Maker Tools & Quoting SuiteQuoting and pricing for custom fabricators, bladesmiths, laser cutters, and woodworkers.
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🏭 What's in your shop?
🧭 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 by "📧 Email to Customer" on the customer quote (Maker Pro).
Shown on the customer quote. Your customer accepts the price and the design together.
Set it to 0 and the quote prints no deposit line at all.
%
A percentage of the items, shown as its own line on the quote. 0 = no rush fee.
$
A smaller order gets a small-order charge that brings it up to this amount (before tax). 0 = no minimum.
🏛️ Sales Tax & ComplianceYou collect it, the state keeps it
%
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: This is your wage for hands-on time. Rent, insurance and other overhead go in the overhead helper, and machine power is already in the machine rate.
mins
Time spent once, however many you make: drawing the file, setting up the jig, the test cut. It is charged at your labor rate and spread across the quantity, so larger orders cost less per unit.
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Covers remakes. Adds this share of the line's material and machine cost, which is what a failed print or a re-cut uses up. If about one print in twenty fails, enter 5.
%
The share of the price you keep after costs. 50% margin = a price of 2× your cost (that's 100% markup).
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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, so twice on a deposit-and-balance job.
📉 Price per unit by quantity
Qty
Each
Line total
📊 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
Bar stock for this blank →The figures above are for a blank cut from bar. Forging it instead? BladeStock, a free calculator, works out the bar to start from, blades per bar and steel cost for a forged blade of this length, height and tang.
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 are 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. That's 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
Panel set sized for your box dimensions. Add your own joinery in CAD before cutting.
📂 Ingest Cut Geometry & Batch Parts
⚠️ Nests of up to 5 different parts (any quantity of each) are free as often as you like, on every plan. Maker Free and Maker Pro also get 2 trial nests with more parts and 2 trial SVG/DXF imports. After that, Workshop Suite nests any number of different parts and adds vector import and every KraftyDesign shape beyond the knife blank.
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 a job to "Shipped / Done" offers to draw its material down from stock, scaled to the batch quantity.
Price every cut for profit. Calculate material yield, waste, machine time, your true cost, and a profitable retail price before the first cut.
⚡ Instant
Readouts and margins update in real time as stock dimensions, scrap percentages, and batch sizes shift.
🔍 Transparent
No hidden math. Every dollar traces back to raw sheet goods, consumables, runtime, and unbilled shop overhead.
🛠️ Practical
Built for custom fabrication, laser cutters, CNC mills, belt grinders, and the way small shops really work.
📖 Frequently Asked Questions
How does KraftyQuote calculate my cost (COGS)?
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. Maker Pro removes it and puts your own logo on them, and adds emailing your customer a link to the quote, which they can accept online. You see who opened it and who accepted, and which quotes need a follow-up, and you can put a design proof on the quote for them to approve. Each KraftyFlow job then tracks the payments you receive, with an invoice and a receipt. Workshop Suite includes all of that and adds unlimited nesting, DXF/SVG import and every KraftyDesign shape.
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
Start Fresh
Done trying things out? Clear your practice quotes, jobs and stock in one step and start with an empty shop. You choose what goes, and you can download a backup first.
🧹 Start Fresh
Clears what you made while trying KraftyQuote out. Your account, your plan and your shop details (business name, logo, terms, overhead and machines) stay as they are.
🏭 My Machines
Check what your shop has. Their presets come first and the rest fold away, one click from coming back. A shop with no laser, router, plasma cutter or grinder doesn't see KraftyDesign or KraftyNest. Nothing is deleted and no price changes. Uncheck everything to see the whole app.
🏠 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, plus 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.
📬 Sent quotes
Quotes you emailed as a link. Your customer opens the link, reads the quote and accepts or declines it; their answer shows up here. An accepted quote goes to KraftyFlow in one click.
Quote
Customer
Total
Status
⚖️ 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. this quote
🧮 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.
Tubes, lenses, bearings, nozzles: what you replace as you run it.
On the nameplate or the power brick.
It's on your power bill. The US home average was about $0.18 in 2026 (EIA).
Working life:2,600 hrs
Machine paying for itself:$1.35/hr
Electricity:$0.16/hr
Wear items:$2.50/hr
Total Machine Cost:$4.01/hr
⭐ Part of a paid plan
Maker Pro and Workshop Suite renew automatically every month at the price on their button below, plus any tax, until you cancel. Cancel online at any time in the billing portal to stop future charges. The Founder Pass is a one-time payment of $199 plus any tax and never renews. Annual billing (2 months free) is available at kraftyquote.com/pricing. By choosing an option and continuing to checkout, you agree to the Terms of Service, Privacy Policy and Refund Policy.
Quotes your customer accepts online and pays a deposit on, your logo instead of the watermark, design proofs, follow-ups, saved products, quantity pricing on the quote, invoices and receipts, a profit & tax report, CSV export, unlimited saves and inventory, and all 28 sales channels.
Everything in Maker Pro, plus the tools for cutting sheet goods: import your own DXF/SVG files, nest any number of different parts, every KraftyDesign shape and batch grouping.
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Saved Quote Records (0)
Shop Identity & Header Settings
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.
💵 Payments:
This records money you have received; it doesn't charge anyone. Payments are kept with the job on this device and in your shop backup.
📈 Profit & Tax Report
Jobs moved to Shipped / Done in the year, priced as quoted, with the actual hours you tracked. "Left after supplies & fees" is the cash the job left you; "Profit" also pays for your time at your labor rate, machine time and shop overhead.
Money received
For your tax return (Schedule C)
📚 Saved Products
Price a line once, save it, and add it to any quote. It comes back at today's stock prices, and a product that now costs more to make is flagged here.
🧾 Invoice & receipt
Your shop name isn't set, so the invoice shows a placeholder. Set it in the Shop Identity bar on the customer quote (📄 View Customer Quote).
Add Raw Material
Log Scrap Remnant
Linking it means a job using that material can eat this remnant before breaking into a new one.