A confident florist and shop owner in her studio
AI costing & pricing · right from your phone

You made it by hand.
Now price it like a pro.

Snap a receipt, cost the piece, set the price — all on your phone, right at the bench. Costara turns your receipts into the true cost of every piece and the price that protects your margin. The craft is yours. The numbers are ours.

Every piece you make has a number.

The beautiful part is yours. Costara quietly does the other half — what each one truly costs to make, and what it should sell for.

Hand-poured soy candles
Soy pillar candle
cost $3.20retail $1680% margin
Handmade soap bars
Oatmeal soap
cost $1.45retail $882% margin
Handmade jewelry on the bench
Brass hoops
cost $2.10retail $2491% margin
Fresh-baked croissants
Butter croissant
cost $0.95retail $4.5079% margin
A maker finishing a candle
Travel tin candle
cost $2.40retail $1076% margin
from a shoebox of receipts to a confident price · all on your phone

Three moves, and the number is yours.

01

Snap the receipt

Photograph any supplier receipt right from your phone — Costara extracts every line and updates your costs. Or type a purchase in plain words.

02

Cost the unit

Materials, packaging, labor, and overhead roll into a true per-unit cost — fully broken down, with units converted from how you buy to how you use.

03

Set the price

Your markups become wholesale and retail prices, with the margin behind each — and a badge that flags anything underpriced.

inside costara

Everything your bench needs, in one app.

Five screens that turn a pile of receipts into prices you can stand behind — costing, intake, inventory, and margin, each a tap away.

Cost-health dashboard

Your whole cost picture, the moment you open the app.

Average margin, inventory value, and exactly which products need a price review — on one screen. The numbers re-figure themselves every time a cost changes, so you always know where you stand.

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The Costara dashboard showing average margin, inventory value, and the products that need a price review
AI receipt intake

Snap a supplier receipt. Skip the typing.

Photograph any invoice and Costara reads every line, then rolls the new prices straight into your materials. The shoebox of receipts becomes live costs — no spreadsheet, no manual entry.

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A supplier receipt read line by line in Costara, with each material and price extracted
Materials & inventory

Inventory that keeps its own costs.

Track materials the way you buy them and Costara converts to how you use them — by the gram, the metre, the ounce. Every restock updates a weighted-average cost, so your prices never drift out of date.

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The Costara materials list with per-unit costs, suppliers, and on-hand quantities
Products & costing

True cost in. Confident price out.

Build a recipe from materials, labor, and overhead and get a real per-unit cost — fully broken down. Set your markups once and see wholesale and retail prices side by side, with the margin behind each.

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A product recipe in Costara with a full cost breakdown and wholesale and retail prices side by side
Completed batches

Make a batch. Keep the books straight.

Record a production run and Costara draws down the materials it used automatically, so your on-hand quantities and unit costs always reflect what you actually made.

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A completed production batch in Costara drawing materials down from inventory
simple plans · no surprises

Priced like the tool it is.

Solo
$19/mo
Billed monthly

One maker getting their numbers straight.

  • 1 user
  • Up to 25 products
  • 100 receipt credits / mo
  • AI receipt import & costing
  • Suggested wholesale & retail prices
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Most chosen
Pro Maker
$39/mo
Billed monthly

Everything to protect your margin as you grow.

  • 1 user
  • Up to 150 products
  • 500 receipt credits / mo
  • Everything in Solo, plus:
  • Cost-change alerts
  • Supplier analytics & history
  • Data export
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Team
$99/mo
Billed monthly

A growing studio sharing one set of numbers.

  • Up to 4 users
  • Unlimited products
  • 2,000 receipt credits / mo
  • Everything in Pro Maker, plus:
  • Shared inventory & team roles
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Launching later this summer. Join the waitlist and we’ll email you the moment you can sign up.

Compare every feature

Solo$19/moPro Maker$39/moMOST CHOSENTeam$99/mo
Users114
Products25150Unlimited
MaterialsUnlimitedUnlimitedUnlimited
Receipt credits / month1005002,000
AI receipt import
Product costing & pricing
Estimated margin & profit
Cost-change alerts
Supplier analytics & purchase history
Data export
Shared inventory & team roles

Makers who stopped pricing by gut.

“Half my soap bars were barely paying for themselves and I couldn't see it. I nudged a few prices up, dropped a scent that wasn't worth making, and stopped dreading the math at the end of the month.”

Julie C., bath and body maker
Julie C.
Bath and Body Products Maker

“I was pricing my sourdough off whatever the bakery across town charged. Now I know what the flour, starter, and time actually run me per loaf, so the number I quote holds up even when supply prices jump.”

Billy B., baker
Billy B.
Baker

Quotes are illustrative of the costing & pricing value; margins shown across Costara are estimates, not audited figures.

No accounting degree required.

Do I need to be good with numbers?
No — that's the whole point. You snap a photo of a supplier receipt and Costara reads the line items and prices; you just review what it found and accept it. From there it works out the true cost of each product and suggests a wholesale and retail price, always showing the margin behind the number so you can see at a glance whether a price is healthy. Nothing is buried in a formula you can't follow, and nothing changes until you say so. If you can take a photo and tap “accept,” you can price like a pro.
I buy in bulk but sell singles.
That's exactly what Costara is built for. Track a material the way you actually buy it — a 50 lb sack of flour, a case of jars, a 100 m roll of ribbon — and use it the way you actually make: by the gram, the unit, or the metre. Costara converts between the two automatically, so a candle that uses 180 g of wax from a 5 kg box is costed correctly without you doing any division. Buy in bulk, make in batches, sell singles — the per-unit cost always reflects what one finished item really took.
Is my data mine?
Completely. Your products, materials, receipts, and prices belong to you, not us. Export everything to CSV or Excel whenever you want, or download your full account, and delete your account and all associated data at any time. We don't sell your data, and the margins shown in Costara are your own estimates based on your costs and prices — private working numbers, never shared. It's your business; Costara just keeps the math straight.
A florist arranging stems

Make the thing. Charge what it's worth.

Costara is launching later this summer. Join the waitlist and we'll email you the moment you can sign up.

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launching later this summer

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Costara is almost ready. Join the waitlist and we'll email you the moment you can sign up — and start pricing every piece with confidence.