Product Developer Economics Calculator

What one unit of your product costs you to make and sell, what it earns, and whether the business covers its costs.

Start with how many units you make, the seaweed in each and what you receive for one. Add the costs you know. Leave a box empty if you do not know it, or enter 0 if you have none; the result names anything left out. Amounts are Canadian dollars.

A: Your product

What kind of product

Units you make a year

Dried seaweed in one unit (g)

What you pay for dried seaweed ($ per kg)This is the processor’s selling price. Work it out in the Processor Economics Calculator and it will be offered here.Published: one seller lists dried kelp and dulse in bulk at US$85.00 to US$117.00 per kg, about $117.30 to $161.46 at 1.38 Canadian dollars to the US dollar, an example rate. A business buying in volume pays less. Those prices have not been published. Sources

Share of units wasted before sale (%)

B: How you sell

Who you sell to

What you receive for one unit ($)

Customer acquisition cost, per unit ($)

C: Your other costs

Manufacturing, per unit ($)

Packaging, per unit ($)

Delivery, per unit ($)

Marketing a year ($)

Testing and approvals a year ($)

Admin and insurance a year ($)

Equipment and set up ($)

Years the equipment lasts

Enter how many units you make, the seaweed in each and what it costs you. Then add what you receive for one unit and the other costs you know.

This tool helps you think through your numbers; it does not promise a profit.