The Studio
What should you charge for this?
The Studio is the back office for independent jewellery makers. It works out what a piece should cost, shows you what you actually keep, and holds your pieces, materials, orders and numbers in one calm place. Seven days free.
Making an account is free and takes no card, and your first ten pieces are on us. When you want the whole suite it is seven days free, then £19.99 a month, billed in pounds sterling. Nothing is charged until day seven. Cancel any time.
You didn’t start makingjewellery to do admin.
Your business lives in about six places right now. There’s a notebook by the bench. A spreadsheet from January. Your bank app. Your DMs. A pile of receipts. And the rest of it is in your head.
Nothing is exactly wrong. It just never adds up to one clear picture. So the questions that matter get answered with a shrug.
And then there’s the pricing. That horrible pause before you say a number out loud, because you genuinely do not know if it’s right.
The real cost isn’t the admin. It’s the making it eats.
Sound familiar
- Your prices are a guess you’ve been carrying around for months
- Your stock lives across a notebook, a drawer and your memory
- Wholesale gets worked out after retail, so the margin has already gone
- You couldn’t say which piece makes you money and which one just keeps you busy
You’re not bad atthe business bit.
You’ve been doing the job of about five people with a notebook and no system. That’s not a you problem. That’s what happens when nobody hands a maker the back office they need.
So The Studio is the back office. One place where the numbers already know about each other.
There is a real number,and it isn’t a feeling.
You are not pricing your worth as a person. You are answering a plain business question: what does this skill cost to hire?
The Studio does that sum for you. Materials, your hour at a rate you set, a real buffer built from your actual running costs, then wholesale and retail worked out together so one never eats the other.
And your number always wins. The calculator gives you a suggestion and shows you the maths behind it. If you want to price differently, you price differently, and everything keeps working around it.
You’ll probably look at the first number and think it’s too high. Nearly everyone does. It’s just the first time you’ve seen it written down properly.
What the calculator does
- A price that pays your hour, every time
- Wholesale and retail worked out together
- Your overheads split into what it costs to run and what it costs to make, then landed on the piece and the bench hour
- A buffer based on what you actually spend, not a percentage you picked
- Short pricing lessons sitting right beside the calculator, including four different ways to find your hourly rate
Which piecesactually pay you.
Every piece keeps its own money story. How many you’ve sold, what came in, where it sold, and what you kept once the piece had cost you what it costs.
So the one that sells constantly and leaves you almost nothing stops hiding behind the one that sells twice a year and pays for the month. That’s usually the moment the whole thing clicks.
What each piece tells you
- Sold count, revenue and profit kept, piece by piece
- Where each one sold: market, drop, DM or logged by hand
- What your shelf is worth at cost, right now
- Month by month, what came in and what went out
- A one tap CSV for your accountant, so your numbers can always leave with you
And it holds theunglamorous parts too.
Pricing is the reason most people come. The rest is why they stay.
Pieces
Every piece you make, with its photos, stock and story in one calm place.
Pricing
The maths that pays your hour: materials, time, a real buffer, wholesale and retail.
Materials
A cupboard that knows what things cost and what you have left, so when the price of silver moves you can see straight away which pieces stopped paying.
Orders
What’s to make, what’s to ship, what’s done, whatever channel it came from.
Money
What came in, what went out, what you kept.
Drops
Sell by keyword with your own shareable link. No marketplace taking a cut.
Toolkit
Auto-DMs, a post scheduler and your numbers, all on your own Instagram account.
You’ll be set up beforeyour tea goes cold.
No card, no call, no sales chat. Nothing to install and nothing to migrate. You can put one real piece in and see the whole thing work.
Make an account
Name, email, password.
Add a piece
The one you make most, or the one you’ve always half suspected is underpriced.
Put in your materials, your minutes and your hourly rate
The calculator does the rest and puts wholesale and retail side by side.
Start the trial when you want the whole suite
Seven days, everything open, nothing held back.
Making an account is free and takes no card, and your first ten pieces are on us. When you want the whole suite it is seven days free, then £19.99 a month, billed in pounds sterling. Nothing is charged until day seven. Cancel any time.
Made for the persondoing all of it.
You make the work, take the photos, answer the DMs, pack the orders and do the books at eleven at night.
Wherever you are, it works in your setup rather than a British one you have to translate. Your own currency, properly formatted. And ring sizes in whichever system is yours: UK and Ireland letters, US and Canada numbers, European circumference in millimetres, Japanese numbers, or plain inner diameter.
It isn’t a shop platform, and it isn’t trying to be. The Studio doesn’t replace your website or your Instagram. It runs the business behind them.
It’s probably not for you if you don’t sell your work yet, or if you already have a bookkeeper and someone running production. That’s completely fine.
Built by someone whopriced it wrong for years.
The Studio was built by Megan Collins. She started in a bedroom in London so small she had to sit on her bed to reach the desk, waitressing in Hatton Garden for £6.31 an hour and making jewellery in every spare minute.
That work went on to be stocked in Anthropologie, the Museum of London and Yorkshire Sculpture Park, and to well over six figures in sales. None of it came from being special. It came from doing the right work in the right order, and holding on to the numbers while she did it.
For the first few years she was charging way, way, way too low, because she was guessing. Every single time. Every tool in here started as something she needed at her own bench and couldn’t find anywhere.
£19.99 a month.Seven days free first.
One price, everything in it. No tiers to work out and no add-ons for the useful bits.
Being straight about what isn’t in it matters more than making the list look longer. The subscription buys the tools. The courses are separate one-off purchases, and the Visibility Lounge, the group calls, 1:1 time and the Studio Assistant are all on their own separate plans. You never need any of them to use The Studio.
Making an account is free and takes no card, and your first ten pieces are on us. When you want the whole suite it is seven days free, then £19.99 a month, billed in pounds sterling. Nothing is charged until day seven. Cancel any time.
What is in it
- Unlimited pieces, with photos, variants and collections
- The pricing calculator, your hourly rate and your overheads
- The materials cupboard with costs and stock levels
- Orders and your money ledger
- Keyword drops with your own public page
- The Instagram Toolkit, running on your own account
- Your own currency and five ring size systems
Not included: any course, the Visibility Lounge, group calls, 1:1 time or the Studio Assistant
Exactly what happens, so there are no surprises.
Auto-renewing trials are usually written to be skimmed past. Here’s ours in full.
- Making an account is free and takes no card. Your first ten pieces are on us, and you can edit them as much as you like.
- To start the seven day free trial you add a card, so it carries on without a gap if you keep it.
- The trial is the whole product. Nothing is held back or watered down.
- Nothing is charged until day seven. On day seven it becomes £19.99 a month, billed in pounds sterling.
- Cancel any time from your account, in a couple of clicks. Cancel before day seven and you are not charged at all. No minimum term, no annual lock in.
- If you stop later, nothing is deleted. Your pieces, your prices and your materials stay there to read, and everything comes straight back if you return.
Questions
The things peopleactually ask.
Straight answers, including the ones about money. No pressure either way.
Not to sign up. Making an account is a name, an email and a password, and you can build your first ten pieces without giving us anything else. A card is only needed when you start the seven day trial, because the trial turns into the subscription at the end of it.
Add one piece andlook at the number.
Put in what it costs you and how long it really takes. That’s it, that’s the whole first step.
You might not love the number at first. But you’ll know it’s real, and everything else can be built on top of it.
No call, no pressure, ever.
Making an account is free and takes no card, and your first ten pieces are on us. When you want the whole suite it is seven days free, then £19.99 a month, billed in pounds sterling. Nothing is charged until day seven. Cancel any time.
Megan x