MakerWorth / business clarity for handmade artists

Know your true costs. Price your work with confidence.

MakerWorth helps handmade artists calculate true costs, price creations confidently, and organize business information. Guests get three total calculator previews across Price My Creation, Auction Check, and Custom Orders. A registered-free account is also limited to three previews; guest previews carry into that same allowance.

Open the Pricing Toolbox Need a pricing answer? Explore all three tools in the toolbox →

Three ways to ask the math

Price My Creation, Auction Check, or Custom Orders.

Each tool keeps planned labor pay inside your costs and shows additional profit as a separate choice. Switch between them without losing your work.

One workspace for every pricing question

Pricing Toolbox

Keep your numbers in one place, then choose the lens that fits the sale in front of you.

Three total guest previews

Choose a pricing tool

Price the whole piece

Planned labor pay belongs in your costs, before additional profit.

Batch quantityTry 3How many identical creations are in this batch.MaterialsTry $18Yarn, clay, wood, fabric, and supplies.Labor hoursTry 3Your hands-on making time.Hourly payTry $25What your planned making time should earn.PackagingTry $3Mailers, boxes, labels, and wrapping.OverheadTry $4A share of studio, tools, or admin costs.Selling feesTry 10%Your percentage fee on the sale.Additional profit marginTry 20%Profit you want beyond paying yourself.

A shared way to think about price

Pay yourself first. Then decide what more you want to earn.

MakerWorth treats planned labor pay as part of the cost of making the item. Your target margin is additional profit, not a second payment for the same hours.

Making costs: Materials + planned labor
Break-even: Covers costs after fees
Suggested price: Costs + additional profit
Works for: Pieces, bids, and custom orders

Keep your pricing close

Save creations for the next market, collection, or customer request.

Guests can run three total previews across the three calculators. Registered-free members can save calculations within their allowance and keep private materials in My Maker Library; their account also has a three-preview limit. Guest previews carry into the same allowance after sign-in. Business Resources descriptions are open to everyone, with a read-only Product Cost sample; editing, saving, and PDF downloads require verified All Access or verified administrator access. All Access is one $12.99/month USD membership for verified accounts, with no trial or setup fee.

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Make the bid make sense

A clear auction floor starts with your assumptions.

MakerWorth keeps the math visible and the fee assumptions editable, so you can pressure test a bid without pretending every auction platform charges the same way.

Start with the full cost

Include the complete cost to make or source one item. This gives the break-even calculation a real floor.

Add item cost

Keep the fee editable

Auction and payment costs vary. Enter your own percentage assumption instead of relying on a platform-specific default.

Set your fee rate

Account for fixed fees

A flat fee reduces what remains from every winning bid, so include it alongside the percentage fee.

Add the flat fee

Test the proposed bid

Enter the bid you are considering and see immediately whether it clears your break-even floor.

Test a bid

Read your break-even bid

The minimum break-even bid covers item cost plus the assumed flat and percentage fees.

See your bid floor

Save when it is useful

Calculate anonymously, then sign in only if you want to keep a private result in Saved Creations.

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