Quoting for shops that cut material
You priced the steel.
Did you price the remnant?
KraftyQuote builds the whole cost stack — bar stock yield, kerf loss, belt and consumable burn, machine hours, scrap allowance and the marketplace's cut — then solves for the price that actually holds your margin. Before the first cut.
No card. No signup to run the numbers.
12 × 10½" chef knife blanks
1084 carbon steel · 1.5" × 0.125" flat bar
48" stock · 0.090" abrasive kerf
The $14 nobody costs
Selling the same knife in two places is not the same job.
Most costing tools stop at COGS and hand you one number. But a marketplace takes its cut off the top, and if you carry your show price straight onto Etsy you quietly hand back about a quarter of your margin. KraftyQuote keeps a fee profile for 28 channels and re-solves the retail price for each one.
Same blade. Same margin. Two prices.
The blade above costs $71.27 to put in a customer's hand. Holding a 45% margin means clearing $129.58 after the platform is paid — so the listing price has to move, or the margin does.
Fee profiles cover Etsy, Faire, Shopify, Amazon Handmade, Whatnot, eBay, craft shows, wholesale terms and direct invoicing.
| Channel | Fees | List at |
|---|---|---|
| Direct / show | $0.00 | $129.58 |
| Etsy | $14.10 | $143.68 |
| Wholesale, 50% | — | $259.16 |
One job, five stations
The quote doesn't stop being useful once you've sent it.
Each stage hands its output to the next, so the cost model you built to win the job is the same one that lays out the sheet, dispatches it, and decrements your stock.
KraftyQuote
Builds the cost and margin model — yield, waste, machine time, channel fees.
KraftyDesign
Generates parametric panel layouts sized for boxes, trays and knife blanks.
KraftyNest
True-shape nests those parts onto raw stock and tracks the remnant.
KraftyFlow
Dispatches the job across the shop and groups it by material batch.
KraftyStock
Offers to draw the material down from stock when a job is done, so the next quote prices real stock.
Free, no signup
Start with one material.
Each calculator runs the real yield math for a single stock size. They're free and they don't ask for an email — they're how most people find out the app exists.
Plans
Free to price your work. Pro to win the job and get paid.
Estimating and PDF exports are free, forever — free quote PDFs just carry a KraftyQuote watermark. Maker Pro is for selling: quotes your customer accepts online and pays a deposit on, your logo, invoices, unlimited saves and a year-end profit report. Workshop Suite is for cutting: your own DXF/SVG files and nesting with no part limit.
- The full cost engine: materials, machine time, labor, overhead & fees, with a suggested price
- Pricing checks: your price floors, costs you left out, and what your hours earn
- Setup time, failure allowance, rush fees, minimum orders & a quantity price table for you
- Fees for 4 sales channels (cash or direct, Square, Shopify, Etsy) plus your own custom fee, built into your price
- Quote & shop-ticket PDFs, watermarked
- 5 saved quotes, 5 materials, 5 consumables & 3 offcut remnants — synced when you sign in
- KraftyNest (sheet nesting): up to 5 different parts per nest (any quantity of each), plus 2 trial nests with more and 2 trial SVG/DXF imports
- KraftyDesign knife blanks — 29 patterns, drawn true-size to print as a template or cut
- KraftyFlow job board with job timers — synced when you sign in
- Win the job
- Quote links your customer can accept online, then pay the deposit through your own Stripe, Square or PayPal link
- No watermark — your logo on quotes and shop tickets
- Design proofs your customer approves along with the price
- Quantity price breaks shown on your customer’s quote
- See who opened and who accepted, and which quotes need a follow-up
- Get paid & keep the books
- Payments, invoices & receipts on every job on your KraftyFlow board
- Profit & tax report: profit by month, product and channel, and your Schedule C figures
- Quote & job history export (CSV)
- Work faster
- Saved products: price a line once, reuse it on any quote at today’s stock prices
- Unlimited saved quotes
- Unlimited inventory (KraftyStock): materials, consumables & remnants
- Fees for all 28 sales channels — Faire, wholesale, consignment, Whatnot & more
- Nest any number of different parts, packed by their real outlines, then download the sheet as DXF or SVG for your cutter
- Import your own DXF/SVG files, with cut, engrave & score layers kept through to the export
- KraftyDesign’s full shape set — signs with your own text, boxes, trays, flatware, brackets & more
- KraftyFlow batch view: jobs grouped by material & machine setup, so you can run them together
- Shared team accounts & multi-seat access
- White-label embeddable client quoting widget
- Priority support
Annual billing is exactly ten months' price on both paid tiers. Cancel anytime — your saved quotes stay exportable.