Calculator
Custom blend price calculator
Enter what one batch actually consumed and see the loaded cost per finished bottle, a working shelf price, and what the whole batch contributes.
Free tools
Free calculators for herbalists who make what they sell
Two small tools that answer the questions a formulation bench raises every week, with realistic defaults you can overwrite with your own numbers.
Herbal pricing goes wrong in the same two places. Bench time is treated as free, and press loss is ignored, so a 24 bottle batch is priced as though it yielded 30. The blend price calculator puts herb cost, menstruum, packaging and your own hours into one number per finished bottle, then works up to a shelf price you can defend to yourself when a client asks why the custom formula costs more than the shelf tincture next to it.
The second tool is about exposure rather than money. If a supplier calls about a lot of valerian, how many batches did that lot land in, how many bottles are in the field, and how many hours of paper chasing does the trace cost you. Run it once with honest numbers and you will see why a numbering habit at intake is worth an afternoon of setup.
Calculator
Ingredient lot trace exposure calculator
See how far one questionable herb lot reaches into your production and what it would cost you in hours to reconstruct the trail by hand.
Working document
The traceable batch record sheet
One page you can print, clip to the bench and fill in as you work, built so any finished bottle traces back to the jars it came out of.
Open to anyone with a scale and a press
You already run this arithmetic. It happens on the back of a batch sheet while the marc is draining, or in your head at the herb wall when a five pound bag of nettle comes in dearer than the last one. Herb and menstruum cost divided by the bottles you actually filled after press loss. Bench hours nobody charged for. Six open jars multiplied by nine batches a month. These calculators only hold that arithmetic still long enough to look at, so there is no sign up in front of them and no email box between you and the answer.
They are worth something on their own even if you never write to us. Run the blend price calculator against your last three tincture batches and you come away with a real yield factor for your own press instead of a figure copied out of a formulary. Run the lot trace calculator once and you will know how many batch records a single questionable valerian lot would pull in, and how many bottles are already in customer cabinets. Those two numbers change how you price a custom formula and how carefully you code an incoming bag, whether or not any software ever reaches your bench.
If those figures came out worse than you expected
Most owners run the blend price calculator and find that the custom formulas, not the shelf tinctures, are the thin line. Others run the trace numbers and stop at the hours figure. A demo shows the same arithmetic coming off real batch records, with gram weights, press yield and intake lot codes already recorded rather than typed in. Half an hour, your own formulas, nothing to move that day.