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How It Works

Everything the toolkit does, start to finish.

Quick Start

Price a job on the Calculator — it's free, no sign-in. Enter filament grams, time, and your rates; it gives you a suggested price.
Start your free trial to unlock the rest — tap any locked door and create an account (email + password). You get 7 days free.
Add your materials — filament, hardware, paint, anything — with what you paid and how much you have.
Add products and (optionally) a recipe linking the materials each one uses.
Build & sell — building deducts materials and adds finished units; selling draws them down. Your dashboard tracks the value.

🧮 The Calculator

Price any print by its real costs. Enter the filament used (in grams), your filament price per kg, print time, and your shop rates. It adds up material, electricity, labour, and printer wear, applies a failure buffer, then your profit markup — and shows a suggested price plus a margin guide.

The calculator is a standalone estimator — it doesn't touch your inventory. Use it to quote any job, even materials you don't stock.

🧵 Materials

Your raw stock — anything you use to make things. Add each material with a name, a unit (g, ml, each, sheet…), how much you have on hand, what you paid, and a low-stock threshold.

📦 Products & Recipes

Products are your finished goods. Add one with a sale price and how many are ready now. Then optionally give it a recipe — the materials and amounts used to build one unit.

Builds and sells are logged, so your material drawdown always traces back to what you made.

🧾 Invoices

Turn a calculator price into a clean invoice under your own business name. Enter your business name, location/contact, an optional logo URL, your customer, and the item. Generate, then Print / Save as PDF.

Your business details (and logo) save on your device, so you only enter them once.

📊 The Dashboard

Your home base. Two snapshot cards show the total retail value of finished goods you have ready to sell, and how many materials are running low. The doors below take you to each tool.

Common Questions

Is anything free?
Yes — the calculator is always free, no account needed. Materials, products, live prices, g-code upload, and invoices are premium.
How much is premium?
7 days free, then $10/month. Cancel anytime.
Will other people see my inventory?
No. Your materials, products, and recipes are private to your account.
Do invoices show J&J Workshop?
No — invoices use your own business name and logo, never ours.
What g-code files work?
Sliced files from PrusaSlicer, OrcaSlicer, SuperSlicer, Cura, and Bambu Studio. It reads grams and print time automatically.
Open the Toolkit →
Free calculator, always. Premium — 7-day trial, then $10/mo.