LayerWorth questions and answers
Can I compare bulk order prices?
Maker and higher include “Compare bulk quantities.” Enter up to six order quantities and the finished units that fit one complete set of your recipe’s plates. Material and print time scale with units; setup and other per-order costs stay fixed, while plate handling rounds up to complete sets. Suggested prices preserve your target margin and minimum price/profit safeguards. No faster printing or shipping savings are assumed. Review slicer totals and shipping before quoting; comparisons do not change or save your recipe.
How do sales, coupon codes and personal offers work?
An active sale appears on the site and applies automatically to an eligible new monthly subscription. If you have a coupon code, open “Have a coupon code?” in your team’s Plans & billing screen to check its plan, price, duration and deadline before using it. Personal offers appear separately for their verified recipient. Discounts do not stack; an explicitly chosen code or personal offer replaces an automatic sale. Each campaign can be claimed once per verified account on one owned team. Annual plans and existing subscriptions keep their usual terms. Your regular monthly price returns after the discount period.
Can I use the calculator for free?
Yes. Price one repeatable plate layout with up to 10 filaments without an account using material, energy, labor, shipping, packaging, overhead, basic selling fees, target margin and one total for extra components. You can check your selling price and profit per printer-hour. Your first team starts on Free with 1 member and 1 workspace. Printer depreciation, maintenance and failed-print reserves require Maker or higher and are excluded from Free estimates.
What does Maker add?
Maker includes 1 member and 1 workspace per team, printer depreciation and maintenance, failed-print reserves, up to 20 different plate layouts with independent run counts, itemized components with reusable saved costs, and minimum price and profit safeguards. You can save cost profiles, calculation history and up to 25 product recipes per workspace. Start with Plate 1 for a quick estimate and add layouts only when needed.
Can one product use several plates or different filaments?
Every plan supports up to 10 filaments on Plate 1, each with its own weight and cost. Enter print time and filament quantities for one run, then set Plate runs to repeat that layout. Maker and higher can add up to 20 different plate layouts, each with its own run count. Finished units is the total number of items you will sell; it does not multiply plate inputs. A repeated layout assumes full plates—add a separate partial final plate on a paid plan when you need more precision.
How do I include keyrings, magnets, glue or other components?
Free lets you enter one extra-material cost for the whole order. Maker and higher also let you expand “Track components individually,” assign a cost and quantity to each component, choose quantities per finished item or per order, and quickly add saved component prices. Itemized costs replace the quick total, so they are not counted twice.
Why are some calculator sections locked?
Expand them to see the fields or an example of what Maker unlocks, then follow the upgrade link when you need those tools. Locked fields and example costs are excluded from Free calculations. Opening or closing a section does not change your estimate. For extra components on paid plans, choose an aggregate total or itemized costing explicitly; collapsing the section keeps your active recipe intact.
What do Pro and Studio add?
Pro includes up to 3 members and 5 workspaces per team, unlimited products, saved marketplace fee profiles, profitability insights, and CSV exports. Studio includes unlimited workspaces and up to 10 members per team, and printer profitability comparisons.
Does margin mean markup?
No. Margin is profit divided by total customer revenue. Markup compares profit with cost. A 50% margin is different from a 50% markup.
How does annual billing work?
Annual plans are charged once per year: Maker $100, Pro $200, Studio $300, in USD. The displayed monthly price is that annual amount divided by 12. You receive the value of 2 months free compared with monthly billing. Review the total and any applicable tax in checkout.
Where do I manage or cancel a subscription?
Owners can open the billing portal from Plan & billing inside their workspace. It provides subscription, payment, and cancellation controls. Check the billing page for your current access period and cancellation status.
What happens to saved work if I downgrade?
A downgrade preserves saved data, but tools outside your new plan become locked. Pro and Studio include CSV exports of saved calculations; export the records you need before changing plans.
Which currency does the calculator use?
Choose a currency in the public calculator; this browser remembers your choice. Supported currencies are USD, CAD, EUR, GBP, AUD, NZD, CHF, INR, SGD, MXN, BRL, ZAR. In Account → Profile, set your default for new workspaces. Workspace owners can change the workspace default in the same tab under “This workspace.” New calculations and cost profiles use that default. All costs in an estimate must use the same currency; changing a choice does not convert amounts. Subscription billing remains in USD.
Will changing my currency change saved prices?
No. Saved products, cost profiles and calculation history keep their original currency. Changing the workspace default affects new work. Calculators load only cost and marketplace profiles with a matching currency, and reports keep totals separate by currency. LayerWorth does not apply exchange rates or automatically convert saved costs.
How is printer wear calculated?
On Maker and higher, purchase price minus residual value is spread across service-life hours. Maintenance cost per hour is added, then multiplied by print time. A failure reserve also covers expected repeated machine costs when you enter a failure probability. You set these assumptions; Free excludes depreciation and maintenance.
How are failed prints accounted for?
Maker and higher let you enter the probability of a failed plate. The reserve covers expected retries of material, machine, energy and plate labor, and expected printer-hours include those retries. Finishing, packaging and shipping are charged once for successful units. This assumes failed attempts consume the full repeatable plate cost; it does not model partial failures. Free uses no failure reserve.
Does it support resin printing?
The model uses material weight and print time. It does not automatically estimate resin volume, washing, curing, or consumables. Include your post-processing labor and other costs explicitly; these are not resin-specific presets.
Are marketplace fees automatic?
Free and Maker let you enter basic percentage and fixed fees. Pro and Studio can save detailed marketplace fee rules. Enter current rates from your selling channel; example values are not authoritative platform tariffs.
Where do my calculations go?
The public calculator runs in your browser. Maker and higher can save calculations and product recipes in a workspace. Stored workspace data is controlled by membership and access permissions; Studio lets you invite teammates.
Can I compare prices or send an estimate to a customer?
Maker and higher can keep up to three pricing scenarios alongside the current estimate. Comparisons stay in that page until you leave; save a calculation to keep its inputs. Pro and Studio can also prepare a customer quote using the recommended price or your entered selling price, then copy or download it, print it or save as PDF, or open a draft in your email app. The quote includes quantity, item price, shipping, optional business and customer names, a quote reference, a validity date and notes. Internal costs and profit are excluded. Tax is not calculated. The calculator’s quick quote details stay on that page. Pro and Studio also have a Quotes area to save quotes from products or calculations, edit drafts, mark reviewed quotes ready and archive records. Ready quotes keep their own snapshot; later recipe edits do not change them. Share ready quotes with revocable 30- or 60-day customer links, or review and send a quote email through LayerWorth when email sending is configured. Customers can accept or decline without an account. Anyone holding a link can respond; identity is not verified. Responses preserve the frozen version and do not collect payment or book production.