Materials, time, overheads and margin — a price you can actually defend.
Most handmade pricing is materials plus a guess. The guess is where the wage goes missing, and it is why a busy maker can work a full week for nothing.
What is in it
- Materials costed to the gram, metre or unit
- Your time paid at a rate you choose, not what is left over
- Overheads shared across what you actually make
- Wholesale and retail prices from the same numbers
- Filled example plus a blank copy
Who it is for
Makers selling on Etsy, at markets or wholesale.
How it works
Microsoft Excel 2016 or newer on Windows or Mac, and Google Sheets — upload the file and open it with Sheets, every formula works. LibreOffice too. No macros, no add-ons, no account to create and nothing to install.
The download is instant. Every workbook ships twice: one with a worked example already filled in so you can see what each column expects, and the same file completely blank for your own numbers. A plain-English Start Here guide comes with it as a PDF.
Sold through my Etsy shop, ThePlainLedger, so the download, the payment and the buyer protection are all handled by Etsy. I never ask for access to anything — no password, no manager invite, no app permissions. You download a file; that is the whole transaction.