Count The Merch — The Per-Piece Count, Before The Order.

— The Count — What One Piece Really Costs

Your numbers, off the quotes in front of you. Blank money boxes count as zero; a box with something in it has to be a real number or the count won't stand. The one-time costs — setup, screens, freight in — are spread across the run, rounded to the cent per piece, the way they land. If the price doesn't clear the per-piece costs, the count says so plainly instead of inventing a break-even.

The piece (shirt, hoodie, poster…)

Price per piece ($)

What rides on every piece

The blank ($ per piece)

The print ($ per piece)

Tags, packaging, the rest ($ per piece)

What the run costs once

Setup, screens, art ($ once)

Freight in ($ once)

The run (pieces)

Cost per piece, all in

—

per-piece costs + the once-costs spread over the run

Margin per piece

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price − cost per piece

Break-even

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pieces that must sell to cover the once-costs

The run, all in

—

every piece + the once-costs

If every piece sells, the margin on the run

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revenue if sold out, against the whole cost of the run

Put the price, a per-piece cost, and the size of the run in — the sheet prints when the piece is counted.

— Get the app

Count The Merch is free, forever. Put it on your home screen like any app — no store, no account, no cost — and it works offline once it's yours. Count every piece before the order, not after the boxes land.

On iPhone: tap Share, then "Add to Home Screen."
On Android: tap the menu (⋮), then "Install app" or "Add to Home screen."