Use the sandbox pricing tool to experiment with product pricing without affecting real data.

Overview

The Pricing Calculator is a sandbox tool that lets you experiment with product pricing without creating or modifying any real product records. It uses the same pricing formulas as the product pricing worksheet, making it ideal for exploring "what if" scenarios before committing changes.

How It Works

Navigate to Inventory > Pricing Calculator. The page has two main sections:

Components or Workflow — Add components from your inventory, or the steps it takes to make the piece
Pricing Panel — View calculated costs and pricing based on your selected components and labor inputs

Adding Components

Use the Components panel to search through your component inventory. Click Add on any component and specify the quantity to include it in your calculation. Components can be added multiple times with different quantities. The parts list updates below the Components panel showing all selected components and their combined material cost.

How long does a piece take?

Not sure how many minutes to put in Minutes to make one? Break the piece into steps and let the calculator add them up.

Under Work out materials and time from, choose Workflow.
Choose + Add step for each part of making it, like Cut, Solder or Polish, with its minutes. In the same pop-up, pick the components that step uses.
Minutes to make one and Materials cost fill in from your steps.

Anything you already entered moves into a first step called Materials, so your numbers don't change.
Load template adds the steps from a template you saved to the end.
Create template opens a copy of your steps in a pop-up. Save it as a template to load into a real product later. It's the one thing on this page that gets saved.

Switching back to Components shows every component from your steps in one list.

Pricing Calculations

The calculator uses the same words as the pricing section on a product, so the numbers line up:

Labor cost: your minutes, times your hourly rate.
Materials cost: your components added up. With no components, type your own.
Cost to make: labor cost plus materials cost.
Suggested price: cost to make, times your markup.
Wholesale price: your price, minus your wholesale discount.
Profit on each sale: what you keep when it sells online or in person, wholesale, or on consignment. Enter a Consignment commission % to see consignment profit after the shop's cut.

Everything updates as you type.

Sandbox Mode

The Pricing Calculator is completely non-persistent. Nothing you do here is saved — no products are created or modified. The one exception is Create template, which keeps your steps as a template. When you leave the page, all inputs are cleared. This makes it a safe space to explore pricing strategies before applying them to actual products.