MakerMargin is closing. Your numbers don't have to.

If you use MakerMargin — the Etsy-only profit tool at getmakermargin.com, the one that reads your Etsy orders file and tells you what you actually made on each product — you will have seen the banner on their site: MakerMargin is closing on November 11, 2026, and new accounts and trials are no longer available.

A quick note so there's no confusion: there is a different product with a similar name at makermargin.app, aimed at market and fair vendors. That one is not closing, and it isn't what this page is about. This page is for sellers using the Etsy tool at getmakermargin.com.

We're sorry to see it go. It was a small tool, run by one person, built on the same belief we built TrueCost on: a handmade seller should be able to see her real profit per product, not just her revenue. If it helped you price better, it did its job.

This page exists for one practical reason: before November 11, save what you can — and if you still want a tool that does this job afterwards, here's how TrueCost compares, honestly.

First: rescue your numbers before Nov 11

Whatever you decide about your next tool, do this while you still can:

1. Export or download everything MakerMargin offers you — your product costs, your order history, any year-end or tax-ready report. Save the files somewhere of your own.
2. Download your orders files from Etsy itself (Shop Manager → Settings → Options → Download Data). Etsy is the original source of that data, and it stays available to you no matter what happens to any tool built on top of it.
3. Keep those files. They are your records, for taxes and for your own history, whichever tool you use next.

What carries over to TrueCost

The core workflow you know is the same here, because the problem is the same:

• No Etsy password, ever. TrueCost never asks you to connect your Etsy account. You drop in the same orders CSV you export from Etsy — the same file MakerMargin used.
• Cost each product once. Enter your materials once, build each product as a recipe (materials + packaging + your time at your hourly rate + the shipping label), and every product's true cost stays current when a material price changes.
• The full Etsy fee stack, counted exactly. 6.5% transaction fee on price plus shipping charged, 3% + $0.25 payment processing per order, $0.20 listing fee per unit, and Offsite Ads at 15% or 12% when they apply. A $25 item with $5 shipping charged costs exactly $3.30 in fees — you can check our free fee calculator against your own statement, line by line.
• Orders rollup with loss-makers flagged. Drop in your orders file and see real profit per product, with the ones losing money marked. One honest warning that applies to every tool, ours included: since July 2025, Etsy's orders file runs about two weeks behind, permanently. Treat any rollup — MakerMargin's or ours — as your month-end picture, not today's.

The honest differences

We would rather you see the gaps in a table than find them after switching. If the income-goal calculator or multi-country fees are the features you lean on, TrueCost isn't your replacement yet, and we'd rather say so plainly.

How to move over

We'll be straight with you: there is no automatic importer. MakerMargin didn't offer a way to hand your shop to another tool, and we won't pretend a file upload does more than it does. Moving means re-entering your costs once. The fastest order to do it in:

1. Start with your materials. Add the ones you buy most, with the price you pay and the unit you buy in (ounces, pounds, millilitres — the picker converts for you). Your exported MakerMargin costs, if you saved them, make this a copying job rather than a remembering job.
2. Rebuild your bestsellers first, then anything you suspect loses money. A shop's important products are usually a short list; the rest can follow when you next make them.
3. Set your labour rate — what you pay yourself per hour. Every recipe uses it, so your true cost includes your time, not just your supplies.
4. Drop in your latest Etsy orders file and compare the rollup against what MakerMargin told you for the same period. The numbers should agree — both tools are counting the same fees on the same orders. If they don't, the free calculator lets you check a single sale by hand.

After that one pass, you're back to the habit you already had: cost it once, check the rollup at month end.

Try it before you decide anything

The free Etsy fee calculator needs no sign-up and keeps nothing. The workspace loads a sample shop — a candle maker whose bestseller makes $5.68 a sale and whose wax melts quietly lose $0.43 on every single-item order — so you can see exactly how your own products would be graded before you enter a single one.

Guides from our smaller library

• The ad fee Etsy charges without asking — how Offsite Ads work, when the $100 cap saves you real money, and the opt-out rules.
• Sold $229.50, banked $203.20 — where the difference between your sales and your deposit actually goes.
• A 20% sale is not a 20% pay cut — it's worse — the fee-by-fee math on our sample candle, and the stand-still number.

MakerMargin's closing is a loss for the sellers who relied on it, and we won't pretend otherwise. If TrueCost can carry the part of the job you cared about, we'll be glad it did.

— TrueCost, gettruecosts.com