For 3D-print sellers
Your printer's time is a material. Price it like one.
A dollar of filament can tie up your printer for twelve hours — power, wear, and a bed you can't use for the next order. Batchnook lets you cost amortized machine time as its own line, right beside filament, so a long print is never sold for the price of its plastic.
Made for the print farm
Filament and machine time, both in the cost — and margins that stay honest.
Machine time is a material
Work out an hourly rate for a printer — power, depreciation, and maintenance over its life — and add amortized machine time to each print as its own cost line, right next to the filament. Now a twelve-hour print costs what it actually costs to make.
Filament prices move — watch your margins
Snap the receipt from a filament order and Batchnook re-costs every model at once, by the moving-average method. Set a target margin and it flags the prints that slipped under it — the ones to re-price before your next drop.
Print runs and orders, tracked
Log a run — “printed 20 dragons” — and stock plus unit cost update together. Record an Etsy or market order in a couple of taps; revenue and period COGS track themselves, never metered. Run as many printers as you like.
What a print really earns you
Fold machine time into the cost and watch the “it's basically free filament” myth fall apart. Try a typical print, then run it on your own models.
Filament + machine time per print
- Filament (≈180 g)$1.40
- Printer time — amortized (power + printer wear + maintenance)$3.30
- Failed-print allowance$0.50
- Finishing & packaging$0.60
- What one unit costs you$5.80
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
74%
At or above your target — healthy.
Profit per unit
$16.20
Price to hit your target
$14.50
Want this done for you?
Batchnook keeps this margin current from a receipt photo — no re-entering numbers. Join the waitlist and the founding offer for makers opens to you first.
This is the same margin Batchnook shows on every product — what's left after filament and machine time, as a share of price. Start free to run it on your own receipts, no card.
The deal, plainly
- The price you join at is yours.
- 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.