12. Cost and Price Calculator

12.1 Business Starting Requirements

To start your small business, you need a minimum

1. Laser Machine: Entry Level Laser Machine costing from 2000$-10000$
2. Air blower / Exhaust Fan: Costing from 500$-6000$
3. Computer: Mid Level Computer with Windows 7,810 800$-1500$
4. Vector Designing Software: any free or paid vector designing softwares 0$-5000$
5. Rotary Attachment (Optional) – It is only for engraving in cylindrical objects 300$-600$
6. Furniture(Optional) : Computer Table,Machine Table and Office table 200$-400$

12.2 Pricing for Laser Cutting Work

• Machine Cost
• Designing Cost
• Material Cost

Costing depending on your location and customers, but i am sharing a sample formula for pricing your service.

Price = Material Cost X 2 + Laser Time(Minutes) X 1 + Designing Time (Minutes) X 0.5 + Finishing Time(Sanding,Painting) X 0.5

You can easily price and send invoice using the following application CNCTeller , Now it is web-based but their offline software version will release soon.

CNC Teller

CNC Teller is a web application for CNC, Laser and Plasma users to ease their daily CNC related tasks such as Price Calculator, Invoicing, Work Scheduling and Analytics

for more information visit https://cncteller.com/