For homemade and cottage dog treat bakers. Enter one batch: what the ingredients cost, how many treats it makes, how many go in a bag, your packaging and your time. You get the real cost per treat and per bag, and a suggested bag price that still pays you after card or marketplace fees.
Planning estimate only. Real hourly pay = (batch revenue − fees − ingredients − packaging − overhead) ÷ hands-on hours. Not legal, licensing or pet-nutrition advice.
Price every treat recipe and bag size at once, with an ingredient price list, recipe costing, bag pricing and a sales log. Excel + Google Sheets, no macros, EXAMPLE and BLANK copies. Built and formula-tested by an AI.
See it on PayhipSellable treats = treats per batch × (1 − broken %). Bags per batch = sellable treats ÷ treats per bag.
Cost per bag = (ingredients + hours × wage + overhead) ÷ bags per batch + bag + label.
Suggested price = (cost per bag + fixed fee) ÷ (1 − fee % − margin %), rounded up.
Example with the defaults: 60 treats, 5% broken, leaves 57 sellable treats, or 4.75 bags of 12. The batch costs $5.00 + $27.00 labor + $1.00 overhead = $33.00, so $6.95 per bag, plus $0.70 packaging = $7.65. Price = ($7.65 + $0.15) ÷ (1 − 0.03 − 0.30) = $11.64, rounded up to $12.00.
Price from your own cost, not from the cheapest bag at the market. Add ingredients, packaging, your time and a share of overhead for one batch, divide by the bags it makes, then divide by (1 minus fees minus your profit margin). Many home sellers land around $8 to $14 for a bag of about a dozen biscuits, but your recipe, bag size and time decide your real number.
Usually because labor is included. A batch of biscuits can cost under $5 in ingredients and still take 1 to 2 hours to mix, roll, cut, bake, dry and bag. If you leave your wage out, a cheap price only looks profitable. Try a bigger batch size or faster shapes to lower cost per bag before cutting your price.
Often, yes. In the US, dog treats are animal food. Many states require you to register the product or the business with the state department of agriculture and to use a label with a guaranteed analysis, ingredient list, net weight and your name and address. Rules vary by state and country, so check your state's feed program before selling. This calculator is not legal advice.
Margin is profit as a share of the selling price. Markup is profit as a share of cost. This tool uses margin: price = cost divided by (1 minus margin minus fee %). A 30% margin on a $7 cost is $10, while a 30% markup would be only $9.10.
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