Before calculating

Confirm that grams and hours are per attempt for one part, quantity means successful parts, labor minutes are in the right per-order or per-part bucket, and electricity is priced per kWh.

Replace illustrative defaults with measured consumption, actual purchase costs, and your chosen allocation assumptions. Check that resale value does not exceed purchase price.

Before sharing

Check your quoted price against the suggested price and review the margin after percentage fees. Include taxes or other excluded charges through your own quoting process.

Copy quote exports a price summary without internal cost details. The print report, CSV, and JSON contain internal information. Review them before sharing. No input fields are put in URL query strings or fragments.

After printing

Enter actual material, machine time, and labor for the entire order. Review positive cost variance as an overrun and negative variance as a saving against the estimate.

Export a backup of saved jobs before clearing browser storage. Restore saved backup validates and merges snapshots without replacing existing jobs; duplicate jobs are skipped. Confirm deletion only when the named record or complete saved-job list is the scope you intend.

Run a reproducible acceptance check

Before relying on a changed job, reproduce the pricing guide example with zero fees: 120 g, six hours, $24/kg, $800 purchase price, zero resale, 4,000 service hours, $0.10/hour maintenance, 120 W, $0.20/kWh, 10% failure, 15 minutes setup, 20 minutes finishing, $30/hour labor, $10 fulfillment and 40% margin. Quantity one should produce $32.86 production cost and a $54.77 suggested price.

Then change only quantity to ten. Production cost should become $171.10 and suggested order price $285.17. Setup and fulfillment should stay fixed. This is a useful units and scope check, not proof that your own inputs or the print are correct.

Check the customer-facing terms separately

Confirm the currency, quantity, model revision, material, finish, delivery arrangement and quote validity in your own customer message. State whether taxes and delivery are included. The copied quote is a price summary, not a complete contract or a promise of dimensional accuracy.

After changing any input, recheck the entered selling price. A previously accepted price can fall below the new target even when the suggested price updates correctly. Review both contribution dollars and margin before sharing the revised quote.