Calculator
What does a yard of cut fabric actually earn you?
Put in your landed cost, your bolt length and the yardage you lose per bolt, and see the margin that survives to the register.
Free tools
Free calculators for the cutting counter and the classroom
Two working tools for the two numbers that decide whether an independent quilt shop clears anything at the end of the month.
Shop owners rarely lack effort. What they lack is a clean number for two things: what a yard of fabric actually earns after freight and shelf ends, and how many hours the class calendar quietly consumes before anyone teaches a stitch. Both are arithmetic problems with real inputs from your own shop, and both change how you buy and how you schedule.
These calculators run in your browser and keep nothing. Put your own wholesale cost, your own bolt lengths and your own session counts in, and use the result to argue with yourself about your next reorder or your spring class list. Realistic defaults are loaded so you can see how the math behaves before you change a thing.
Calculator
How many hours a month does your class schedule really take?
Count the kit cutting and the classroom resets alongside the teaching hours and the class calendar starts to look like the job it is.
Working document
The bolt count reset checklist for an independent quilt shop
A shelf by shelf routine for getting your recorded yardage and your actual yardage to agree, and for keeping them that way.
Why the yardage math is open to anyone
Every quilt shop owner already runs these numbers by hand. You work out the true cost of a saleable yard in pen on the back of a wholesale invoice, you guess at the shelf end you will never sell at full price, and you add up the evenings that kit cutting stole from the reorder sheet. Asking you to register an account before you can do arithmetic you already do at the cutting table would be absurd, so there is no sign up on these calculators, no email box and nothing kept when you close the tab.
Run on their own, both are worth having even if you never look at QuiltCounter again. A real cost per saleable yard changes what you agree to at your next rep appointment and how early you move an aging bolt to the remnant bin instead of defending a price that was never the true cost. A real count of kit cutting and classroom reset hours changes which sessions survive onto the spring class list. Print the results, argue with them, take them to your bookkeeper. They are your shop's figures, not ours.
Now make the yardage hold all year
A calculator gives you the figure once, on the inputs you typed today. Keeping it true means every cut lands on the right bolt, every kit pulls its yards when you build the batch, and every class sample leaves the shelf with a name on it. Book a demo and we will run your own margin and hour figures back through QuiltCounter so you can see what that looks like at the counter on a normal Thursday.