Minimum order quantity calculator: setup costs, unit costs and your profit target → the order size that makes it work. Free for sellers.
Suppliers quote a unit price, then mention the tooling fee, the setup charge, the plate cost — and suddenly the "cheap" unit price isn't the real price at all. Enter your full cost picture and your profit goal, and this calculator tells you the minimum order quantity that makes the numbers work, plus what each unit truly costs at that volume.
A $1,500 setup fee spread over 100 units adds $15 to every unit; spread over 3,000 units it adds fifty cents. That is why the first question to any supplier shouldn't be "what's the unit price?" but "what's my all-in cost per unit at the quantity I'd actually order?" The scale table above answers exactly that — watch the cost-per-unit column collapse as quantity rises.
Use target total profit when you have a number in mind ("I need to clear $2,000 on this run"). Use target margin % when you're protecting pricing discipline ("nothing ships under 30% margin"). Both modes account for the setup cost honestly — many sellers forget it and discover their "30% margin" was 12%.
Walk into supplier talks with your MOQ printed out. "I need 800 units to hit my margin at your setup fee — can you do $900 setup on a 1,000-unit trial?" beats haggling over pennies per unit, because setup is usually the softest number on their quote. And if the MOQ comes back absurd, that's data too: the product may simply not fit your price point.
Minimum Order Quantity — the smallest order a supplier will produce. Suppliers set it because setup, tooling and machine time cost the same whether they make 100 units or 10,000. This calculator finds the MOQ that works for your profit target, which may differ from the supplier's quoted MOQ.
Not blindly. Their MOQ protects their margins, not yours. Run your own numbers first — if your profitable MOQ is far above theirs, great; if it's far below, you may be over-ordering and tying up cash in stock.
Negotiate the setup fee (often flexible), simplify the product to cut tooling, or split one setup across product variations. Raising your selling price slightly also drops the MOQ fast — check the price sensitivity table.
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