Research indicates most of our supplies won’t charge for shipping, or the shipping is already included in the above price.
Total Cost to Produce Merchandise
$5,554
Packaging to Mail to Kickstarter Backers
To ship these items, we’ll need to buy boxes and other supplies. We expect to buy all our packaging materials from ValueMailers.com, except for the protective sleeves, which come from theboxdepot.com.
Item
Number
Total Price
Bubble Wrap
2 Roll @ 175 sq. ft.
$28
Small Baggies (to protect merchandise during shipping)
1,000
$27
Protective Sleeves for Postcards
400
$22
Protective Sleeves for Art Prints
400
$44
Box for Book Alone (9 1/2″ by 6 1/2″ by 1.25″)
300
$240
Box for Book + Flat Merchandise (11 1/8″ by 8 5/8″ by 2″)
200
$188
Box for Book + Bulky Merchandise (10″ x 8″ x 5″)
25
$42
Priority Mail 2 Day Medium Box (Provided by USPS)
100
$0
Packing Tape (2″ wide rolls)
72 (cheapest in bulk)
$103
Total Packaging Costs
$694
Other Expenses
Other expenses, unsurprisingly, cropped up while we were working on the Kickstarter. These include:
Item
Number
Total Price
Notes
Royalty Payments
41
$200
Royalty payments to Tris Lawrence for sales of “Commit to the Kick”
Estimated Sales Tax We Will Owe
$95
We’ve contacted many of our suppliers and applied for sales tax exemptions to the extent possible; this reflects some items that either we’ll definitely have to pay sales tax on, or about which we’re still not sure.
Kickstarter Fees
$2,211
Collected New York State Sales Tax
$133
We are based in New York, and must pay sales tax for purchases made by backers who are also in New York.
Total Packaging Costs
$2,639
Total Estimated Cost for the Proposed Kickstarter Campaign
Book Production
$11,322
Merchandise Production
$5,554
Shipping and Handling Materials
$694
Other Expenses
$2,639
Shipping to Backers
$4,711
Total Estimated Cost for Everything
$24,920
All our proposed extras were unlocked in the Kickstarter campaign, and we raised a total of $25,808. This leaves us with a little under $1,000 in profit that we can re-invest in the business!
