Set Up for One Person at Home
Choose the home-based business setup and Customakr starts you with figures that suit working from home: no rent, about 1,500 working hours a year with 60% of them on paying work, and a lower overhead than a rented shop. They are starting points to edit, not measurements.
It also suggests the machines home shops often begin with, such as an FDM printer, a tabletop CO2 or diode laser, a MIG welder, a band saw, a drill press and a tabletop CNC router.
Charge for Your Time and Your Machines
Underpricing usually comes from leaving out your own hours and the cost of the machine. Customakr prices your labour at a rate that covers what you want to earn, and each machine at what an hour of it really costs, including the electricity it uses at your real rate.
- Snap a photo of your power bill to fill in your electricity rate
- Material by weight, length, area, sheet or each
- A target margin, a minimum order charge and a rush premium
- Quotes in five languages and more than 100 currencies
Look Professional From Day One
Send a clean quote with your logo (Maker and above) and an approval link, and your customer accepts with their name. Invoices can be paid by card into your own Stripe account. An Operations Board shows what is late or waiting on you, and a job board keeps every order in view.
Plans That Fit a Small Start
Free gives you 3 quotes a month on one machine. Maker is $5 a month (or $50 a year) for unlimited quotes, your logo and card payments on one machine. Solo is $19 a month for up to five machines, payment reminders, tools and stock libraries. You can try everything without an account first.