06 · Costing

Costing suite

Size it → cost it → price it. Mold-fill sizing runs the mold engine's own math with no recipe loaded; cost-per-bar counts every cost in the batch — labor, packaging, overhead — and divides by good bars only; the wholesale ladder prints discount off retail and the margin it really leaves, side by side. Prices preloaded are SAMPLE craft-supplier prices for checking the math — a math tool, your numbers.

Length

Width

Height

Cavities

Bars from this mold (0 = cavities)

Cure water loss

Length unit

Fill

In batch

Price paid

Amount bought

$4.20

In batch

Price paid

Amount bought

$1.75

In batch

Price paid

Amount bought

$1.60

In batch

Price paid

Amount bought

$1.32

In batch

Price paid

Amount bought

$0.09

In batch

Price paid

Amount bought

$2.38

Flat cost / batch

$0.60

Packaging / bar

Labor / batch

min

Labor rate

$/hr

Overhead / batch

Bars poured

Shrink / unusable bars

Target margin

Cure carrying rate / yr (0 = off)

Cure weeks

Channel fee (0 = off)

Channel fee fixed / sale

Retail price

Floor margin (flag below)

Retail and cost flow in from step 2 (cost $2.59 at the suggested retail $7.40). Your direct margin at this retail is 65.0%, and the Wholesale tier at 50% off would price at $3.70.

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