Each project: an itemized bill of materials (yarn, resin, wood, findings) with per-unit cost. Add labor minutes × your rate. Add overhead share. Get actual cost. Compare to what you're charging. Mark real-time expenses as you work — so you know by the end whether you should price up, price down, or stop making this particular thing.
Per-project: ingredient / material / component with quantity + per-unit cost. Pull from a shared material library so you enter costs once. Waste % per material.
Start / stop timer as you work. Or manually log minutes after. Multiply by your hourly rate. Per-stage breakdown (prep, assembly, finish, packaging) so you see where the time goes.
Materials + labor + overhead share (utilities, tools, workspace amortization). Real actual cost per unit. Compare to your asking price. See your margin in %, not just $.
Make the same candle 30 times. See how cost moved (material price shifts, your speed improving). Catch silent margin erosion before it wipes out a season.
Given a target margin, what should the retail be? Given a retail, what does your margin have to be to make it? Two-way pricing tool.
Flask + SQLite. Runs on a laptop. Materials library stays yours. Not a handmade-platform with 'insights' it sells back to you.
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Handmade-product cost calculator. AI suggests retail pricing.
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