Pricing Checks, Free by Email

Five short emails for people who sell what they make: what one item really costs you, margin against markup, whether a shop's wholesale or consignment terms still pay, and whether a market day paid you. With a one-page summary to print.

Most handmade work is underpriced in the same three places. None of them needs a spreadsheet to find. Each one is a single sum on one batch of one product.

These are those three sums, sent as three short emails so that you do one at a time, on your own figures, then one more sum for market days and one email about the paid bundle.

What arrives

Email one, straight away: what does one item really cost you? The whole batch divided by the items you can sell, not the items you made. It comes with a one-page summary of all three checks, to print.

Email two, two days later: is your margin a margin, or a markup? Adding 25% to your cost does not leave you 25% of the price. The email shows the sum that does.

Email three, three days after that: would a shop's terms still pay you? What wholesale at half retail, or a consignment share, leaves once your cost per item is taken off. This one mentions the paid Maker's Pricing Workbook, once, for people who want the three sums kept for every product. Nobody needs it to do the checks.

Email four, four days later: did the market pay you? Takings minus the pitch fee, minus the stock that sold at cost, divided by your hours on the day. No product in it.

Email five, four days after that: the Maker Business Bundle. What is in the $24 bundle and what it is not, once, for people who want the sums as forms to fill in. Nobody needs it to do the checks.

Then the emails stop, unless there is something worth sending.

What it is not

It is arithmetic, not advice. It does not know your costs, your taxes, your fees or the rules where you sell. The worked figures are one fictional batch of bread, there to show the method.

If you would rather not give an address

The same sums run in the free consignment and wholesale calculator, with nothing to sign up for, and the one-page summary is here to download.

What happens to your address

It is stored with our email provider and used to send these emails and the occasional one about pricing what you make. Every email has an unsubscribe link, and unsubscribing stops all of them. The privacy page has the detail.