The sample numbers below are placeholders so the form is not empty. They are not LaserNook prices, and they are not a quote for any machine or blank. Replace every field with your own.

Type the material cost of one finished piece you can sell. If you scrap blanks, put that in here: a blank that costs a dollar, with one ruined piece in four, is closer to $1.33 of material per sale. Design time is not a separate line. Add those minutes, or fold that pay into the hourly rate, if the job is a one-off and not a repeat coaster.

Job cost

Material cost (USD)

The blank, plus scrap you already know about. Not a shopping-cart total for the whole pack unless you sell the whole pack as one item.

Machine time (minutes)

Engrave or cut time for this one piece. A six-minute coaster is 6. A tumbler with a long wrap may be much more.

Hourly rate (USD per hour)

A shop rate you choose. Some makers include electricity and wear only. Others include their time. LaserNook does not set this number.

Packaging (USD)

Box, mailer, tape, filler, and label for this piece. Leave postage out if you charge it on its own.

Price rules

Fees (percent of the selling price)

Add the percents that come off the sale. A marketplace fee and a card fee both count if both are taken from the buyer's payment. This form uses one combined percent.

Markup (percent of job cost)

What you want left, after fees, on top of the job cost. 50 means you want the cost back plus half of that cost.

How the price is built

Job cost is the blank, the machine time, and the packaging. Machine time is the minutes divided by 60, multiplied by your hourly rate. Markup is applied to that job cost. Fees are a slice of the price the buyer pays, so the suggested price has to be a bit higher than cost-plus-markup. Otherwise the fee comes out of the pay you meant to keep.

Suggested price = (job cost × (1 + markup ÷ 100)) ÷ (1 − fees ÷ 100)

The page rounds the suggested price and the fee to the cent, so a line can be off by a penny. That is shop math, not a tax form. It ignores sales tax, shipping you charge separately, and any fee that is a flat amount per order rather than a percent.

Nothing you type is uploaded. The calculator is a script in this page. See the privacy note.

When you are pricing a real blank, the starter kit guide is the list of what that material field is usually made of: a coaster, a keychain, or a tumbler, plus the honeycomb and tape around the job.