For makers behind the booth

Big sales don’t always mean a great event.

Find out what you actually earned—and which festivals are worth booking again. Start with one event, not another dashboard.

Calculate My Event Profit Explore the toolkit

Free calculation. No account. No email gate.

Built from booth-side experience.
The founder runs Gleason 3D and sells at festivals.

Transparent calculationsYour own hourly targetNo income promises

Was That Festival Worth It?

Count more than sales.

Subtract the real costs.

Account for the products you sold, booth fees, processing, travel and everything else the weekend cost.

Give your time a number.

See earnings per owner hour, including the work before and after the doors open.

Decide what deserves a repeat.

Use profit, hours and your own experience—not a universal ‘good event’ score—to guide your next booking.

A weekend, by the numbersHypothetical example

Gross / net sales: $1,200
Products sold: − $360
Booth fee: − $150
Processing fees: − $36
Travel & other expenses: − $114

Event profit before income taxes

$540

45% margin24 owner hours$22.50 / hour

No discounts or refunds in this example. Owner compensation is not deducted; owner time is reflected in the hourly figure.

The free single-event calculator

Start with your last festival.

Grab your receipts and sales totals. Your inputs stay in this page’s local state; they are not saved as event records.

Event nameEvent dateGross sales ($)Exclude sales tax collected. Enter 0 if none.Discounts & refunds ($)Only amounts not already deducted from gross sales. Enter 0 if none.Cost of products sold ($)Materials and production costs for inventory actually sold—not everything you brought. Enter 0 if none.Booth fee ($)The event’s vendor fee. Enter 0 if none.Payment processing fees ($)Actual card and payment fees. Enter 0 if none.Travel & lodging ($)Event-related transportation and accommodation. Enter 0 if none.Other event expenses ($)Include paid helper wages here, but not your own time. Enter 0 if none.Total owner hoursPreparation, travel, setup, selling and packing. Enter 0 if none.

Your event snapshot

Sales tell half the story.

Complete the fields to see your profit, margin, expenses and earnings per hour. Missing financial inputs must be filled in before calculating.

Profit is before income taxes and owner compensation—not take-home pay. Your own time is counted in hours, not deducted again as an expense. Negative profit is shown as a loss.

The next step · downloadable toolkit

Compare your events.
Plan your next booth.

Make better booking decisions with reusable worksheets, rather than starting from scratch after every weekend.

Planned comparison sheet

Sales · profit · total hours · earnings per hour · booth fee · your rating · would you return?

Set your own hourly target. The sales planner estimates break-even and target sales from fixed expenses, product and processing percentages, and expected owner hours.

Event planning toolkit

In development

$19proposed one-time price

Reusable event profit spreadsheet
Side-by-side event comparison table
Pre-event sales target planner
Inventory planning worksheet
Packing checklist
Post-event review worksheet

An initial offer to test, not a subscription. The downloadable files and payment setup must be ready before this toolkit is offered for purchase.

Check available downloads

A few practical answers.

Is this just for 3D printing vendors?

That’s our starting audience, informed by Gleason 3D’s festival experience. Other makers can use the same sales, cost and time calculation.

Does this include taxes or pay for my own time?

No. Event profit is before income taxes and owner compensation. Earnings per owner hour divides that profit by all your event-related hours. Paid helpers are an event expense.

Will my events be saved or shared?

This calculator does not save event records or post anything. Saved comparisons and an optional Festival Report Card are future ideas, not live features. The planned report card will hide financial figures by default.

What makes an event worth booking again?

You decide. Compare the earnings with your own hourly target, then consider your event rating and lessons learned. Planning figures are estimates, not income guarantees.

Know which events deserve your next weekend.

Before you book again,
run the numbers.

Calculate My Event Profit