How much do you have to sell to break even?
Enter your monthly fixed costs, what you charge per sale, and what each sale costs you to deliver. You'll see exactly how many sales — and how much revenue — it takes to stop losing money, plus what's left over from each sale to cover the bills. Add how much you sell now and you'll see whether you're above break-even and what your profit is. No signup, no email, and the math is shown below.
You break even at
0
- Contribution margin per sale
- $0
- Contribution margin
- 0%
- Your current monthly profit
- $0
- Margin of safety
- 0%
What to look at first
An estimate from your own numbers. Break-even is plain arithmetic — fixed costs divided by what's left from each sale after its variable cost — not an invented figure. The point isn't the exact number; it's knowing the floor you have to clear, and a website that brings in and converts more customers moves you above it faster.
How the math works
No black box — it's plain arithmetic on the numbers you enter:
- Contribution margin per sale = price − cost per sale — what's left from each sale to put toward your fixed costs.
- Break-even point (sales) = monthly fixed costs ÷ contribution margin per sale — the number of sales that exactly covers your fixed costs.
- Break-even revenue = break-even sales × price.
- Margin of safety = (current sales − break-even sales) ÷ current sales — how far above break-even you are before you start losing money.
If your cost per sale is higher than your price, the contribution margin is negative and you can never break even at that price — every sale digs the hole deeper, so the fix is the price or the cost, not the volume. Want to clear your break-even sooner by winning more of the customers you already pay to reach? That's exactly what we do on a free consult — no pitch.