Costs & pricing

Make cost has up to four components. Two are derived directly from your file; hardware and assembly are your choice.

Materialfrom the slicer

The sliced weight of the print multiplied by the real per-gram price of the filament you chose.

Laborper print-hour

A time charge based on how long the print takes: $3 per print-hour, pro-rated for prints under an hour.

Hardwareno labor

Any non-printed parts you add, such as magnets, inserts, or screws, at their part price. Hardware adds cost but never print labor.

Assemblyoptional

Answer Assemble it when the composer asks and we put it together before it ships, for $1.00 per part in one unit. Answer Ship it loose and the pieces ship loose.

Order minimumper order

Every order is billed at least $2.00 to make. If the make cost of everything in an order adds up to less, the order is charged $2.00. The floor is per order, not per unit.

The components sum to the make cost for one unit: material + labor + hardware + assembly. This is the amount charged to your card when an order is made, subject to the $2.00 order minimum.

When you upload a design, an automated slicer measures it and returns its volume, print time, and dimensions. PrintPort converts that volume into a weight using the filament’s density, then multiplies by that filament’s real per-gram price from the live material inventory:

• Sliced weight = model volume × the filament’s density.
• Material cost = sliced weight × that filament’s per-gram inventory price.

Prices are set per filament from stocked inventory. There is no fixed price table, and different colors or materials can cost different amounts per gram. The weight and the price appear on the receipt rail as you build the product.

Labor is charged on print time at $3.00 per print-hour, the same rate for every hour. Prints under an hour are pro-rated, so a half-hour print is $1.50.

Hardware you add, such as magnets, inserts, and screws, is priced at the part cost only. It is not printed, so it carries no labor charge. Fitting it is part of assembly, below.

Assembly is a choice you make per product. When a unit has two or more pieces, the List it step asks Should we assemble it before it ships? Choose Assemble it and we fit every piece together and check it before packing. The product cannot be saved until you answer. You can add written steps and attach photos, PDFs, or a short video so we build it the way you intend.

• Price: $1.00 for every part in one unit. Every printed copy counts, and so does every hardware piece.
• Example: a lamp with 3 printed parts and 4 magnets is 7 parts, so assembly adds $7.00 to each unit.
• Ship it loose: the pieces go in the box for your customer to put together, and nothing is added.
• A product with a single printed part and no hardware has nothing to assemble, so the question is not asked.

The assembly charge is part of the make cost, so it shows on the receipt rail and in your break-even.

You never enter weight, print time, or dimensions. The slicer produces them from your uploaded file, so you cannot change the make cost by editing a number; the geometry determines it. Lighter, faster-printing models lower the cost on their own.

Baseline slicing runs on a PLA profile. When you select a non-PLA material such as PETG, ABS, or TPU, PrintPort re-slices your file with that material’s real print profile, because print time can differ. Until that re-slice completes, the receipt shows the PLA-baseline time flagged estimate. It updates to the accurate figure automatically once the material-exact slice is ready, with no action required from you.

For more on materials and what is stocked, see Materials & colors and the Material catalog.

Consider a small magnetic phone stand. The slicer measured it, you selected a color, you added two magnets, and you chose to have it assembled so the magnets arrive fitted. PrintPort shows the following receipt.

Every order carries a $2.00 minimum production charge. PrintPort sums the make cost of every unit in the order; if that sum is under $2.00, your card is charged $2.00 instead. The floor applies once per order, never per unit: a $0.60 keychain still lists at $0.60, an order of five is charged $3.00, and an order of one is charged $2.00.

The number shown while you build is a live preview computed in your browser. When you save, PrintPort recomputes the entire make cost on the server from the trusted file geometry and current inventory prices. The preview never becomes the charge on its own.

At save time, PrintPort also snapshots the labor and assembly rates onto your product. This keeps your listed make cost stable: if the platform later adjusts its rates, already-saved products keep the rates they were priced with. The price you saw is the price you get.