BYLD Equipment / Business Tools

Know your numbers.
Plan your production.

Estimate an embroidery job’s price, costs, and production time using your own shop assumptions. Compare head counts and keep a copy of the result.

Your job

pieces
heads
Heads sewing the same design together.

Starting values are examples. Enter the costs, timing, and setup that fit your shop.

Materials & job costs

Customer-supplied garments use $0 blank cost in this estimate.
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Work cost

$/hr
Use your loaded hourly cost, including payroll costs if applicable.
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One hourly allocation for this machine and job. Include equipment cost here if desired.

Labor uses the estimated job time and operator count from Plan Production. .

Set your price

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50% markup produces a 33.3% margin before unentered costs.
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Markup is profit divided by cost. Margin is profit divided by selling price. These percentages are different.

How the estimates work

Batches: quantity ÷ active heads, rounded up. The last partial batch still takes a full machine cycle.

Stitching: stitches ÷ (selected speed × efficiency). Color-change time, trim time, and the extra pause allowance are added to each batch.

Job time: one-time setup + all machine cycles + handling minutes per piece × quantity ÷ operators. This assumes all active heads stitch the same design together and operators share handling evenly.

Cost: materials and per-piece costs + fixed job costs + job hours × operator count × labor rate + job hours × overhead rate.

Price: cost × (1 + markup) or cost ÷ (1 − margin). A minimum job charge can raise the result. Per-piece price is rounded up to the nearest cent, then multiplied by quantity.

Daily capacity: whole, fully loaded batches that fit in one day after the entered setup time. It assumes the same job, head count, and workflow throughout that day.

Projected profit is selling price minus the costs entered here. Taxes, shipping, payment fees, rework, and other costs are included only if you enter them. Estimates are planning tools; confirm actual time with a sample sew-out.