Free resources for craft sellers, bakers & makers

Live Etsy fee calculator updated for 2026. Enter item price, shipping, country, COGS, and ad spend — see listing, transaction, payment processing, Offsite Ads, and regulatory operating fees broken out line by line, plus your true net profit per sale.

Soapmaking's foundational lye math. NaOH or KOH, 26 oils with SAP values from Dunn (2010), superfat, water, and fragrance load — all in one fast mobile-friendly tool.

Live web version of our Excel pricing calculator. Materials + labor + packaging + platform fees → defensible retail at your target margin, with batch-pricing tiers.

Side-by-side fee comparison across eBay, Etsy, Poshmark, Depop, Mercari, and Vinted for a single sale. Live 2026 fee math with net payout sorted highest to lowest.

A live web tool that runs the +10% / +20% / +30% price-hike math for one product — including the volume drop that comes with each — and tells you which scenario clears the most monthly profit.

Pick a target hourly rate, enter your materials, hands-on minutes per unit, and platform fees — the calculator returns the minimum price that actually pays you that rate after fees and costs. Maker-business specific, not a "freelance day rate" tool.

9-question shareable quiz that classifies you into one of 8 maker pricing personalities — from Cost-Plus Cathy to Reluctant Raiser Rita. Personalized next-move advice.

Compare BOGO, % off, $ off, and free-shipping promos side by side with your real margin. See the volume lift each promo needs just to break even — the counter-intuitive math most sellers get wrong.

A multi-platform tracker that tells you which payment processors will send you a 1099-K this year under the post-OBBBA 2026 rules. Federal $20K + 200 transactions; ten states + DC trigger earlier.

A free, scoped-for-small-sellers economic-nexus checker. Enter your trailing 12-month sales and transactions per state, and the tool flags every state where you have probably crossed the post-Wayfair economic-nexus threshold — without pushing you into a filing product.

Walk through the nine factors of Treasury Regulation §1.183-2(b) and find out whether your side activity qualifies as a for-profit business or a hobby for federal tax purposes — and where to focus to strengthen the business case.

A free Etsy Ads break-even calculator. Enter item price, costs, conversion rate, and Etsy fees — and get the maximum average CPC your campaign can sustain and the break-even ROAS for your listing. Pairs with the Etsy fee calculator.

Unified subscription box unit-economics calculator. Contribution margin, LTV, CAC payback, LTV:CAC ratio, and break-even subscribers — plus a 12-month projection.

Maker-focused per-job pricing for laser engravers and CNC routers. Materials + machine time + labor + design amortization → defensible quote with margin.

Kickstarter math for tabletop game designers. Per-unit manufacturing at MOQ tiers, freight, fulfillment, platform fees, break-even backers, and distribution scenarios.

Estimate fruit yield from biological efficiency (BE), substrate weight, and species. Includes flush distribution, cost per block, and per-block profit at your prices.

Pick a wax or soap base, enter your batch size, and get the exact fragrance oil weight — plus the typical and max load for that medium and the cost per unit.

Pick container diameter, wax family, and fragrance load — get starting wick recommendations across the CD, ECO, HTP, LX, CDN, RRD, and Zinc series with construction notes.

Walk every wedding arrangement (bouquets, centerpieces, ceremony pieces, installations) — get total stems by composition tier and an estimated wholesale flower cost.

Enter green weight, roast level, and retail bag size — get roasted weight, bag count, and (with green price + packaging + labor) the cost of goods per bag.

Pick dark, milk, white, or ruby chocolate and a tempering method (seeding, tabling, Mycryo) — get the three-stage melt / cool / working temperature ramp in °F or °C.

Enter a measured finished pH; the tool classifies it against FDA 21 CFR Part 114 acidified-foods thresholds and lists the regulatory next steps. Educational only — not a Process Authority filing.

Pick your state, enter year-to-date gross sales, and see in real time how close you are to the cap that turns a cottage food operation into a regulated food business. Covers all 50 states + DC.

A maker-business runway calculator. Enter savings, day-job income, current side-business profit, growth rate, and household expenses — and find out how many months until your craft business can actually replace the paycheck.

Drop any of our twenty-four interactive calculators, trackers, quizzes, or decision tools onto your own site with a copy-paste snippet. Web Component or iframe. Free, always.

A working Excel pricing calculator — materials, labor, packaging, and platform fees in, a defensible retail price out. Plus a batch tab that shows what 50 vs. 10 actually costs.

A working Excel inventory tracker for makers — raw materials, finished goods, packaging, and a purchase log. Reorder thresholds and a status column do the math; conditional formatting flashes red when you are below the line.

A working Excel expense tracker organized by IRS Schedule C category. Drop-down picker on every row, a Monthly Summary that builds itself, a year-end Schedule C view, and a mileage log with the deduction calculated for you.

A working Excel worksheet for self-employed makers — log income, set filing status, and the four quarterly estimated-tax payments calculate themselves. SE tax (15.3%) plus federal income tax math built in, with a safe-harbor escape hatch on its own tab.

A working Excel calculator for Etsy sellers — every fee broken out, bulk reconciliation across 60 orders, and a listing-price solver that targets a margin AFTER Etsy takes its cut.

A working Excel recipe scaler — enter a base recipe, set a target yield, and every ingredient auto-scales with unit conversions (oz/g/lb/ml/cups). Plus a batch-cost tab and a unit-conversion reference.

A working Excel line sheet for handmade wholesale — buyer-ready front sheet, per-SKU pricing math behind it, and the formulas already wired in.

A working Excel worksheet for sellers reconciling Etsy + Shopify + in-person sales against bank deposits — surfaces fee shortfalls, refund mis-postings, and a per-channel monthly P&L.

A working Excel order book for custom-cake and cookie bakers. Customer, items, dietary, deposit, balance, and a production calendar that rolls bake / decorate / shop dates backwards from each delivery.

A working Excel cost-per-bar calculator for cold-process and melt-and-pour soap. Oils, lye (auto-calculated from SAP values), fragrance, colorants, mold and packaging in; per-bar fully-loaded cost out — with cure-weight loss baked into the bar count.

A working Excel cost-per-piece calculator for handcrafted jewelry — metals by the gram, gemstones by the piece or carat, findings, chain, labor in minutes, and gift-wrap in; per-piece fully-loaded cost plus suggested retail and wholesale out. Defaults stamped with a date so metals-price staleness is visible.

A working Excel profit tracker for printable, template, and digital download sellers on Etsy / Gumroad / Shopify / Payhip / your own site. Per-listing units, fees, ad spend, net profit, and a top-earner / underperformer / bundle-candidate signal — no email required.

A working Excel workbook for small-batch coffee roasters — roast profile log (charge temp, first-crack time, drop temp, development ratio), SCA-style cupping scores by lot, a 4-component blend calculator, and per-bag costing that picks up the actual measured weight loss from each roast.

Every Schedule C line that matters to a maker — what belongs, what doesn't, and the mistakes that cost money.

Revenue caps, sales venues, registration rules, and the most common restrictions for all 50 states and DC — in one place, in plain English.

A 18-page narrative guide to Etsy's fee structure, fee-aware pricing, multi-channel inventory, returns, and the signal that says it is time to add a second sales channel.

When a spreadsheet is enough, when it stops working, and how to tell the difference before it costs you.

A vendor-neutral PDF primer on building a real SKU system — prefix conventions that survive variants and reorders, when barcodes start paying for themselves, free vs. paid barcode options, and a one-page printable cheat sheet for the workbench wall.

36 things to set up before — and after — your first sale. Inventory, pricing, and the legal essentials in one place.

A two-page printable for the December/January annual ritual — full stocktake, write-off identification, dead-stock liquidation plan, and the Schedule C Part III math that turns this year’s ending inventory into next year’s opening balance.

Seven steps to a clean monthly close — sales reconciliation, inventory counts, expense review, P&L, planning, reordering, and backup. Print one each month.

Three sections, one page. Print, count, and reconcile raw materials, finished goods, and packaging — with expected, actual, and variance columns.

A printable six-page playbook for handmade-goods producers — five planning principles, the demand-driven batch-sizing formula, and four worksheets for sizing, run logging, weekly WIP, and post-run audit.

Pre-show break-even math, a packing and booth-setup checklist, in-show data to track, and a post-show reconciliation page — one printable per event.

A four-page fillable PDF for tracking suppliers — vendor records, an alternate-supplier scoring sheet, and a one-row-per-vendor master index. Type into it in your PDF reader, or print blank copies for the clipboard.