Built for handmade businesses

Know exactly what every piece costs you — and what to charge for it

MakerMetric brings your materials, labour, packaging, production and sales into one place. Cost a product in minutes, price it with a real margin, and stop selling your work for less than it's worth.

No card needed to start. Prices in AUD.

What MakerMetric does

It's a costing and inventory system for people who make things by hand — not a generic accounting tool. Everything is built around how a small batch actually gets made.

Know what's in stock

Log every material you buy, what it cost and how much is left — down to the gram, metre or millilitre.

Cost every product

Build a recipe per product and let MakerMetric add up materials, labour, packaging and wastage.

Price with margin

Set a target margin and get a recommended retail price, plus wholesale and market-day options.

Track production

Confirm a batch and your material stock drops while finished stock goes up, automatically.

Record sales

Every sale keeps the true cost of the piece you sold, so profit is real, not estimated.

See the numbers

Profitability, stock value, wastage and top materials in one overview whenever you need it.

How it helps

Most makers don't have a pricing problem — they have a costing problem. Fix the cost and the price follows.

Without a system

  • You buy in bulk but make in small batches, so the cost of one piece is a mystery.
  • Prices are set by feel, so some lines quietly lose money on every sale.
  • Materials run out mid-batch because nobody noticed the stock level dropping.
  • The spreadsheet is out of date the moment a supplier changes their price.

With MakerMetric

  • Every purchase becomes a true cost per gram, metre or unit — freight included.
  • Each product shows exactly what it costs and what to charge for your target margin.
  • Stock updates as you produce, so you reorder before you run out.
  • One source of truth that stays current, with full history of what changed and why.

How it works

Four steps from a shelf of materials to a price you can defend.

1

Add your materials

Enter what you bought, the pack size and the total cost — MakerMetric works out the rest.

2

Build your recipes

Attach the materials, time and packaging that go into each product you make.

3

Check cost and price

See cost per unit, profit per sale and a recommended price for your target margin.

4

Produce and sell

Confirm batches to move stock, then record sales to see the profit you actually made.

Who it's for: resin and rope bowls, candles, bags and pouches, small-batch homewares — if you make it, MakerMetric can cost it.

Inside the app

No spreadsheets and no formulas to break. This is what you actually see when you cost a piece, set a price and check your stock.

Costing

Every material, minute and packet, added up for you

Open a product and MakerMetric shows what one piece really costs — materials at your latest prices, labour at your hourly rate, packaging and wastage included. Change a supplier's price once and every product that uses it updates, so the figure you quote a stockist is always current.

  • Cost per piece and per batch, side by side
  • Wastage and packaging counted, never forgotten
  • Profit per sale at the margin you actually want
makermetric · costing
Large Rope Bowl
Recipe · batch of 1
Costed
Eco resin
480 g
$4.32
Pigment
6 g
$0.54
Packaging
box + tag
$0.85
Labour
45 min @ $30/hr
$22.50
Wastage
5%
$1.41
True cost per piece$29.62
Recommended price · 50% margin$59.25
Profit per sale$29.63
Pricing

A price you can defend, not a number you guessed

Set your target margin and MakerMetric works backwards to a retail price, then shows wholesale and market-day levels that still leave a profit. You can see at a glance whether a discount is worth taking or quietly eating your income.

  • Retail, wholesale and market pricing from one cost
  • Rounding that matches how you like to price
  • Warnings when a product is priced below cost
makermetric · pricing
What to charge
Large Rope Bowl · cost $29.62
Cost-covering$35.55
Covers materials and time only
Recommended retail$59.25
50% margin at your target
Wholesale$44.45
Still profitable for stockists
Prices rounded to your preferred ending — set once in pricing settings.
Inventory

Stock you can trust, without counting jars on the shelf

Every purchase adds to your stock and every batch takes it away, so the quantity on screen is what's really left. Low-stock flags give you time to reorder before a market weekend, and the history shows exactly what moved, when and why.

  • Reorder alerts before you run out mid-batch
  • Full movement history for every material
  • Stock value of what's on your shelf right now
makermetric · inventory
Raw materials
Stock value $342.10
2 low
Eco resin
3.2 kg of 5 kg
In stock
Pigment — terracotta
42 g
In stock
Jute rope 6 mm
8 m
Reorder
Kraft gift boxes
4 units
Reorder

Stop guessing what your work is worth

Try MakerMetric free for 14 days. Add a few materials and one product, and you'll know your true cost per piece in minutes.