Estimates you can understand

Know your numbers.
Choose your price.

Try both a selling price you already have and a price close to your break-even estimate. Change the assumptions to match your business.

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Illustrative rates, no input tax credit or automated GST compliance. Use your verified provider fee schedule. Shipping is treated as your cost, not a separately collected charge.

For your working day

Make the estimate useful for your own product.

Begin with the selling price you know, or use the break-even result as a starting point. Then change one cost at a time rather than guessing at a single “perfect” number.

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Count the work inside the product

Include materials, your time, overhead and packaging in the cost input. For a personalised item, account for the extra making or proof work in the price you evaluate. A busy order is not necessarily a profitable one.

Avoid counting delivery twice

This version treats shipping and the returns reserve as your cost; it does not add a customer-paid shipping charge to revenue. If delivery is already in your cost total, do not enter it again.

Use the actual provider fee schedule

Both a percentage charge and a fixed charge for each payment can matter, especially on a low-value item. The fee-tax input applies to the illustrative online payment service and MakeMyWeb charges. The platform percentage uses revenue before product tax.

Understand what is outside the estimate

Input tax credit, GST registration/classification, partial refunds, chargebacks and actual courier adjustments need a richer accounting treatment. Have a qualified adviser review tax decisions; this tool does not prepare a return.

Three questions to ask after calculating.

  1. What happens if my packaging costs ₹20 more? Increase the cost input and compare profit.
  2. What happens if the courier charge changes? Adjust the shipping reserve before promising a delivered price.
  3. What happens if I discount by 10%? Test the discounted selling price while keeping your production costs honest.

Your break-even price covers the costs and fee assumptions entered; it is not a target profit. Choose a price that fits your work, business and customers, then compare estimates against realised costs after orders are fulfilled.

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