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Farmers Market Booth Break-Even Calculator
Find out how much you need to sell just to cover the booth fee, your other market-day costs, and what your time is worth.
Your market day costs
Other fixed day costs (gas, help, samples, ice, add as many as you need)
Your time
Turns your own time into a real cost, not a free favor to the booth.
Your results
How to use it
Enter your booth fee and any other fixed costs for the day (gas, a helper, samples, ice). Then add your market hours and prep hours, and what you want to pay yourself per hour, so the day’s real cost includes your time, not just your cash outlay. Add what you expect to sell to see your profit for the whole day, not just the break-even point.
This tool sticks to fees and hours on purpose. Most vendors sell a table of different items, not one thing at one price, so a single “profit per unit” number does not hold up. Tracking margin item by item across everything you sell is exactly what Traders Till does once it is logging your real sales.
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FAQ
Booth break-even, frequently asked
Why does my desired hourly rate matter?
What if I sell more than one kind of product?
Should I count gas and help as fixed costs?
How is this different from a break-even for my whole business?
Know before you pack the car.
Traders Till logs your booth fees and per-market costs automatically, so every market’s break-even and profit recompute from your real sales.