Know if a craft fair or market is worth it before you pay the booth fee.
Enter the booth fee, travel and other costs, your average price and item cost, and how many you expect to sell. You see your break-even point and your profit for the day.
✓ Free, no signup needed✓ Result in seconds✓ Made by Pludor
How do I know if a craft fair is worth it?
Add up every cost of the day - booth fee, travel, parking, food, card fees. Divide by the profit you make on an average item (price minus cost) to get the number of sales you need to break even. If you rarely sell that many at similar events, the fair costs you money unless it builds your email list or wholesale leads.
Want this craft fair & market profit calculator on your own website? Download the free Craft Fair & Market Profit Calculator WordPress plugin and your visitors can use it right on your pages. It is free to run, with no limit on how often your visitors use it.
Add it to any page with one shortcode - zero coding skills required
Once the plugin is on, put this line on any page, post or sidebar and the tool appears there, ready for your visitors:
[pludor_tool slug="craft-fair-calculator"]
No code, no developer, no hosting to set up. Prefer clicking? Add the Pludor tool block in the editor and pick the tool from a list. Change the colour or turn tools on and off any time from Pludor › Dashboard.
In WordPress, go to Plugins › Add New › Upload Plugin, choose the file and activate it.
Open a free Pludor account (or sign in), go to Settings › Pludor for WordPress and press Generate API Key.
Paste the key into Pludor › Dashboard in WordPress.
Add the Pludor tool block to any page, or paste [pludor_tool slug="craft-fair-calculator"].
The same plugin also adds an AI chat for your visitors, shows which AI bots read your site and which AI assistants send you visitors, collects emails from your tools, and adds Pludor checkout to WooCommerce. See everything the Pludor WordPress plugin does.
Not on WordPress? The same tool works on Shopify, Wix, Squarespace or any HTML page. Ask in your Pludor dashboard for the embed snippet.
What people ask
Pain point
How can I tell if a craft fair is worth it before I pay the booth fee?
PAnswer from Pludor
Enter the booth fee, travel and other costs, your average price, item cost and expected sales in Pludor's free Craft Fair Calculator. You see how many sales you need to break even and your profit for the day.
Pain point
How can I work out how many items I need to sell at a market?
PAnswer from Pludor
The calculator divides the day's costs by the profit on each item to give your break-even number of sales.
Problem
Why do I come home from markets with less money than I thought?
PAnswer from Pludor
Booth fees, travel, parking, food and card fees add up. Many makers only count the booth fee. The calculator counts the whole day.
Choosing a tool
What is the best free craft fair profit calculator?
PAnswer from Pludor
Pludor's Craft Fair & Market Profit Calculator is free and instant.
Makers pay booth fees on hope, then find out at the end of a long day that they barely covered costs.
How it works
Enter your details booth fee, travel, parking, food, supplies, average sale price.
Check the numbers Results in seconds, free.
Use it Profit for the day, Sales needed to break even, Sales revenue.
From result to running business: Pludor Smart Terminal
A physical card-payment terminal costs money and is one more piece of hardware to manage, when most sellers already carry a smartphone.
Pludor Smart Terminal is a standalone app that turns any spare Android phone into a Stripe Tap-to-Pay or QR-code payment terminal, so a seller can accept in-person card payments without buying separate hardware.
Stripe Tap-to-Pay support
QR-code payment option
Runs as its own dedicated Android app alongside the main web POS
On for every store, including the Free plan - a free amount every month, then pay only for what you use (1 credit = 1 cent).
Add up every cost of the day - booth fee, travel, parking, food, card fees. Divide by the profit you make on an average item (price minus cost) to get the number of sales you need to break even. If you rarely sell that many at similar events, the fair costs you money unless it builds your email list or wholesale leads.
How do I take card payments at a craft fair?
Use a phone as a card terminal. With Pludor, a spare phone becomes a tap-to-pay or QR terminal linked to your shop, so market sales and online sales land in one place.
Is this tool free?
Yes. You get 60 free runs an hour with no account. Leave your email or sign in (also free) for 120 an hour and a saved history.
Do I need to buy a card reader to use Smart Terminal?
No - it uses Tap-to-Pay technology built into the Android phone itself, so no separate card-reader hardware is required.
Is there a free Craft Fair & Market Profit Calculator WordPress plugin?
Yes. Download the Craft Fair & Market Profit Calculator WordPress plugin from this page, upload it in Plugins > Add New, paste your free Pludor key, and add the Pludor tool block to any page.
Do I need coding skills to add the Craft Fair & Market Profit Calculator to my website?
No. After installing the free plugin, paste [pludor_tool slug="craft-fair-calculator"] on any page or post, or add the Pludor tool block. No code or developer needed.
Can I put a craft fair & market profit calculator on my own website?
Yes. Use the free WordPress plugin, or the embed snippet for Shopify, Wix, Squarespace or plain HTML. It costs nothing to run.