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Materials cost per item
You buy yarn by the skein and buttons by the bag, but you sell one scarf. This turns bulk purchases into the materials cost of one item.
Any label. It only changes how results are shown.
Thread, glue, a care label: small things you buy in bulk and can only estimate.
Which figure goes into your price?
0.00materials per finished item
How it works
- Enter each material as you buy it: the pack price and the pack size in any unit (grams, metres, pieces).
- Enter how much of that pack goes into one finished item, in the same unit.
- Add a waste percentage for offcuts, test pieces and spoilage. Five to ten percent is common for yarn and fabric; zero for countable parts.
Cost per item = pack price ÷ pack size × amount used × (1 + waste). The pack count tells you how many items one purchase makes before the first material runs out.
What to do with the number
Paste the materials total into the materials field of the craft pricing calculator ↗, then add labour, overhead and selling fees to reach a price.
The example figures are illustrative and not supplier quotes. Replace them with your own. Taxes are not calculated.