What is a job?
A job in Sunday Maker is a production run — a specific batch of work you're pricing and tracking. It might be 50 sublimation tumblers for a corporate order, a dozen laser-engraved cutting boards, or a batch of candles you're making for a market.
Jobs answer two questions: what did this batch cost to make, and what's my profit if I sell it at a given price?
How to start a job
Go to Jobs in the sidebar and click + New Job. You can start a job two ways:
- From a saved product — select a product you've already costed. The job pre-fills with that product's materials, processes, and pricing. This is the fastest path and keeps your costing consistent across runs.
- From scratch — build the job manually if you're costing a one-off or testing a new product setup.
What goes into a job
The job builder walks you through each cost component:
- Material — your blank, sheet good, or base material and its cost per unit
- Processes / steps — each production step with equipment time (pulls from your equipment hourly rate) and any consumables used in that step
- Packaging — boxes, bags, tags, and anything else that goes with the finished piece
- Setup cost — any one-time cost for the run (design time, setup fee) spread across the batch
- Maker labor — your hourly rate × the time you spend on the run
- Shipping — optional, if you're including shipping materials or a shipping charge
How the math works
Sunday Maker calculates your cost per unit by adding up all contributors and dividing by quantity:
Total production cost ÷ quantity = cost per unit
From cost per unit, you set your target margin or a sell price, and the job calculator shows you:
- Unit sell price — what to charge per piece
- Run revenue — total if all units sell at that price
- Run profit — revenue minus total production cost
- Net sell price — after channel fees (Etsy, Shopify, wholesale, etc.)
Snapshots and saved numbers
When you save a job, Sunday Maker snapshots all the costs at that moment — the material prices, equipment rates, and consumable costs as they are right now. This means if your material costs change later, your saved jobs accurately reflect what things cost when you ran them. It's how you track real historical profitability over time.
Jobs vs products
Products are templates — the standard recipe and pricing for something you make regularly. Jobs are instances — a specific run at a specific quantity with specific costs. Think of a product as your recipe card and a job as your production log for a particular batch. You'll typically have one product record and many jobs that reference it.