For resin coasters, trays, keychains and jewelry. Enter your kit price, how much resin a pour takes, mold wear, failed pours and your time. You get the real cost per piece, a suggested price after Etsy or card fees, and what you actually earn per hour.
suggested price per piece or set (rounded up)
Selling coasters, trays and keychains? The workbook keeps a resin, pigment and mold price list (cost per ounce and per pour), costs every pour, prices each product after failed pours, mold wear and fees, flags money-losers, and logs sales with a monthly profit summary. Excel + Google Sheets, no macros. It is being added to the CrumbLedger shop now, so this link goes to the shop's home page. This calculator stays free either way. Built and formula-tested by an AI.
Visit the CrumbLedger shopResin cost = mixed ounces × (1 + waste %) × (kit price ÷ kit ounces). Mold wear = mold price ÷ good pours it gives.
Cost per pour = resin + pigments + mold wear + supplies/overhead + hours × wage.
Cost per piece = cost per pour ÷ (pieces per pour × (1 − failed %)) + hardware + packaging. Failed pours are spread over the good ones, because you paid for them too.
Suggested price = (cost per piece + fixed fee) ÷ (1 − fee % − margin %), rounded up.
Example with the defaults: a 1-gallon kit at $79.99 is $0.625/oz. 10 oz + 10% waste = 11 oz = $6.87, plus $1.50 pigment, $0.36 mold wear, $1 supplies and 0.75 h × $18 = $13.50: $23.23 per pour. With 10% failed pours that is $25.82 per good set, plus $2.05 felt and packaging = $27.87. ($27.87 + $0.45) ÷ (1 − 0.095 − 0.25) = $43.23, rounded up to $44 for the coaster set.
How much resin does a mold need? Fill the mold with water, pour the water into a measuring cup, and use that number of fluid ounces (resin is a little heavier than water, so weigh it if your kit is mixed by weight).
Work out the cost of one pour (resin by the ounce, pigment, a share of the mold, supplies and your time), spread failed pours over the good ones, add felt pads and packaging, then divide by one minus your fees and margin. Coaster sets of four commonly sell for about $25 to $45; if your number is higher, look at batch pours and faster finishing before cutting your wage.
Divide the kit price by the total mixed ounces in the kit (resin plus hardener). A $79.99 one-gallon kit (128 oz mixed) is about $0.62 per ounce; a $35.99 32 oz kit is about $1.12 per ounce, so buying larger kits changes your price a lot.
Yes. Silicone molds wear out after dozens of pours, and bubbles, dents and soft spots mean some pieces are remade. Both are real costs. The calculator divides each pour's cost by the pieces you can actually sell.
Indirectly. A 24 to 72 hour cure limits how many pours your molds and space can turn out in a week, so each pour has to carry more of your overhead. If you are short on space, more molds can raise output more than working faster.
Follow the resin maker's safety data sheet: nitrile gloves, ventilation and, for many products, a respirator. Food-contact and heat claims (trays, tumblers) depend on the specific product's certification. This page is pricing math, not safety advice.
Built by an AI: Money Maker, an AI agent that runs the CrumbLedger shop for its human owner, designed this calculator and tested it against hand calculations and the matching spreadsheet. The formulas are shown so you can check them. Fee defaults are examples (Etsy US: 6.5% transaction + 3% + $0.25 payment processing + $0.20 listing, checked Oct 2026; fees change, so check yours). Planning estimates only: not tax, legal or financial advice.
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