Maker Tools & Quoting SuitePricing intelligence for custom fabricators, bladesmiths, laser cutters, and woodworkers.
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🧭 How the 5 tabs fit together
1. KraftyQuote builds the cost & margin model for each item →
2. KraftyDesign generates parametric panel layouts →
3. KraftyNest nests those panels onto raw stock sheets →
4. KraftyFlow dispatches the job through your shop →
5. KraftyStock auto-decrements inventory as jobs ship.
Step 1 of 8
📋 Quote Order & Client Details
Used for the "Email Quote to Customer" option (Maker Pro / Workshop Suite).
Set it to 0 and the quote prints no deposit line at all.
🏛️ Sales Tax & ComplianceYou collect it, the state keeps it
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Combined state + local tax rate. Set to 0.00% for out-of-state / non-taxed sales.
Whether labor is taxable depends on your state — in many, including Iowa,
fabrication labor on goods you make is taxable. Check with your CPA
before excluding it; KraftyQuote only applies the choice you make here.
Tax Active
* Disclaimer: Tax rates are configured manually by the shop owner. KraftyQuote does not provide legal or tax advice. Consult your CPA for state and local nexus compliance.
📦 Quote Line Items & Batches
📐 Unit Bill of Materials (Active Item)$0.00 / unit
Universal Fabrication Presets:
🔩 Hardware & Consumables (Active Item)$0.00 / unit
⚙️ Machine Routing & Timing (Active Item)$0.00 / unit
Tip: Ensure this rate covers both your wage and unbilled shop overhead (rent, power, insurance).
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⚙️ Custom Channel Parameters
The rate is applied to the pre-tax subtotal, like a platform commission. The fixed fee is charged once per payment — twice on a deposit-and-balance job.
📊 Total Order & Batch Financials
Total Order Cost (COGS)
$0.00
Total Quote Value
$0.00
Total Net Profit
$0.00
+45% Margin
⏱️ Estimated vs. Actual Time
Total Batch Hours:0.0h est / 0.0h act
Labor Cost Difference:+$0.00
Line Item
Qty
Unit Price
Line Total
Total Order Direct Materials:
$0.00
Total Hardware & Consumables:
$0.00
Total Machine Operating Costs:
$0.00
Total Shop Labor:
$0.00
Packaging & Auxiliary Supplies:
$0.00
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Channel Platform & Processing Fees:
$0.00
Subtotal (Pre-Tax):
$0.00
Sales Tax (0.00%):
$0.00
Total Invoice / Customer Quote:
$0.00
Required Deposit (50%):
$0.00
Balance Due Upon Completion:
$0.00
Where your floors are
Out of pocketmaterials, hardware, packaging & fees$0.00
True costadds machine wear & shop overhead$0.00
Paid for your timeadds your labor — a 0% margin job$0.00
This quoteat your target margin$0.00
📐 Parametric Shape Generator
Advanced Options
Advanced Options
Advanced Options
0 = no hole.
Advanced Options
Advanced Options
Advanced Options
Food contact. Cut these from food-grade stainless — 304 or 316 — not mild steel, which rusts and has no business at a dinner table. Deburr every edge before anyone eats off it.
Want a fork or spork? They're their own shapes below — tined pieces have their own tine-root geometry, not just a relabeled spoon.
Advanced Options
Food contact. Cut from food-grade stainless (304/316), not mild steel — deburr every edge. Tine valleys are shallow and generously rounded on purpose: most of the bowl stays solid behind them, which keeps the stress at each tine root low.
Advanced Options
Food contact. Cut from food-grade stainless (304/316), not mild steel — deburr every edge. Every valley floor is rounded generously and on purpose — wider than it is deep, not an optimized-for-looks tight radius. Fewer, wider tines (3 by default) carry more material per tine than a standard 4-tine dinner fork.
Bolt Circle (optional — for a gasket or mounting flange)
Advanced Options
Mount with a screw through both holes so the hook can't rotate under load. 2 holes strongly recommended for anything but the lightest key/leash hooks.
Blunt rounded tip by design — enough blade to slide under a flap and pop it, not enough edge geometry to actually cut. Not a knife; don't grind an edge onto it.
Text (engraved)
Layout & Logo
No logo — optional PNG/JPG/SVG
Letter height is cap height — the height of a capital letter, the number sign makers quote. Lowercase ascenders and descenders reach past it. Text and logo are sent to KraftyNest as engrave operations on the plaque, the border as a score, so the cut file and the nest carry all three. Bundled fonts are open-licensed (SIL OFL); a font you drop in stays on this device and is not saved.
📋 Generated Shape Dimensions
🖥️ Flat Layout Vector Preview
6 Panels
Interlocking joint fingers compensated for material thickness and laser kerf offset.
📂 Ingest Cut Geometry & Batch Parts
⚠️ Nesting up to 5 parts is unlimited on every plan. Maker Free and Maker Pro also get 2 full-size trial nests — after that, Workshop Suite unlocks unlimited nesting, vector import and the parametric generators.
Webbing margin between adjacent parts for thermal clearance and bed stability.
🧩 True-Shape Nesting Settings
🧩 Sheet Stock & Part Queue0 parts queued
Keep-out covers the arbor hole and any bolt holes around it (0 for a solid disc). Edge margin stays clear of teeth, carbide tips or a rough rim. Add any other holes and slots in the disc below.
Measured from the top-left corner of the sheet to the middle of the hole or slot. Length is tip to tip.
Combine anything here — box panels, knife blanks, throwing stars, imported SVG/DXF shapes. Tag a part's material (wood, steel, acrylic, leather...) below its name if you're mixing materials — parts left blank, or sharing the same material tag, still nest together on one sheet; distinct tags get nested separately, each on its own sheet(s).
Editing parts or settings redraws a fast bounding-box estimate immediately. Click Run True-Shape Nesting to run the real layout engine — it respects curves, points, and concave shapes (knife blanks, throwing stars, imported DXF/SVG) rather than their rectangular bounding box. DXF export requires a completed true-shape run — it's a real cut file, so it never exports the bounding-box estimate.
KraftyFlow Shop Dispatch
Moving jobs to "Shipped / Done" triggers automated inventory decrementing scaled to batch quantities.
It allocates raw stock by used area + scrap %, adds fractional consumables (belts, epoxy, hardware), and spreads machine wear-and-tear cost by your hourly rate before applying labor.
Can I use the estimator for free?
Yes. Complete on-screen estimates—including yield, waste, your cost, and retail price—are always free to calculate, and you can download the PDFs free too. During the open beta every paid feature is unlocked for everyone.
What can I download, and what does paying change?
Everyone can download both documents: a printable Customer Quote with deposit terms, and an internal Shop Floor Ticket with cut specs and machine routing. On the free tier they carry a KraftyQuote watermark. A Maker Pro subscription removes it and puts your own logo on them, and adds emailing a quote straight to your customer.
How do I back up my shop records?
Use the "Shop Backup (.json)" button to download all inventory, quotes, and jobs to your device anytime.
👤 Maker Cloud Account & Sync
🔑 Set a New Password
Choose a new password for your KraftyQuote account.
⚙️ Shop Data Backup & Safety
Export all your shop data (raw inventory, hardware ledger, offcuts, active quotes, and jobs) to a single JSON file, or restore from a previous backup.
Accounting Export
🏠 What does it cost to keep your shop open?
Rent, insurance, software, the truck, the sandpaper. None of it belongs to any one job,
but all of it has to be paid — so it gets spread across the hours you actually bill.
Leave this at zero and your margin will read higher than it really is.
Quoting, sourcing, photos, packing and email are real hours nobody pays you for.
Most one-person shops land near 60%.
Your overhead rate
$0.00 / labor hour
What counts as overhead?
Include: shop rent or a share of your
mortgage, heat and light, insurance, software subscriptions, accounting and legal,
vehicle and fuel for supply runs, marketing and photography, licenses and dues, phone
and internet, bank fees — and consumables that aren't tied to one job: sandpaper,
gas, abrasives, finish, rags.
Leave out: machine purchase, power and
maintenance — those are already in each machine's hourly rate, and counting them here
charges for them twice. And leave out your own wages: that's your labor rate, not
overhead. Putting your pay in both is the most common way this goes wrong.
⚖️ At this price, here's what you keep
The same order, listed at $0.00
everywhere. Your costs don't change — $0.00 either
way — so the only thing moving is the platform's cut.
This is the reverse of the question the quote answers. Not "what must I charge to hold my
margin here", but "at the price this market bears, what actually lands in my pocket".
Where you sell it
They take
You keep
Margin
vs. now
🧮 What does this machine cost per hour?
What it costs you to run this machine for an hour — the price of the machine spread over its working life, plus electricity, plus the parts it wears out.
Picking one fills in typical numbers. Change any of them to match your shop.
Belts, bits, lenses, tubes, nozzles — what you replace as you run it.
On the nameplate or the power brick.
It's on your power bill. US average is about $0.16.
Also used as the "To" address when emailing a shop ticket to yourself.
This edits the current quote. A job starting months from now shouldn't promise work begins on deposit — change it here, or save new wording as your default.
Add Raw Material
Log Scrap Remnant
Linking it means a job using that material can eat this remnant before breaking a new one.