Machine EmbroideryPricing for Profit

Are you unsure what to charge for your machine embroidery work?

Machine Embroidery Pricing for Profit gives you a clear, practical system for pricing embroidered products, personalised orders, digitizing services and downloadable embroidery designs-without complicated accounting language.

Written for beginners, home-based embroiderers and growing embroidery businesses, this step-by-step guide shows you how to calculate what each order really costs and turn that cost into a sustainable selling price.

You will learn how to:

- Calculate the cost of blanks, thread, stabilizer and other supplies
- Pay yourself properly for preparation, hooping, finishing and administration
- Include machine time, overhead, maintenance, waste and mistakes
- Understand markup, profit margin, revenue and break-even
- Compare stitch-count pricing with machine-time pricing
- Price names, monograms, caps, towels, jackets and difficult placements
- Set minimum charges, setup fees, rush fees and handling charges
- Price customer-supplied garments while protecting your business
- Charge for custom embroidery digitizing, revisions and resizing
- Price digital embroidery designs, bundles and commercial licences
- Include Etsy and other marketplace selling fees
- Create profitable quotes for bulk, wholesale and B2B embroidery orders
- Measure profit per product, order, customer and machine hour
- Review your prices and recognise work that is no longer profitable

Realistic worked examples take you through the complete pricing process, from the first material cost to the final customer price. You will see how the same principles apply to one personalised item, a larger company-clothing order, a custom digitizing project or a reusable digital design.

The book concludes with a practical 30-day plan for organising your costs, building your prices, creating essential business documents and reviewing your results.

Stop copying competitors, undercharging for your time or relying on a single price-per-stitch figure.

Build an embroidery pricing system that covers your costs, pays you for your work and supports genuine business profit.