#fuse bead pricing spreadsheet

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Man, it's been a hot minute since I was active in the fuse bead community. 🫠

Someone on Reddit asked about this post because it was linked to my old pkmnmastertash-creations blog instead of manicmadegeekery. I dunno if reblogging it here will help correct the issue but maybe if someone's googling the title of that post this one will come up instead. I also have no idea of the programs will work on modern machines, I wrote em on Windows 7 I'm pretty sure?

That being said, I also linked them what is essentially v2 of these apps. I ended up making myself a spreadsheet to punch in more details that should factor into what you're selling and is generally more accurate than just assuming everyone beads at the same speeds.

I wanted to slap the link to that into this post too, again, in case anyone comes across this and finds it helpful. It's probably hella outdated and I don't have any plans to update it.

Hell, while I'm at it; here's my old ass ironing tutorials too. I see them shared from time to time so they must still be helping people 🤷‍♀️

They're rambly, and probably cringe but I don't feel like rewatching them to find out 😂

Also, no matter your craft, your skills are worth something. Don't undersell yourself. Know your worth and the value of what you create!

There's more to pricing than just what you think something is worth, but seriously. If you're making something with the intentions of selling, don't sell your self short. It's always harder to majorly increase prices than it is to lower them slightly.

I have opinions, don't mind me.

Fuse Bead Sales Price Calculator!

Even though I’m on a hiatus from beading for a bit, I wanted to share something I finished today! As some of you may know I’m currently attending college for a course in computer networking, but since taking the mandatory programming class I’ve found I’m really enjoying it. A lot. So much so that I wrote my own little program!

So folks, “What does the program do?” You ask? Well, let me tell you! It takes a couple pieces of information from you, does some simple highly complex math, and spits out a rough price for you to sell your fuse bead art for!

I have 2 versions! They both ask the same questions and give you the same results, it’s just a matter of how you want to run the program. Both of them start by double clickin’ the Bead Cost Calculator .bat file

First the programs will ask you for the amount of beads in your project. (If you don’t know how to find this out, I wrote a tutorial for GIMP 2.8 a little bit ago. Then they ask how much you paid for a bag of 1000 beads. You can be as exact as you’d like ($3.73) or as basic as you’d like ($3). Next they ask you how much you charge per hour of work. Again it can be as exact or a basic as you’d like. After gathering your information, the programs then do some math, and give you a total price! Of course this is just a suggested price, feel free to round or change it as necessary!

Now about the 2 versions! One is command prompt based, and does everything through that. As seen below.

The second version is a pop up notification style. (Note: command prompt will still open in the background when you run the .bat file, but it will close on it’s own when the program is done.) This one looks like this!

Onto the goodies!

You can snag the Command Prompt version from here! And the Pop Up version from here!

When you download the file, it is a .rar file so you will need to extract it first. You can get a program like 7zip and it will work perfectly. Extract it to it’s own folder and then simply double click the Bead Cost Calculator file and run! You do need to keep the two files together for it to work though.

If you’ve got any questions, or are having any trouble, feel free to let me know and I’ll do my best to help!

For now, enjoy!