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What an item really earns
(Price − True Cost) ÷ Price × 100 — and true cost includes your time, not just materials.
56%
real margin vs 76% materials-only
3
cost inputs: materials, time, overhead
item-level
not one combined guess
Calculate your real margin
$27.00
true cost (materials + time + overhead)
$23.00
real profit per sale
46%
real margin
Materials-cost-only, this would look like a 76% margin — counting your time and a fair share of overhead brings it to the real 46%. See Profit & Loss for how Noxtill tracks this automatically, per item.
Profit Margin Calculator: before and after
Without Noxtill
- Margin guessed from materials cost alone
- Staff time never counted as a real cost
- One item's true earnings hidden in a combined total
With Noxtill
- True cost includes materials, time and overhead
- A worked example shows the real percentage
- Margin visible per item, not just overall
A $50 service with $22 true cost is a 56% margin — not the 76% materials alone would suggest.
Simple formula
Worked example
Time counted as cost
Per-item accuracy
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