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I’m having a lot of trouble setting pricing right on my Hub, and I’m hoping someone a bit more experienced can help me out. No matter what I do, it seems that for large orders my pricing is much too low and for small ones my pricing is too high. For small (single models and Marvin sized objects) my prices were too high, so I adjusted it. But now for large orders (multiple parts), my Hub displays as hundreds less than my nearby competitors ($340 instead of $700). I don’t want to know your actual dollar and cents amount, but could someone better explain how to utilize the pricing details available?

How/when do I use subsequent prints, surface area, bounding box, etc.? I understand what subsequent prints does (more or less) but the others one I’m at a bit of a loss with.

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your prices dont look out of wack to me… your small prints are driven by your minimum order amount and setup charge.

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Hey @Enza3D,

You must have your ‘price per cm3’ too low and your ‘price per print’ too high. This explains why small prints are high priced and large ones are too cheap.

I’d advise working out how much is costs you per cm3 of filament. Then add a little extra for running costs like electric/ maintenance. You should also consider the 12.5% that 3D hubs takes as a fee. You can either leave that price at that amount or add a little extra. The ‘price per print’ can be set at whatever you like.

This should mean that your pricing is more consistent with less variation in price.

Hope this is useful.

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If you do not have simplify3d you could use this site to help calculate your prices: 3D Printer Job Cost Calculator | IC3D Printers.

When you create a price you should calculate the material cost, electric cost, labor cost, and profit cost into the equation. For example when using the calcualtor I linked say I was to print something that would use 785.7 mm of filament. The roll of PLA filament I would use cost $30 at the time of purchase. My slicer of choice estimates the marvin design wold take 20 minutes at a 0.3 mm layer height with 15% fill. For cost per hour say I want $1 a hour to check on the design and when finished remove any supports. To make a profit I would tack on an additional 55 cents for example to make the cost per hour of my time $1.55. Mark up I would add 20% just to round the number.

Tallied up in the calculator I linked, that example I provided says I would use a total filament cost of$0.08. The total time cost would be $0.52 and total job cost would be $0.60. In the printers and pricing section I would add the $0.60 to a PLA profile of 300 microns. 3dHubs then will add the setup charge and their 12% fee to this price.

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Hi Enza3D,

^ I only started with 3DHubs in May, and I had the same problem you do; pricing. I spent a few days getting prices set where I thought they were reasonable for several kinds of orders. I’m no expert, but here’s a few things I learned.

^ 1. Decide what prices you want to receive for small, medium, and large prints. Look at other hubs with your printer (Form 2, for me), same materials, similar production options, similar community, large volume, etc. This is not the same as calculating a specific number. Assuming a profit margin and the cost of your time can get tricky.

^ 2. Use the optional Extra Pricing Details. Don’t get bogged down by what the options are called. e.g. Subsequent Prints can also be used as charge for each object in a multi-object print; or Bounding Box Volume (smallest box bounding all objects in print) to cover small-volume/time-intensive prints. For example.

^ 3. Use Bulk Pricing Reduction creatively. e.g. A reduction of 10 or 20% above your First Print cost cold make your small print prices more competitive, and possibly allow you to substantially increase your Object Volume cost and get a “better” large object rate. For example.

^ 4. Test, test, test. Find a successful hub with a sm/md/lg pricing structure you like and compare Marvins and another file or two (particularly objects with odd shapes/sizes) on your hub and theirs until you’ve solved the pricing puzzle. Some costs might just be a few pennies. Figure out what a change in each individual cost does to your final sm/md/lg print costs.

^ IMHO it’s best to separate the calculation of your “actual” hub costs (and profit), from what numbers to apply to a printable object through the 3DHubs pricing structure. To start out at least.

^ Good luck!

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Hi,

I have found 3D Price Software at

Give your customers correct price for 3D Printing Model

You can modify:
1.Price for mm3
2 Your startup price

The software cost £25, if you have any questions pleas feel free to ask 3d.printing.services.uk@gmail.com

thank you