Quote · Articulated dragon
- Quantity
- 1
- Material
- Blue silk PLA
- Ready in
- 4–5 days
Your price
$17.50
Stop guessing what to charge for your prints.
Drop in your gcode. LayerQuote reads the print time and filament, applies your real costs, and gives you a professional quote link to send — so you never lose money on a commission again.
What your customer sees. Your cost lines stay on your side of the screen.
You're on the list.
Check your inbox once at launch.
Sound familiar?
Someone asks what a print would cost and honestly? I guess.
I just charge them a roll of filament.
My 'system' is a spreadsheet a YouTuber made.
Quoted $15 in a DM. The print failed twice. I made about minus four dollars.
Paraphrased from public maker groups. Not endorsements — just what sellers say.
From sliced file to quote in three steps
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Drop in your sliced file
Upload the gcode or 3mf from your slicer. Print time and filament grams are read for you — no typing numbers across.
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Your rates get applied
Filament cost, power, machine wear, your labour, a failure buffer and your markup — set once, applied every time.
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Send the quote link
Your customer opens a clean page with your name on it, sees the price, and taps Accept. No more scrolling back through DMs to find what you said.
Click a screenshot to enlarge it.
The lines most sellers forget
One real job: an articulated dragon, 6 h 40 m print, 145 g silk PLA.
| Line | Amount |
|---|---|
| Filament Silk PLA, 145 g at $19.90/kg | $2.89 |
| Power 6 h 40 m × 120 W at $0.32/kWh | $0.26 |
| Machine wear 6 h 40 m at $0.35/h | $2.33 |
| Failure buffer 6% of filament, power and wear | $0.33 |
| Labour 20 min setup, removal, messaging at $18/h | $6.00 |
| True cost | $11.81 |
| Markup 45% | $5.31 |
| Your quote $17.12, rounded | $17.50 |
“Filament × 2” pricing
$5.78
The price that actually pays you
$17.50
At $5.78 you cover the plastic and nothing else — not the power, not the wear, not your 20 minutes. That's a $6.03 loss on every print, before the one that fails.
Illustrative. Your rates are yours — LayerQuote applies the numbers you set.
Built for sellers doing custom orders
For
- Commission makers taking custom requests in Facebook groups and DMs
- Craft-fair and market sellers who take custom orders on the side
- Etsy sellers doing personalised and made-to-order prints
Not for
- Industrial service bureaus — you'll want enterprise quoting tools
- Makers who print for themselves and never sell
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