Pricing clarity for maker businesses

Know what your products actually earn.

You know what you charge. But after materials, labor, machine time, fees, and overhead, do you know what you actually earn?

Maker Forge brings those numbers together so you can price with confidence and see which products are worth your time.

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

Material CostsLabor TrackingEtsy Fee AnalysisMargin HealthProduct Profitability
Maker Forge price advisor showing a recommended selling price of $29.50, take-home earnings of $17.77, hourly pay of $106.62, and business profit of $12.77.
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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?

Bring your real orders into the picture. Connect your Etsy shop and bring your orders into Maker Forge. Match sales to your products and see what you actually earned after product costs, fees, shipping, and other selling costs.

Etsy
Orders
Products
Profit
  • Connect Etsy.
  • Import orders.
  • Understand what you actually kept.
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How Maker Forge works

From product costs to better decisions.

Give Maker Forge the numbers behind your products. It turns them into information you can actually use.

01

Add Your Products

Add what you sell, what you charge, and what goes into making it.

02

Connect Where You Sell

Bring in sales from supported channels like Etsy, or manage orders directly in Maker Forge.

03

See the Real Numbers

See cost, profit, margin, Maker Earnings, and what your time is earning.

04

Make Better Decisions

Know what to price differently, what deserves another look, and where your time creates the most value.

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

See what remains after materials, labor, fees, machine time, overhead, and other costs.

Stop losing track of material costs

Keep the costs behind your products connected instead of rebuilding the math every time something changes.

Give your time a real value

See what you're earning for the time you spend making, not just the profit on the sale.

See what you keep after fees

Account for marketplace and selling costs so a good sale doesn't hide a weak margin.

Reuse costs instead of redoing math

Build with reusable materials and components so shared costs stay consistent across products.

Catch weak margins early

Spot products where costs, pricing, or production time are working against you.

MAKE YOUR TIME COUNT

What is an hour of your time worth?

Two products can make the same profit but take very different amounts of time to make.

Maker Forge helps you see which products make the best use of yours.

Proof before the next sale

See where your money goes before it goes missing.

A selling price doesn't tell you what you made. Maker Forge breaks the sale apart so you can see where the money went — materials, labor, machine time, overhead, fees, shipping, and other costs — and what remains for you.

Maker Forge product profitability view showing hands-on time, machine time, hourly pay, materials and making costs, marketplace fees, labor, profit, take-home earnings, and recommended prices by sales channel.
Built for makers

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

Built for one-person shops
You shouldn't need a finance department to understand whether your products make money.
No bookkeeping knowledge required
Maker Forge does the math. You provide what you know about the products you make.
Understand every product
See what each product costs, earns, and demands from your time.
Price confidently
Make pricing decisions using your actual costs instead of a guess, competitor price, or gut feeling.
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
Plans

Start free. Grow when you need more.

You don't need to choose a paid plan to find out whether Maker Forge works for your business.

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
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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 →

Start with one product.
Find out what it really earns.

You don't need perfect numbers or your entire catalog. Choose one product you know well and start there.
No credit card required.