Pricing guides
The questions that come up once the calculator has given you a number. Wholesale, retail, fees, and what to do when the answer is not what you hoped.
For candle makers
How to price candles for wholesale
A shop wants to stock your candles and has asked for your wholesale prices. Exciting, and also slightly terrifying if you've never given anyone a wholesale price before. This is how to answer properly, and how to tell an order that grows your business from one that quietly costs you money.
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For soap makers
How to price soap for craft fairs
You've got a table booked, a crate of soap, and about four hours to make back the stall fee before you can start actually earning. Here's how to set prices that survive the day, and how to work out afterwards whether it was worth giving up your Saturday.
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For resin makers
How to price custom resin commissions
Somebody has messaged you asking if you can make something a bit like the one on your grid but in their wedding colours, with their flowers in it, by the eleventh. This is how to put a number on that without discovering in week three that you're working for about six dollars an hour.
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For bakers
What to charge friends and family
Somebody you love has asked for a cake. You want to say yes, you do not want to hand over a hundred and sixty dollars of your own money to do it, and now you're rewriting a text message for the fourth time. This one is about getting out of that loop.
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More guides are on the way, one craft at a time. If there is a pricing question you keep running into, it is probably next.