Macrame Pricing Calculator — Cord, Hours & Etsy Profit per Piece
Price macrame wall hangings and plant hangers: cord by the meter, dowel or ring and your knotting hours, then Etsy fees, postage and a target-margin price.
By Marginory teamContent reviewed
Production cost
meters, including fringe trim
Cost per sellable piece: $39.00
Order
This order
Price per piece for a target margin
US Etsy fees: 6.5% transaction and 3% + $0.25 processing on item + shipping, $0.20 listing fee per piece sold. Target-margin prices assume a one-piece order without Offsite Ads.
Cord is cheap, knots take hours
Even premium cotton cord rarely costs more than a few dollars per piece. The time to knot, comb and trim is what sets the price. If you pay yourself nothing, the profit shown is really your wage.
Worked example with the default inputs
| Line | Normal sale | Offsite Ads sale (15%) |
|---|---|---|
| Buyer pays ($55.00 + $0.00 shipping) | $55.00 | $55.00 |
| Etsy fees | −$5.68 | −$13.93 |
| Cost per piece | −$39.00 | −$39.00 |
| Postage + packaging | −$9.00 | −$9.00 |
| Profit (margin) | $1.33 (2.4%) | -$6.92 (-12.6%) |
For a 40% margin on a one-piece order with these costs, the price would need to be about $95.94. The defaults are illustrative; replace them with your own supplier prices and timed production.
Make the hours pay
Lower the hours field to see how much a faster pattern raises profit, or raise the price to see what buyers would need to accept. A PDF pattern has no per-sale labor; compare it with the digital product calculator.
Sources and assumptions
US Etsy fees from Etsy's fee policy. Sales tax, currency conversion and Etsy Ads you buy yourself are not modeled. Default material prices are illustrative, not market quotes. How these estimates work.
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Review the market, fee bases and exclusions shown with this tool. Published rates and illustrative cost inputs have different certainty. Compare your breakdown with an actual order statement. Sources and methodology.