Pricing clarity for maker businesses

Turn Pricing into Profit.

Maker Forge helps makers price materials, labor, fees, and sales channels into every product, so you know what you earn before the next order.

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Built for Etsy sellers, 3D printing shops, laser businesses, woodworkers, and small maker brands.

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Maker Forge dashboard preview showing time value, store goals, money flow, and profit by sales channel.
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Try the free Etsy Profit Calculator before you sign up.

Enter price, material cost, labor, and fees to see real product profit before you list.

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The pricing problem is easy to miss

A product can sell well and still underpay the shop.

Many makers start with a fair-sounding price and a rough sense of what supplies cost. As orders, fees, materials, and repeated parts pile up, it gets harder to know whether a popular product is actually profitable.

Material prices change after you set a price

New listings copy old guesses

Repeated parts make the math harder to check

Marketplace fees shrink what you actually keep

Busy shop owners forget the real cost to make

Etsy integration

Already selling on Etsy? Connect your shop.

Import your Etsy orders into Maker Forge, match listings to your products, and see what each sale actually earned after product costs, labor, and marketplace fees.

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Orders
Products
Profit
  • Import Etsy orders
  • Match listings to Maker Forge products
  • Analyze real sale profitability
How Maker Forge works

From product costs to better decisions.

01

Add Your Products

Add the materials, components, labor, and production time that go into what you make.

02

Connect Where You Sell

Bring sales into Maker Forge, including orders from connected platforms like Etsy.

03

See the Real Numbers

Understand costs, fees, profit, margins, and what your time is actually earning.

04

Make Better Decisions

Know what to charge, what needs attention, and which products deserve more of your time.

What this does for your shop

Clear answers without spreadsheet gymnastics.

Maker Forge keeps the moving parts of pricing in plain language: what it costs, where the money goes, what changed, and which products need another look.

Know if the price works

Keep each product's price, costs, notes, contacts, materials, labor, parts, and margin together so you can see whether it is actually worth selling.

Stop losing track of material costs

Save what supplies cost, who you buy them from, and how prices change so old estimates do not quietly eat into new orders.

Give your time a real value

Turn design, cutting, assembly, finishing, packing, and other shop work into product cost without needing a complicated payroll setup.

See what you keep after fees

Compare direct sales, marketplaces, wholesale, and custom work so fees and discounts do not surprise you after the order is done.

Reuse costs instead of redoing math

Cost a repeated part once, attach it wherever it is used, and update many products from one place when something changes.

Catch weak margins early

Get a plain view of products that need attention, missing cost details, material exposure, and margin health before profit slips away.

Make your time count

Your time is one of your most limited resources.

Revenue can tell you what sold. Profit tells you what worked. Maker Forge helps you understand which products are actually worth making again.

So when you have an hour in the shop, you have better information about where to spend it.

Proof before the next sale

See where your money goes before it goes missing.

Maker Forge turns product costing into a practical shop dashboard: spot weak margins, compare selling channels, track material price changes, and decide which products deserve your time.

Maker Forge product profit preview showing target price, cost to make, gross profit, best channel, weakest channel, materials, labor, and marketplace fees.
Built for makers

Maker Forge is built for owners who need answers, not another complicated system to manage.

Built for one-person shops
No bookkeeping knowledge required
Understand every product
Price confidently
Who it's for

Made for shops where the person setting the price is also doing the making.

Etsy sellers
Woodworkers
Laser engraving shops
3D print sellers
CNC makers
Craft businesses
Custom gift shops
Small production studios
Founder

Why I Built Maker Forge

After years of running my own woodworking business, I realized I was making pricing decisions with incomplete information.

I could see sales.
I could see expenses.

But I couldn't easily answer:

"What did I actually earn for the time I spent making this?"

Maker Forge is the software I wished I had years ago.

Built by a maker, for makers.

— Jeremy Randall

Contact

Have a question?

Maker Forge is being built alongside real makers. If you have a question, feedback, or something you wish it could do, we'd like to hear it.

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Plans

Choose the workspace that helps you price with more confidence.

Every tier is built around the same goal: clearer costs, better pricing decisions, and fewer quiet margin surprises.

Start here

Free

$0
for trying Maker Forge

A practical starter workspace for seeing where a few products really stand.

  • 1 store
  • 25 products
  • 10 materials
  • 10 contacts
  • 5 time categories
  • 5 build parts
  • Product costing, labor, notes, and margin checks
Growing shopsMost Popular

Pro

$7.50/month
for active maker businesses

The full workspace for shops that need pricing they can trust across more products, parts, suppliers, and sales channels.

  • Unlimited stores, products, materials, contacts, time categories, build parts, and sale channels
  • Full cost breakdowns so you can explain every price
  • Profit comparison for direct, marketplace, wholesale, and custom sales
  • Margin dashboard, missing-cost warnings, and product watchlists
  • Material supplier tracking and cost history
Early-access offer

Founder

$149 one-time
one-time founding member access

Pay once and keep access to Maker Forge as it grows.

  • Lifetime access to Pro features
  • Future feature upgrades
  • Founding Member badge
  • Help shape product direction

Founder pricing is available while Maker Forge is in its early stage and will not be offered forever.

Learn about Founding Membership →

Feature comparison

Compare the practical shop questions each workspace can help answer before signing in.

Stores

Keep separate shops, brands, product lines, or sales operations from getting tangled together.

Free1
ProUnlimited
FounderUnlimited
Products

See each item you sell with the pricing details that decide whether it earns enough.

Free25
ProUnlimited
FounderUnlimited
Materials

Know what supplies, components, ingredients, or raw goods cost before they reduce profit.

Free10
ProUnlimited
FounderUnlimited
Contacts

Keep customers, suppliers, collaborators, and wholesale buyers connected to the work they affect.

Free10
ProUnlimited
FounderUnlimited
Time categories

Put a fair cost on design, cutting, assembly, finishing, packaging, and other shop time.

Free5
ProUnlimited
FounderUnlimited
Build parts

Cost repeated parts once so shared components stay consistent across your catalog.

Free5
ProUnlimited
FounderUnlimited

Stop wondering if your products are profitable.

Start pricing with confidence today.