{"product_id":"craftforge-handmade-printables-maker-business-command-center","title":"CraftForge — Handmade, Printables \u0026 Maker Business Command Center","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMake it. Price it. Get paid for it.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCraftForge\u003c\/strong\u003e is a complete, private, \u003cstrong\u003e100% offline\u003c\/strong\u003e operating system for a maker business — handmade goods, made-to-order commissions, cut files and printables. \u003cstrong\u003e15 integrated modules and 39 tools in a single HTML file\u003c\/strong\u003e, plus a live 11-sheet Excel workbook. Nothing installs. No account. No cost, price or takings figure ever leaves your computer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eWhat an hour at your bench actually pays\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaterials times two and a half is how almost every maker is taught to price, and it hides the only number that matters.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe worked example inside sells an engraved ornament at \u003cstrong\u003e$6.50\u003c\/strong\u003e. Materials are $1.17, so on that rule it looks like a healthy product. Take off the $1.07 marketplace fee, the $0.39 of packaging, the $1.35 of postage absorbed on free shipping and the sixteen minutes of making, finishing and packing, and it pays \u003cstrong\u003e$9.18 an hour\u003c\/strong\u003e — below the floor that maker set for themselves. It is also their best seller at 885 a year, and \u003cstrong\u003e27% of every hour that reaches the bench\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eThe ceiling you hit before you run out of customers\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eA handmade thing is bound by hands. The sample workshop works 26 hours a week for 48 weeks, of which \u003cstrong\u003e78% reaches a bench\u003c\/strong\u003e — the rest is photography, listings, messages, ordering and the post office, none of it optional. That is 979 bench hours a year and 854 are already used.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the mix being sold, every remaining hour is worth about $32. So filling \u003cem\u003eevery last one\u003c\/em\u003e would add \u003cstrong\u003e$3,994\u003c\/strong\u003e. That is the whole of the growth available from selling more of the same thing, and no amount of marketing moves it. December alone already needs 135 bench hours where a month holds 88 — which is what the stock in the workshop actually is.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eTwenty-one screens\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe catalogue —\u003c\/strong\u003e Product Register, where minutes mean making, finishing, packing, the failure rate and the photography time spread across everything a product will ever sell · \u003cstrong\u003eTrue Hourly Rate\u003c\/strong\u003e (the flagship) · \u003cstrong\u003eCapacity Ceiling\u003c\/strong\u003e · \u003cstrong\u003eDigital vs Handmade\u003c\/strong\u003e, putting a cut file and a bench on one honest axis: every hour ever put in, against everything it has returned.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMaking it —\u003c\/strong\u003e Materials and Suppliers, where a ten per cent rise is costed across every recipe it appears in · Time Study · Batching, with the run size a setup starts paying for itself from · Waste and Seconds, by reason, in materials and in hours.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSelling it —\u003c\/strong\u003e Fees and Marketplaces, showing the same product sold three ways · \u003cstrong\u003eShipping\u003c\/strong\u003e, where free postage is priced as the discount it is · Pricing, laying every formula you were taught beside the answer · Listings and Photos · \u003cstrong\u003eMarkets and Fairs\u003c\/strong\u003e, costing the whole day against what the same hours would have returned at the bench.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe business —\u003c\/strong\u003e Custom Orders, separating the estimating problem from the scope problem · Stock On Hand, with cover measured against the months it is actually for rather than an average month · Seasonality, and the wall in the middle of it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eEight calculators\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eTrue hourly rate · Price it properly, working the marketplace cut back out of the price rather than adding it on top · Batch saving · Free postage, and the sales drop charging it could survive · Capacity ceiling · Digital file payback · Craft fair · Custom order.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eTwelve copy-ready pieces\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe title formula · the description that answers the five questions every buyer asks · the FAQ block · the custom-enquiry reply with its revision limit · the “yes, but” reply · the dispatch note · the card for the box · the review ask · the restock notice · the wholesale line sheet · the craft fair application · the price rise notice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eWhat you get\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eCraftForge-Handmade-Maker-Command-Center.html\u003c\/strong\u003e — the whole application, one file, offline\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eCraftForge-Companion-Workbook.xlsx\u003c\/strong\u003e — 11 live formula-driven sheets\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eQuick-Start-Guide.html\u003c\/strong\u003e — eight steps to your first real number\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eHow-To-Use-Guide.html\u003c\/strong\u003e — the full manual, screen by screen\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eREADME.txt\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eLICENSE.txt\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGenuinely private.\u003c\/strong\u003e It makes no network requests of any kind. Your supplier prices, costs, minutes and takings stay in your own browser and are never transmitted anywhere.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHonest by design.\u003c\/strong\u003e Materials are never typed against a product — they come off a recipe, so one supplier price rise moves every product that material appears in. A digital file is given no hourly rate, in the app and in the workbook alike, because it has no minutes per unit. And where a number could only be guessed at — what a price rise does to your volume, what fixing a photograph is worth — the item is listed with nothing against it rather than a figure somebody invented.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCraftForge performs arithmetic on figures you supply. It is not legal, tax, insurance, trading-standards or product-safety advice. 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