Free print-on-demand profit calculator for Etsy, Redbubble, and Printful sellers. Enter product type, base/blank cost, sale price, platform and payment fees, shipping, and ad spend; outputs profit per sale and margin percentage.
Use before publishing a new print-on-demand listing, or whenever your print provider changes its base costs or a marketplace changes its fee schedule.
Spreadsheets can model this, but this calculator gives an instant per-sale margin the moment you change price or fees, without building formulas yourself.
Revenue = sale price + shipping charged to the buyer.
Fees = (revenue × platform fee %) + (revenue × payment processing %) + processing flat fee + (revenue × ad spend %).
Profit = revenue − base/blank cost − actual shipping cost − fees; margin % = profit ÷ revenue × 100.
Start from your blank/base cost, add the platform's percentage fee, payment processing, actual shipping cost, and any ad spend, then set a price that leaves the margin you need. This calculator does that math live so you can test prices before publishing a listing.
Print-on-demand blanks and printing cost more per unit than bulk-ordered inventory, and platform + payment fees are charged on every sale regardless of size. Without volume discounts, a healthy percentage margin on a single low-cost item can still be a small dollar amount.
Base cost is what the print provider charges to produce the blank item (shirt, mug, poster); shipping cost is what they charge to ship it to the customer, which is often separate from — and can be higher than — what you charge the buyer for shipping.
It can be, especially on marketplaces like Etsy where organic search traffic exists, but ad spend directly eats into margin as modeled here. Set ad spend to 0% first to see your organic-only margin, then test a realistic ad percentage to see how much room you actually have to spend on customer acquisition.
입력
T-shirt, $10 base cost, $24.99 price, $4.99 shipping charged, $4 actual shipping, default fees.
출력
Revenue $29.98 → fees ~$2.88 → profit ~$13.10/sale (43.7%).
Revenue ($29.98) minus base cost ($10), actual shipping ($4), and fees (~$2.88 from platform, processing, and 0% ads) leaves about $13.10 profit per shirt.