Take the guess work out of pricing your handmade creations with our Free Crafters Cost Calculator.
Our Free Crafters Cost Calculator is designed especially for makers, artists, and small business owners who create personalised and handmade products. Whether you’re just starting out or already selling, this easy-to-use tool helps you calculate a fair, profitable selling price that covers your materials, pays you for your time, includes your overheads, and ensures you make a healthy profit. By entering a few simple details, you’ll see exactly how your price is built — with the option to add VAT, round to retail-friendly numbers, and instantly adjust for different scenarios. No more undervaluing your work — let our Free Crafters Cost Calculator guide you towards prices that sustain your passion and your business.
🧵 Crafter's Cost & Price Calculator
Work out what each item really costs you to make — materials, time, wastage and overheads — then get a fair retail and wholesale price. All amounts are in South African Rand (R).
1. Product & batch
Making things in batches almost always brings the per-item cost down — tell us your batch size and we'll spread your batch-level costs across every item.
2. Materials
Enter what goes into one whole batch — e.g. if a batch of 10 keyrings uses 2m of cord, enter 2 as the quantity, not 0.2.
3. Your time
Your time is a real cost. Don't skip this — it's the line most crafters undercharge for.
4. Packaging & overheads
Overheads (rent, electricity, tools, software, market/stall fees) are easy to forget but they still need to be paid for by your products.
Overhead allocated per item: R0.00
5. Pricing strategy
6. Results
Cost per item
Suggested retail price
Suggested wholesale price
| Cost breakdown (per item) | Amount |
|---|---|
| Total cost per item | R0.00 |
Profit per item at retail
Profit per item at wholesale
If you have any suggestions or updates that you would like us to make to the Free Crafter Cost Calculator, please email them to darin@customisable.co.za. If you have any ideas of other tools you would like us to look into then also make sure you let us know. Our Free Crafter Cost Calculator was also created using our custom GPT we call “Ask Customisable“.
This is the perfect crafters companion as Ask Customisable is a Custom GPT that we have built to help you. It has been trained to be your Go To for questions you have about crafting. We are continually teaching it new new information so that it can provide you with the latest and most accurate information available.
This is a free tool (in case you missed that) that you can use to ask questions on how to use your products, ask for product ideas or even ask for business advice if you are running your crafting hustle as a business.
Don’t forget that we also sell a wide variety of HTV, Oracal Vinyl, Faux leather, and other crafting goodies. Our heat transfer vinyl and Oracal Vinyl is compatible with both Cricut and Silhouette machines.