Craft Price Calculator

This calculator is designed to give you a rough idea of how much you "should" charge for an item you have made. It takes into account how much your materials cost, how long it took you to make, and how much you want to earn per hour or your percentage markup.

It also tries to calculate how much you lose to things such as eBay fees, papyal fees and such.

Please note : We have not included any currency symbols to avoid confusion.

Your Costs

Materials Cost		The cost of your raw materials.
Time To Make		The time it took you to make this, in hours.
Your Hourly Rate		How much you want to make per hour. (defaults to adult minimum wage)
Your Markup	%	Percentage Profit

This calculator works out a practical price. It DOES NOT give you a market price, you may find the market cannot bear the price you "should" sell your item at, or you may find that your item is worth more on an artistic level than the practical cost calculated. It may help you decide if you can make a viable business from your craft.

Notes :

Material costs is marked up by 50% of your input to take account of wastage and associated costs of sourcing and buying your materials, equipment costs etc.
Percentage Markup is added to the whole price once your time and materials and calculated.
Estimated Costs are based on current published figures as of October 2014. These have not been calculated into your suggested selling price.
No estimated costs include any attempt to include your postage and packing costs.
This is intended to be a guide ONLY and Beading Lovely will not be held liable for any errors or losses caused by using this pricing guide.

Bead Blog

Our blog is updated regularly. We often feature customers projects so if you have a project you have made from our beads let us know. If your project get featured on the Bead Blog we will send you free gift.

Why not play the Beading Lovely Daily Trivia Quiz?

Monthly winners will be posted into the blog for posterity, daily winners will be posted to our facebook page.

Tax Credits and You
Here at Beading Lovely we are a little worried about how the tax credit cuts will affect our customers. Maybe you could help us understand how it will affect you by answering this simple question.

Stuck for pricing?
A little help with working out pricing.

Beading Lovely Trivia Quiz April
Congratulations to Croggy, winner of April's daily quiz, here's the full list of players.

Beading Lovely on Pinterest
Beading Lovely now have a pinterest page. If you are interested in beads and beading follow us there for regular updates.

The Daily Trivia Challenge
Our new daily trivia challenge, why not join in.

In the beginning.
Beading Lovely, an introduction.

(Older Items)