What you charged
isn't what you kept.
The money map is PrintDeck's answer to the question every print shop asks: what did I actually make on this order? It nets the whole story — what you charged, shipping in both directions, what the product truly cost, what failed on the way, what the marketplace took — into one honest number per order. And every line shows its work.
Six lines that tell the truth
about one order.
This is a real order from a real shop — a $12 sale that looked fine and lost $1.05. Here's what each line means and where its number comes from.
What the customer paid for the item — the number most tools stop at.
Shipping is money in when you charge for it. It counts toward the order — and so does its opposite, below.
The product's true make-cost from its own card: filament at what you actually paid, printer wear at that machine's real hourly rate, packaging, hardware like LED bases, a slice of monthly overhead. Every piece visible, down to the glue stick.
One print died on the way — $1.65 of filament and $1.20 of printer wear, booked to this order instead of shrugged off. How fail accounting works →
What the label actually cost. Charged $4.63, paid $6.16 — that's a $1.53 leak this receipt refuses to hide. Shipping gaps are one of the most common silent losses in a print shop.
Computed per order by channel — including the part most sellers miss: Etsy's 6.5% transaction fee applies to your shipping price too, and offsite ads can take another 12–15% on some orders.
The honest bottom line. This order paid $1.05 for the privilege of existing. Painful to see once — profitable to see before the next hundred orders repeat it.
One number before the work.
One number after it.
"What does this cost me to make?"
Every product carries a floor — the price below which you're paying to work. It's built from the product card: filament, wear at your printer's real rate, packaging, hardware, labor minutes, overhead. Set your price with the floor in sight and you can't accidentally sell at a loss.
When you try to price below it anyway, PrintDeck doesn't block you — it asks. A below-floor price is usually a deal for a specific customer, not a mistake, and PrintDeck treats you like the adult in the room.
"What did I actually make?"
When the order ships, the map fills in with what really happened: the real label cost, the real fails, the real fees, any discount or refund. The estimate becomes a receipt. That's the number your bank account will agree with — and the one your weekly "what you made" rolls up from.
Refunds subtract from it. Replacement prints stay attached to the original order, so a reprint's cost lands on the order that caused it instead of vanishing.
Every number shows its work.
That's a rule, not a feature.
PrintDeck runs on one law: no mystery math. Any number on any screen can be opened up — the floor price lists every line that built it, the receipt shows where each dollar went, and a warning always tells you what it's based on.
That matters because trust in a money tool dies the first time it shows you a number you can't explain. If PrintDeck computed it, you can see what went in. If the data isn't there to support a number, PrintDeck doesn't invent one — no data beats wrong data.
And the map works while the order is live, not just after. Marketplace orders that arrive already paid say so right on the commit button. If logged shipping comes in over what you charged, the order's projection updates instead of surprising you at the end. The point isn't a prettier report — it's catching the leak while you can still do something about it.