly rate. Materials and labour are for the whole batch and are divided by the number of items it made; packaging and overhead are per item.
Questions
Should I count my time if I craft for fun?
If you sell what you make, yes. Leaving your time out makes an item look cheaper to make than it is, and prices are hard to raise later. Count it at a rate you’d accept for the work, even if you decide to round the final price down.
What counts as overhead?
The costs that aren’t in one item but keep you making: hooks and tools that wear out, stitch markers, electricity, craft fair fees, a website subscription, photo props. Add up a month and divide by the items you make in a month for a per-item figure.
Why are there two material totals?
“Materials used” is what went into the item: 450 yards of a 200-yard skein is 2.25 skeins’ worth. “To buy” is what you paid for in whole packs: 3 skeins. Price on what you used if you’ll use the rest, and on what you bought if the leftovers will sit in a drawer.
Are my numbers saved?
On this device only. Each calculator remembers what you last entered, in your browser, so you can pick up where you left off; nothing is sent to our server. Reset puts the starting values back.
Do I need an account?
No. Every craft calculator is free to use without signing in, with no limits.
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