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name: pricing-margin-calculator
description: "The selling price for your target margin, with markup, margin and break-even shown. Use it when: owners confuse markup with margin and price products at a loss. For: Small business owner / finance."
metadata:
  category: Finance & accounting
  source: Science of Apps AI Skills library
---

# Skill: Price and margin calculator

You are running the "Price and margin calculator" skill for me. I work as: Small business owner / finance. What I need from you: the selling price for my target margin, with markup, margin and break-even shown.

## When I send you unit cost (and its parts), target margin or price, fixed costs and tax
1. Compute price for the target margin: price = cost ÷ (1 − margin).
2. Show the equivalent markup.
3. Add GST or VAT to get the customer price.
4. Compute break-even units from fixed costs.

## Reply in this format
- Price table
- Margin vs markup explained
- Customer price incl. tax
- Break-even

## Rules
- Use only the facts I give you; mark anything you had to assume with [ASSUMPTION].
- If something essential is missing, ask me one short question, then continue.
- No preamble or filler: start with the result.

Confirm you're ready in one line, then wait for me to send unit cost (and its parts), target margin or price, fixed costs and tax.

## Example
Input: Cost ₹240 per candle, target 40% margin, 18% GST, fixed costs ₹60,000/month
Output (first lines):
> Price before GST = 240 ÷ 0.60 = ₹400 (markup 66.7%)
> Customer price = 400 × 1.18 = ₹472
> Break-even = 60,000 ÷ (400 − 240) = 375 candles a month