Recipes — Your Price Formulas
Every recipe setting in Print Price Engine — ingredients, markup, wastage, rounding, preset sizes, dimension limits, cut shapes, and product assignment.
A recipe is the complete price formula for a product type: which ingredients go in, what margin you take, what sizes customers may order, and which products it powers.
The pricing controls#
| Setting | What it does |
|---|---|
| Ingredients | The ingredients in this product, each with a quantity |
| Markup | Multiplier on variable (material) costs — 1.5 = 50% margin on materials. Fixed costs pass through at cost |
| Rounding | Optional price ending, e.g. 0.99 turns $12.37 into $12.99. Without it, prices round up to the cent |
| Wastage buffer | Extra material allowed per job — added to each dimension before the area is costed |
| Discount rule set | Optional link to a volume discount tier set |
The size controls#
- Preset sizes — one-click size tiles (e.g. "A4 — 21 × 29.7 cm"), shown as a grid or list
- Allow custom sizes — let customers type their own width × height
- Min/max width & height — hard bounds; the calculator won't quote outside them
- Quantity style — quantity as tap-tiles or a stepper input
- Dimensions use your global unit — mm, cm, inch, or foot, set once in Settings
Production settings#
For die-cut products, recipes also carry production metadata that rides along to the order:
- Cut shape — Rectangle, Square, Circle, or Oval
- Corner radius and bleed (default 2 mm)
- Media background — Clear, White, or Holographic
Extras#
- Custom options — dropdowns, radios, or priced text fields; see Options & Artwork Uploads
- Artwork upload — toggle the drag-and-drop upload field per recipe
Assigning recipes to products#
Two mechanisms, mixable:
- Manual assignment — pick specific products (or single variants, so "Matte" and "Gloss" variants can carry different recipes).
- Collection link — link the recipe to a Shopify collection and every product in it is covered; the link stays in sync automatically as products join or leave the collection.
Products without any recipe simply show standard Shopify pricing — the calculator stays hidden.
Most print shops need surprisingly few recipes: one per process (vinyl stickers, banners, canvas), not one per product. Assign each recipe to a collection and new products price themselves the moment you add them to the collection.
Related guides#
- The Storefront Calculator — what customers see per recipe
- Getting Started — first recipe walkthrough
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