Free tool · for estheticians, nail techs & lash artists
Service-Cost Calculator
You buy gel by the bottle and lashes by the tray, then spend them one client at a time — so the supply never makes it into the price. This free calculator costs one service the way it should be: what its supplies work out to per use, what the room costs for the time it takes, and the hourly you intend to earn. It returns a price floor and, more usefully, the real dollars-per-hour the price you charge today actually pays you. Use it right here in your browser, or download the spreadsheet to keep.
Service-Cost Calculator
Example service shown — edit any fieldWhat the service consumes
What you paid for the container, and how many services you get out of it.
$1.40 per use → $1.40 this service
$1.28 per use → $1.28 this service
$0.50 per use → $0.50 this service
Clears your $45/hr target
What this service genuinely pays you per hour, after supplies and the room.
The suggested price is a floor — what the service must clear to be worth doing, with nothing added for skill, demand, or reputation. This is one service with three supply lines; it doesn't price a full menu, log appointments, track retail margin, or flag who hasn't rebooked (the full workbook does all four). Pre-filled with an illustrative example; replace it with your own numbers. A business reference, not tax, accounting, legal, or clinical advice — your scope of practice and licensing are set by your state board.
Take it with you — free, no signup
Direct download. No email, no account — just the files.
What it does
- Converts what you paid for a container into a cost per use — the unit a price can actually be built from.
- Adds what an hour in your room costs, so a long service carries its true share of the rent.
- Returns a suggested floor price, and flags whether what you charge clears your target hourly.
- Pre-loaded with a worked lash-set example so you can see the method before entering your own.
- Runs entirely in your browser — nothing is sent anywhere, and nothing is saved.
Own it, don't rent it
Want to price the whole menu, not just one service?
This free tool costs one service from three supply lines. The full workbook does your whole menu: a 22-supply cost-per-use library, an 87-line service build, every service priced and flagged on real $/hr, an appointment log that knows what each booking cost to deliver, retail margin, an overdue-client flag, and a take-home split by discipline — a 9-tab workbook you keep (Excel, Google Sheets, or LibreOffice) plus five guides.
A one-time purchase you keep and reuse every time a supplier raises a price — the structured workbook between a blank spreadsheet and a rented monthly studio app.
A business reference, not licensed tax, accounting, legal, or clinical advice. Every figure is illustrative — your supply prices, room rent, and hours are your own. Your scope of practice, sanitation requirements, and license and insurance obligations are set by your state board. Free to use; please don't resell or redistribute.