{"product_id":"cutforge-cut-file-digital-craft-shop-command-center","title":"CutForge — Cut File \u0026 Digital Craft Shop Command Center","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEvery listing costs. Not every listing pays.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCutForge\u003c\/strong\u003e is a complete, private, \u003cstrong\u003e100% offline\u003c\/strong\u003e operating system for a cut-file shop — SVGs, DXFs, PNGs and layered files sold on Etsy, Creative Fabrica, Design Bundles and your own store. \u003cstrong\u003e15 integrated modules and 39 tools in a single HTML file\u003c\/strong\u003e, plus a live 12-sheet Excel workbook. Nothing installs. No account. No design, order or fee figure ever leaves your computer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eThe fee percentage everybody quotes does not exist\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvery guide to selling digital files gives you one number: the platform takes about X per cent. That number is wrong for almost every order you will ever take.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarketplace fees come in \u003cstrong\u003ethree shapes\u003c\/strong\u003e: a share of the money, a fixed amount charged once per \u003cstrong\u003eorder\u003c\/strong\u003e, and a fixed amount charged once per \u003cstrong\u003efile\u003c\/strong\u003e. In the worked example inside — 654 designs, three years of orders across four channels — a one-file order pays \u003cstrong\u003e33.7%\u003c\/strong\u003e and an order of six pays \u003cstrong\u003e28.3%\u003c\/strong\u003e. Same shop, same prices, same platform. The only difference is how many files were in the basket.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAnd the fee that never dilutes\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere is the part that catches people out. The listing renewal is charged once per \u003cem\u003efile\u003c\/em\u003e, so it follows the basket up and never gets cheaper — and in the example it is \u003cstrong\u003enearly twice the flat fee\u003c\/strong\u003e. Which means the standard advice to bundle harder to save on fees is reading the wrong column. CutForge shows you the columns separately, because that is the only way the decision makes sense.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eThe price under which a file cannot make money\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eA fixed fee on a small order is not a small fee. There is a price below which a one-file order cannot keep the share you asked for \u003cem\u003ehowever many you sell\u003c\/em\u003e — and selling more only makes it worse. CutForge works out yours, for every basket size, from your own channel fees.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eDid the bundle make money, or just move it?\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eA bundle earns money and also stops people buying the files inside it singly. Measuring the second half by looking at the bundled designs alone is worthless — their sales would have fallen anyway. CutForge measures it against a \u003cstrong\u003econtrol group\u003c\/strong\u003e of comparable designs that were never bundled, over the same months, so everything that happened to the whole shop cancels out. And where your shop has no control group, \u003cstrong\u003eit says so and produces nothing\u003c\/strong\u003e rather than producing something worse.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eWhich of your five formats is anybody actually using?\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe temptation is to drop the formats nobody mentions. That is the wrong test — a format nobody mentions may be the one quietly working. CutForge asks what each machine on your buyer list \u003cstrong\u003eneeds\u003c\/strong\u003e, not what it can open. A Cricut will import a PNG and then ask the buyer to trace it by hand, which is exactly when they message you instead.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eHow much of your shop is standing on somebody else’s trademark\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eNot a probability — nobody has those, and any tool offering you one has invented it. CutForge measures how much of the money rests on a mark you do not own, which is the figure that tells you the size of what is at stake. It also shows why the lost sales from a takedown are trivial and the risk is the account.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eTwenty-one screens\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe money —\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eWhat An Order Is Worth\u003c\/strong\u003e (the flagship) · The Fee Stack · \u003cstrong\u003eThe Price Floor\u003c\/strong\u003e · Offsite Ads, which prints a break-even instead of a verdict because the verdict needs a number nobody has.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe catalogue —\u003c\/strong\u003e The Design Register · \u003cstrong\u003eBundles \u0026amp; Singles\u003c\/strong\u003e · Themes \u0026amp; Demand · \u003cstrong\u003eFormats \u0026amp; Machines\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBeing found —\u003c\/strong\u003e Listings, Views \u0026amp; Renewals, where renewals are the greater of the clock and the sales and never the sum — the mistake in every fee spreadsheet on the internet · \u003cstrong\u003eThe Six-Week Cliff\u003c\/strong\u003e, per theme and corrected for catalogue growth · How A Design Decays · \u003cstrong\u003eThe Upload Treadmill\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe risk —\u003c\/strong\u003e Trademark Exposure · Piracy \u0026amp; Takedowns · \u003cstrong\u003eIt Will Not Open\u003c\/strong\u003e, sorting every message by what would have prevented it · Reviews \u0026amp; Refunds.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eNine calculators\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn order taken apart · the price floor · an advertising rate · a bundle against the singles · what the formats cost · keeping a listing on the shelf · a design over its life · the upload treadmill · what rests on a mark. Every one opens with your own figures already in it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eTwelve copy-ready pieces\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eA listing that answers the questions before they are asked · \u003cstrong\u003ethe “it will not open” reply\u003c\/strong\u003e · a licence in plain words · quoting an extended licence · a refund given quickly · \u003cstrong\u003ea DMCA notice\u003c\/strong\u003e · appealing a takedown against you · \u003cstrong\u003ethe cull checklist to run before you list anything\u003c\/strong\u003e · a note to yourself before drawing a risky theme · a bundle listing that does not undercut the singles · and a quarterly review addressed to nobody but you.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eWhat you get\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eCutForge-Cut-File-Digital-Craft-Shop-Command-Center.html\u003c\/strong\u003e — the whole application, one file, offline\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eCutForge-Companion-Workbook.xlsx\u003c\/strong\u003e — 12 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 designs, orders and fee figures stay in your own browser and are never transmitted anywhere.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHonest by design.\u003c\/strong\u003e A fee charged per order and a fee charged per file are never added into one percentage without the split being shown. A design listed last month has not failed to sell — every share is computed only over designs old enough to have been found, at a window you set and can move. The bundle cannibalisation needs a control group and refuses to produce a figure without one. Trademark exposure is a size and never a probability. And there is deliberately no hourly rate for a single year, because the money that arrived this year came from designs drawn across three — the two figures describe different populations and dividing one by the other describes neither.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCutForge performs arithmetic on figures you supply. It is not legal, tax or accounting advice. 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