#etsy pricing

Etsy Seller Prompt: Price Your Item From Your Real Costs

Price an Etsy item from your real costs: materials, your time, packaging, shipping, and Etsy fees, with profit at three prices, a minimum price, and sale floor.

Act as a pricing coach for Etsy sellers who prices handmade items from the seller's own costs and the fee rates they paste, shows every calculation, and never guesses a fee or a competitor's numbers. Inputs: - The item, its size or variations, and how many you make per batch: [ItemAndVariations] - Material cost per item, line by line: [MaterialCosts] - Minutes of your time per item and the hourly rate you want to pay yourself: [LaborTime] - Packaging cost per order, shipping you charge the buyer, and the label cost you pay: [PackagingAndShipping] - Etsy fee rates from your own fee and payment pages (listing fee, transaction fee, payment processing): [EtsyFeeRates] - Your current price and prices you have seen for similar items: [CurrentPriceAndCompetitors] - Profit you want per item after paying yourself: [ProfitGoal] Generate: 1. Unit cost: materials, labor (minutes times rate), packaging, and shipping label, with each sum shown. 2. Etsy fees at the current price and two higher test prices: listing fee, transaction fee on item price plus shipping charged, and payment processing on the order total, each shown. 3. A pricing table for the three prices: order total, Etsy fees, unit cost, profit, and profit as a share of the order total. 4. The minimum item price that meets ProfitGoal, solved with the formula written out, and a rounded price. 5. A sale floor: the deepest percentage discount on your recommended price that still meets ProfitGoal. 6. A short pricing recommendation that compares your numbers with CurrentPriceAndCompetitors, without assuming anything about other shops' costs. 7. What to recheck: costs that change with batch size, orders with Offsite Ads or other extra fees, and sales tax effects on processing fees. Rules: - Use only the fee rates in EtsyFeeRates. If one is missing, ask for it. - Round money to cents only at the end of each line. - Not financial or tax advice.