Where to start, and what the numbers mean.
You do not need every step. Add a product, check an order if it helps, record production, then see what changed.
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Price one print in the free calculator, or start a selling workflow by adding one Product. A name is enough to begin.
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Add a product, optionally check an order, record production, then see what changed. A printed dragon shows how the steps fit.
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Match the job. Price one print in Print Profit, or follow add a product, check an order, record production, and see what changed.
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The shop loop is add a product, optionally check an order, record production, then see what changed. Other tools answer a specific question. You can stop at any step.
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Save products you will print, quote, or sell more than once. Skip one-off experiments unless you know you will reuse them.
Where to begin: add a product, then compare estimates with real production.
Cost, price, profit, margin, and marketplace fees.
Slicer grams, plates, print time, and failed prints.
Why color changes use extra filament.
Quotes, marketplaces, discounts, rush, wholesale, deadlines.
Products saved to your account, and how to import old browser copies.
Printer-hours, capacity, and what is worth the machine time.
Customer quotes, shop worksheets, snapshots, and PDF.
Cost, price, profit, margin, and marketplace fees.
Pricing & Profit
Cost is what it takes to make the print. Price is what you charge. Profit is what is left after costs and marketplace fees. PrintProfit3D estimates those from the numbers you enter — not from past sales.
Pricing & Profit
In PrintProfit3D, margin is a share of the selling price, not extra added on top of cost. Markup is the other idea. The app asks for margin.
Pricing & Profit
Enter the money that belongs to this print: filament, electricity, packaging, and labor if you count your time. Use 0 where a cost does not apply. Do not type the same expense twice.
Pricing & Profit
Shop fees come out of the selling price. They are not added on top. A $20 listing on Etsy is not $20 in your pocket.
Slicer grams, plates, print time, and failed prints.
Filament & Print Costs
Use your slicer’s estimated filament weight for the print or plate you are about to run. That is “Filament used,” not the weight of the whole spool.
Filament & Print Costs
Units per plate is how many sellable pieces fit on one build plate. Tools plan whole plates, so a 101-piece order can produce more than 101 prints.
Filament & Print Costs
Print time is the slicer’s estimate for that plate. Setup/changeover is the extra minutes to start the next plate — unload, swap filament, scrape, restart. Use 0 if you do not count that.
Filament & Print Costs
Some prints fail. Failure & Waste spreads that cost onto the ones you can actually sell. It is not “add 10% to the sticker price and call it done.”
Why color changes use extra filament.
AMS & Multicolor
Color changes throw away filament that never stays in the model. The plate can use far more plastic than the figurine looks like it should.
AMS & Multicolor
Those are the usual names for filament that never becomes the part: color-change dump, and the extra tower your slicer prints to stabilize the next color.
Quotes, marketplaces, discounts, rush, wholesale, deadlines.
Selling & Orders
Same product, several shops, side by side. The useful number is take-home after fees — not the listing price.
Selling & Orders
Someone wants many of the same print. Batch Order Calculator prices that order — plates, time, fees, and a quote for the whole batch.
Selling & Orders
Cutting the price does not make filament or power cheaper. Bulk Discount Calculator checks whether the sale still hits your minimum margin.
Selling & Orders
A rush fee raises what you charge. It does not add printer hours. Check whether the deadline even fits, then price the inconvenience.
Selling & Orders
Order Capacity & Deadline is a yes/no on pooled printer hours versus the due date. It is not a job queue.
Selling & Orders
A shop that resells your print has to buy it cheap enough to mark up. Wholesale Pricing protects your profit and leaves them a margin too.
Products saved to your account, and how to import old browser copies.
Saved Products
Save a product on your account, then open, edit, or duplicate it. Type the numbers into a calculator when you need a price. The calculator still does its own job.
Saved Products
Account products and production history are saved to your account. Calculator drafts stay in this browser.
Saved Products
Export account products downloads your account catalog. Import old saved products copies a legacy browser library into the account and leaves the browser copies in place.
Printer-hours, capacity, and what is worth the machine time.
Print Farm & Production
Three tools, three questions. Manager assigns jobs to named printers. Bulk Order Planning turns one large order into plates and hours. Print Farm Capacity asks how much room the whole farm still has.
Print Farm & Production
Printer-hours are machine time. Calendar days are how long that work takes on the clock, given how many printers you run and how many hours a day they print.
Print Farm & Production
Farms do not print 100% of every available hour. Print Farm Capacity defaults to 85% practical utilization so there is room for setup, failed prints, and downtime. You can change that percent.
Print Farm & Production
Product Profitability ranks Saved Products by profit per unit, margin, and profit per printer-hour. It uses the numbers you saved — not how many you sold.
Customer quotes, shop worksheets, snapshots, and PDF.
Quotes & Reports
Quotes & Production Reports makes a quote. It is not an invoice, receipt, or payment. Nothing has been charged.
Quotes & Reports
Customer Quote is what you send the buyer. Production Report is your shop worksheet. Switch modes without losing the form; do not send the worksheet as the quote.
Quotes & Reports
Importing a Bulk Order Plan copies the numbers as they are right now. Later plan changes do not rewrite this report until you import again. Print / Save as PDF uses your browser’s print dialog.