YouTube Merchandise Calculator
Work out merch profit per item and per month from your price, costs and fees, and the sales needed to break even.
What the supplier charges you.
Leave empty if the buyer pays.
Design work, samples, a shop plan.
Enter the selling price and the production cost to see the profit on each item.
Good to know
- None of the costs here are built in. Get the real production cost and fees from your supplier or print-on-demand service, and include anything you pay per item, such as shipping and packaging.
- Fees are entered as a percentage of the selling price. Add the platform fee and the payment fee together. Some services charge a fixed amount per order instead, so check how yours charges.
- The units per month are your own number. If you have sold items before, use your real monthly sales. If not, the result is a guess about demand, which no calculator can know.
- Profit here is before tax and before returns, discounts and unsold stock. Keep a margin for those.
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About the Merchandise Profit Calculator
?What the merchandise calculator does
It works out how much you make on each item you sell, after production cost, shipping you pay and fees, and what that adds up to over a month. It can also show how many sales earn back a setup cost, or reach a profit goal.
None of the costs are built in. You type the real numbers from your supplier or print-on-demand service. Everything runs in your browser.
→How to work out merch profit in 4 steps
Enter the price and the cost
What you charge, and what the supplier charges you for one item.
Add shipping and fees
Shipping you pay per item, and the platform and payment fees as a percentage of the price.
Add sales and setup
The items you expect to sell in a month, and any one-off costs such as design work.
Read the profit
Profit per item, margin, monthly profit, and the sales needed to break even or reach a goal.
✓What is in the tool
Profit per item
Price minus production cost, shipping and fees.
Margin
Profit as a percentage of the price.
Monthly profit
Profit per item times the items you sell.
Break-even sales
Items needed to earn back setup costs.
Sales for a goal
Items per month for a profit goal.
Private
Nothing you type leaves your browser.
★Examples
A T-shirt
Price 28, cost 12, shipping you pay 4, fees 8%.
Example:
Fees are 2.24, costs add up to 18.24, so each shirt makes 9.76, which is 35% of the price.
A month of sales
30 shirts a month at 9.76 profit each.
Example:
840 in sales and about 293 in profit.
Setup cost
A 150 design fee.
Example:
150 ÷ 9.76 = 15.4, so 16 sales earn it back.
♥Limits to know about
Your costs decide the result
Use real quotes and fees, not guesses.
Sales are your number
The tool cannot know how many your audience will buy.
Before tax and returns
Keep a margin for returns, discounts and tax.