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Anvil HUD

Everything it does

One forge. A whole shop's worth of tools.

Anvil HUD started as a 3D printing calculator and grew into a workbench for the whole business: pricing, catalog, jobs, orders, marketplace sync, inventory, and the books. Here is the full tour, with an honest tag on what each piece needs.

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The pricing engine

The core, and always free. Three purpose-built engines, every line published.

Drop a file or fill a form, get a line-by-line price

Free

3D prints read weight, time, and colors off the G-code. Laser cuts read the footprint and cut length off an SVG. Every other craft is form-driven. The engine then layers material, machine or mold, labor, packaging, a failure buffer, overhead, your target margin, and the channel's fees.

Three engines in one forge

Free

One prices a maker's unit for the shelf, one bids a trade or service job bottom-up, and one amortizes a digital file over a run. 12 maker crafts, 18 trades, 7 services, and a digital line.

Fees and shipping baked in, not bolted on

Free

Marketplace cuts, payment processing, listing fees, and weight-based shipping are part of the math, not an afterthought. Free-shipping thresholds let you absorb the carrier cost on purpose and see the take-home hit.

Audit every number

Free

The whole formula is published in plain English at /the-math, and each line of a breakdown sits next to where it came from. Argue with the number when it looks wrong, trust it when it looks right.

Quick starts

Free

Begin from a tuned starting point instead of a blank form. Pre-built templates for trades and services, and one-tap presets that prefill the estimator for makers and digital products. Every line stays yours to edit.

Free to try, free to use

No card, no commitment. A lot of Anvil costs nothing.

Try it with no account

Free

Live demo estimators for every craft, trade, and service: the real engine on researched presets, nothing stored, no sign-in. Price your own work before you ever make an account.

Eight free calculators

Free

A public calculators hub: marketplace fees (what Etsy, Amazon, eBay, and the processors really take), wholesale and keystone pricing, the hourly rate you need to charge, bulk price breaks, plus paint, flooring, concrete, and roofing take-offs. No account needed.

A free plan that stays useful

Free

The full cost engine on every craft, up to 10 saved products, and single-shop pricing, free forever with no card. Upgrade only when you want the history surfaces.

Catalog and quoting

Save what you make, price it for every channel you sell on.

Save your products

Free

Keep every product across every craft, with collections and size variants. Free covers up to 10 saved products; any paid plan is unlimited.

Per-shop pricing

Pro

Tag a product with the shops you list it on. The same piece shows $8 on your site and $9.49 on Etsy, with each channel's fees applied. Project totals know when parts ship in one box under one listing, so fees only bite once.

Sale mode

Free

Flip on a sale, set the advertised discount, and every card shows the sticker to post so the platform's X% off lands where you want it, either holding your current price or driving down to a floor margin.

Wholesale and keystone pricing

Pro

Add a wholesale channel and a product prices cost-plus your wholesale margin, with no marketplace fees, alongside a suggested keystone MSRP for your buyer to resell at. The same engine, run for the wholesale case.

Work in your currency

Free

Switch the display currency across your catalog and breakdowns, with a quick built-in converter, so every number reads in the money you actually price in.

Quotes, price sheets, and CSV export

Free

Build a branded multi-item quote, print a price sheet, or export your whole catalog to CSV. Only buyer-facing prices show on a quote, never your internal cost or margin.

Jobs, queue, and capacity

Turn pricing into a working pipeline.

Job queue and log

Pro

Queue jobs (prints, cuts, pours, bars, firings) and log outcomes from the same screen: success, failure, what it actually used. Multi-part products group into one project run.

Learned failure rate

Pro

After 5 logged jobs of a product, the assumed 10% buffer is replaced by your shop's real rate, automatically. Pricing sharpens as you ship.

Capacity planner

Pro

From your live queue and each job's expected time, see when a machine frees up and when queued work finishes, plus a can-I-promise-by-this-date check.

Dashboards and Insights

Two lenses on the same data, plus an advisor that reads it for you.

Hobbyist and Seller dashboards

Pro

Hobbyist shows what your craft is costing: time, material, machine wear, value made. Seller shows what it's earning: revenue, take-home, fee drag, top earners.

Insights advisor

Pro

Findings built from your real sales and failure data: products selling at a loss, thin margins, idle listings, and filament running low, each linked to where you fix it.

Achievements

Free

Count-based milestones across making, money, time, and the digital line, so the long grind has markers along the way.

Frozen cost basis

Pro

A recorded sale is a historical fact. Its cost, revenue, fees, and take-home freeze at sale time, so changing an assumption later moves only your catalog price and new sales, never rewriting history.

Sales, orders, and channels

Where the money actually lands, pulled in from everywhere you sell.

First-class orders

Free

Record a sale and it becomes a real order with its own number. Multi-item orders group into one card; marketplace orders keep their real order number.

Marketplace auto-sync

Pro

Connect Etsy, Square, Shopify, and WooCommerce to pull orders in automatically, matched to your catalog and recorded as sales through each channel's fees.

Website order feed

Pro

Your own Stripe-checkout sites can push orders straight into Anvil, so an order in queues the work, runs the finishing cycle, and records the sale just like a marketplace order.

Import from CSV

Pro

Bring in products, past sales, stock levels, expenses, and clients from a spreadsheet, deduped so running the same import twice never double-records.

Inventory

Know what you have, what you are burning, and what to buy next.

Track stock across crafts

Pro

Track only the materials you choose, in their natural units. A finished job auto-decrements what it consumed, with a full movement ledger behind every change.

Burn-rate forecast and restock list

Pro

Each tracked item shows days of cover from your real recent usage, and one prioritized restock list pulls together what's out, low, or running low soon, across every craft.

Low-stock email alerts

Pro

When a finished job drops a tracked material to its reorder point, one email tells you what's low. Opt in by setting a reorder point; opt out anytime.

Made-to-stock shelf

Pro

Make ahead and the unit's cost rides on the shelf as an asset, then releases as cost of goods only when it sells, so material is counted once, not twice.

Run the business

The tools that turn a maker into a shop. Shop / Business tier.

Business profiles

Business

Keep one or more business identities (a parent company and its brand shops) with your contact details, pay link, and tax id. They become the from-address on your invoices, proposals, and quotes.

Invoicing

Business

Turn a won bid into a sequential, printable invoice, add your own pay-online link, and mark it sent or paid.

Clients

Business

A light CRM: save clients and contacts with per-client history of their bids and invoices, and start a new bid for a client in one click.

Expenses and real P&L

Business

Log overhead (subscriptions, rent, tools, bulk buys) and see a true net number: revenue minus fees, absorbed shipping, cost of goods, and overhead, with a by-category breakdown and a year-end CSV.

For trades and services

The bid engine has its own run-a-job lifecycle.

Bottom-up bids

Free

Build a bid line by line: materials, labor, waste, allowances, and subcontractors, then general conditions, contingency, overhead, and profit. Quick-start templates get you most of the way for common jobs.

Client proposals

Business

Export a branded, itemized proposal for the client, priced from the same bid, never showing your internal cost build-up.

Pipeline and scheduling

Business

Track win rate and open value across your bids, then schedule a won job onto an agenda: scheduled, on site, done, all the way to the invoice.

Saved trade rates and templates

Business

Save your default loaders per trade and your own tuned jobs as reusable Quick-start templates, so the next bid starts from your numbers.

Built for trust

The product habits underneath all of it.

Installable app

Free

Anvil HUD installs as a PWA on phone and desktop, works offline for the engine, and recovers cleanly from a stale build.

Your data is yours

Free

Download a complete all-crafts backup of your account as JSON anytime, and tune every assumption the engine uses with a field-by-field guide.

Honest estimates

Free

Estimates are labeled as estimates with a tune-to-your-reality note. No black box, no marketing math, no surprise lines.

The engine is free. Always.

Price anything, on any craft, without an account. Sign up to save your products. Go Pro when you want the history surfaces, and Business when you want to run the books.