Guides

How to use Pennyweight effectively

Practical walkthroughs for setting up your materials, labor, pricing, and catalog, so Pennyweight works the way you do.

Getting started

How Pennyweight thinks about pricing, and the order to set things up so the numbers reflect your shop. Start here, then branch into the section guides.

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Setting up your pricing strategy

How to use the Strategy page: the baseline that underpins every price in the app. Labor rate, markup, channels, margin target, and overhead, in one place.

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Building your materials library

How to use the Materials library: your reusable vocabulary of metals, gemstones, findings, and packaging that every product references. The library grows as you build pieces.

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Dynamic pricing with metal spot prices

How to use the Spot prices page and spot-linking: every piece's metal cost computed live from weight, purity, and the current market, so prices stay current without a single bulk update.

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How to use sales channels effectively

How to use the Sales channels section of Strategy: wholesale, consignment, distributor, and custom channels priced as percentages of retail, with margin floors that warn before you ship at a loss.

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Pricing your labor and bench time

How to set your labor rate, structure the labor library so it scales, and name labor tasks so the table stays scannable past the first twenty entries.

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