Breakeven & Pricing Report
Tell us your monthly fixed costs, your price per sale and what each sale costs you to deliver. We calculate your exact breakeven point (units and revenue per month) and your contribution margin, then our AI explains what it means in plain English, walks through three pricing scenarios, and shows the practical levers to lower your breakeven. General information, not financial advice.
Two figures decide whether a month ends in profit: what you charge for a sale, and what that sale costs you to deliver. The Breakeven & Pricing Report takes those, along with your monthly fixed costs and the type of business you run, and returns your exact breakeven point in units and in revenue per month, your contribution margin per sale in dollars and as a percentage, and a plain-English read on what a margin of that size says about the business. It is A$29, one-off, and it lands on your order page in about five minutes as an on-page report plus a Markdown download you can print to PDF or paste into Word.
Why the sums aren't left to the AI
Breakeven units, breakeven revenue and contribution margin are calculated deterministically. Same inputs, same answer, every time, with no model guessing at the sums. The AI picks up where the arithmetic stops: reading the result and saying what a margin at that level tends to mean for the kind of business you described, and what it implies for the way you price.
Which also means the report inherits the quality of the numbers you feed it. Fixed costs that quietly leave out insurance, software subscriptions or your own wage will produce a breakeven that reads lower than the real one. Nothing is fetched on your behalf — there is no link to your bank, your accounting software or your point-of-sale, and the whole document is built from what you type in. The most valuable ten minutes of this exercise happen before you start, pulling accurate figures rather than estimating them.
What a price move actually does to the number
Pricing arguments stall because nobody quantifies the trade-off. Lift the price and each sale carries more margin, so breakeven falls — provided volume holds. Drop it to chase volume and breakeven climbs, often further than owners expect. You get all three positions written out, hold, raise and cut, with the breakeven impact of each, so the decision runs on figures instead of nerve.
What the scenarios will not do is predict your customers. There is no competitor research, no market rates and no demand modelling behind them. They describe the mathematical consequence of a price move, not how many people will still buy at the new number. That judgment stays with you.
Sitting alongside them is the list of practical levers for lowering your breakeven, ranked by how easy each one is to pull. Some live in your fixed costs, some in what each sale costs to deliver, some in the price itself. The ranking is there so you start with the change you can make this month rather than the one that looks biggest on paper.
Where the report is meant to end up
The Markdown download exists because a document like this usually gets shown to someone else — a business partner, a bookkeeper, an accountant. If the first pass leans the wrong way, two AI revisions are included: simpler language, more depth on one of the scenarios, or a different emphasis if it missed what you were actually worried about.
Treat the result as general information rather than financial advice. It is a fast, unsentimental read on your own numbers and a sound place to start a pricing conversation, but anything that drives a material decision belongs in front of someone who can see your full position — tax, cash flow, debt, the parts a A$29 report never touches.
What you get
- Your exact breakeven point — units and revenue per month (calculated)
- Contribution margin per sale, in dollars and as a percentage
- A plain-English margin analysis: what the numbers say about your business
- Three pricing-scenario narratives (hold, raise, cut) with the breakeven impact of each
- The practical levers to lower your breakeven, ranked by ease
- 2 free AI revisions included
Turnaround: ~5 minutes. Delivery: On-page report + Markdown download (print to PDF / paste to Word).
Frequently asked questions
What counts as a fixed cost, and what counts as a variable one?
Fixed costs are what you pay each month regardless of how much you sell: rent, insurance, subscriptions, base wages, your accountant. Variable costs are what an individual sale costs you to deliver: materials, freight, payment processing, contractor time on that job. The rule of thumb is that if the cost only appears when a sale happens, it is variable. The report works with the split you enter, so the judgment call is yours.
My variable cost is different on every job. What do I put in?
One price per sale and one variable cost per sale go in, so use a typical job rather than your best or worst one — or an average across the last few months if your work varies a lot. The breakeven you get back then describes an average job, which is usually the right unit for a pricing decision anyway.
Can a business with more than one product line use this?
Yes, with a choice to make. Either run it on your main line and treat that as the number that matters, or enter a weighted average price and average variable cost across your mix. Covering a second product line properly means a second A$29 report, since each one is built around a single price and a single variable cost.
Should I trust the breakeven figure enough to act on it?
The calculation itself is exact — arithmetic performed deterministically on the figures you supply, not an estimate. The accuracy of the answer therefore rests entirely on your inputs. A rough guess at monthly fixed costs yields a precisely calculated but misleading breakeven, which is one reason this is general information rather than something to act on unreviewed.
Do I get a spreadsheet I can change the inputs in?
No. Delivery is the report on your order page plus a Markdown download, ready to print to PDF or paste into Word. Testing a different set of assumptions means a fresh run rather than editing a live model, though the two included AI revisions cover rework of the written report itself.