Launch Budget Planner
What can you launch with your budget?
Explore how many garments you could make, what getting started might cost, and what changes when you adjust your budget.
Planning estimates, not supplier quotes. Every number is an illustrative starting point until it is checked against real rates.
1. Your budget
Domestic means made in the same country as this location. Overseas means made somewhere else.
2. What you are making
One style per calculation. Run the planner again for a second style.
Each route has different minimums and different costs.
Each colourway has its own minimum for sewing and fabric. More colours usually means more minimum-driven cost.
Size runs are listed for your summary. They do not change minimums or unit cost here. Grading, the work of making the other sizes from the sample, is costed in the patterns line.
3. Making and shipping
4. Launch expenses
Choose how each one applies to you. Include counts the full estimate. Already covered counts nothing because you have paid for it. I do it myself counts only the incidental cost. An LLC is not required for every brand, and formation costs vary by state.
Development
The spec sheet a factory sews from. Done by you, a template, or a consultant.
Patterns, first samples, fixes after fitting, and the size set (grading). Each fit round costs money, so budget for at least one revision.
Launch
Label and packaging artwork and the one-off set-up fees. Per-unit trims are counted in production.
Money you want to spend on ads or promotion before and after launch. Enter an amount, or use the illustrative default.
Business
Filing fees vary by state and are not the whole cost. An LLC is not a universal launch requirement; many brands start as sole proprietors. Varies by state. Check your state's filing fee and any annual report fee.
Store
A paid theme for the store. Free themes cover most launches.
Content
Photos of the finished product. A phone and daylight can do a basic set.
Optional. A model for the photos. Friends or yourself cost little.
Optional. Rented space for the shoot. A room at home is often enough.
Optional. Someone to style the garments for the shoot.
Recurring, per month
Monthly costs are multiplied by this number.
The monthly fee for the store platform. Plan prices change; check the current plan you need.
Your web address, shown as a monthly share of the yearly fee.
Adjust assumptions
These are the illustrative starting values. Enter your own number if you have a quote or a rate. Leave a box blank to use the planner value. Your numbers are used for this session only and are not saved.
Per colour is the usual factory practice. Per style means one minimum for the whole style, which is rare but worth checking with a factory.
How much cloth one garment uses, from your pattern layout.
Your mill or converter's price for the fabric you chose.
Cloth lost to layout and cutting. The planner adds this on top of the garment yardage.
The factory's sewing price before quantity tiers.
The price of the plain garment you buy in.
Care labels, hang tags and poly bags, if not in the factory quote.
The fixed part of freight for one shipment.
The variable part of freight.
Clearing goods through customs, per shipment.
Share of goods value. Confirm the tariff code for your garment.
Spare money kept back for surprises.