Bouquet pricing calculator
How should I price my bouquets, and how many can my flower beds make each week?
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Bouquet price for your margin
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- Cost per bouquet
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- Stems cost
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- Stems in the bouquet
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- Profit per bouquet
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- Your time, at your wage
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The cost per stem is your own: what a stem costs you to buy, or your seed, plants and growing costs divided by the stems you cut. Your records are the best source.
The price is rounded up to the cent, so you never keep less than the margin you asked for.
Bouquets a week
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- Saleable stems a week
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- Stems left over a week
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- Bouquets in the season
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- Takings a week
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- Plants for your weekly target
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Stems per plant change with the variety, the season and how often you cut. Use your own cutting records.
Only whole bouquets are counted. Leftover stems are shown so you can use them in smaller bunches.
Enter your numbers to see the result.
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"Use TallyTill: How should I price my bouquets, and how many can my flower beds make each week?"
What you will see
- The calculator opens in the chat with the numbers you gave already filled in. Change any number and the answer updates.
- If a number is missing, the box is highlighted, or the AI asks you for it in plain words.
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How this is worked out
A bouquet's cost is each flower's stems times what one stem costs you, added up, plus the sleeve, any other costs, and your minutes times your hourly wage divided by 60 if you enter both. The price for a margin is that cost divided by one minus the margin, rounded up to the cent, so you never keep less than you asked for. From a bed, the stems a week are the plants times the stems each plant gives a week, times the share good enough to sell. Whole bouquets are those stems divided by the stems in a bouquet, rounded down; what is left over is shown. The plants a target needs are the bouquets times the stems in each, divided by the saleable stems one plant gives, rounded up.
A worked example
Example numbers only; use your own. A bouquet of 5 zinnias at 0.60 a stem, 3 snapdragons at 0.85 and 4 filler stems at 0.40 has 7.15 of stems. With a 0.75 sleeve, 0.25 of bands and flower food, and 6 minutes at 18.00 an hour (1.80), it costs 9.95. For a 50 percent margin, charge 19.90. A bed of 30 plants, each giving 2.5 stems a week of which 80 percent are good enough to sell, gives 60 stems: 5 bouquets of 12. Eight bouquets a week would take 48 plants.
Nothing you type here is saved.