Made for the wheel and the kiln
Real costs per piece, and margins that stay current as materials move.
Firing is a material, so cost it like one
Amortize a kiln load — power and kiln wear per piece — and add it alongside clay and glaze. Every piece carries its true cost, so “it only costs a few dollars of clay” stops hiding the hours and the kiln behind it.
Glaze prices moved — your margins should say so
Snap the receipt from your last materials order and Batchnook re-costs every piece at once, by the moving-average method. Set a target margin and see which pieces slipped under it the day costs changed.
Kiln loads and orders, tracked
Log a load — “threw and fired 20 mugs” — and stock plus unit cost update together. Record a wholesale or market order in a couple of taps; revenue and period COGS track themselves, never metered.
What a mug really earns you
See how much of the price the kiln and materials quietly take. Try a typical mug, then run it on your own studio's numbers.
Materials & firing per mug
- Stoneware clay$1.10
- Glaze$0.80
- Kiln firing — amortized (power + kiln wear per piece)$2.40
- What one unit costs you$4.30
Typical 2026 numbers — a starting point, not a quote. In the app, these come off your receipts and update themselves.
Your margin at this price
87%
At or above your target — healthy.
Profit per unit
$29.70
Price to hit your target
$21.50
Want this to update itself?
Batchnook keeps this margin current from a receipt photo — no re-entering numbers. Leave your email and you're on the list.
This is the same margin Batchnook shows on every product — what's left after materials and firing, as a share of price. Start free to run it on your own receipts, no card.
The long version of this arithmetic
The calculator above assembles the stack; it does not teach you where your own numbers come from. Pricing pottery and ceramics works out a per-load firing cost, the two firings most pieces take, and the survival rate from wet clay to a sellable first, all measured in your own studio. If your costs currently live in a spreadsheet or a tool you are leaving, switching costing tools without losing your numbers is the running order for moving them without breaking anything.
When you are ready to sell it
A storefront for your pots, at your own address
Costing tells you what a mug should earn. A Batchnook shop is where it earns it: your own address online, a QR code for the table, and every sale landing in the same books you priced it from.
See how a shop worksOur promises to makers
- One published price per tier, and 30 days’ notice before it changes.
- No order-line meters, ever.
- Your data walks free — export everything, always.
- Tax-ready numbers, never tax advice.
Free is real — no card, no countdown. See pricing for the whole table.