Payback calculator
The real question isn’t the price. It’s whether it pays for itself.
A machine on a 12-month plan is an operating cost, not a purchase. So the number that matters is how many pieces a day you need to sell to cover it — and that’s usually smaller than people expect.
The starting figures come from nine years of actually doing this work in this market — roughly ₱200 to ₱1,000 profit a piece on retail personalisation, and ₱50 to ₱200 on bulk and corporate orders. Change them to match what you charge.
Machine
What kind of work?
Selling personalisation direct to the customer — typically ₱200 to ₱1,000 profit a piece, depending on size and complexity.
Start from a typical job
Put your own numbers in — the answer only means something if the inputs are yours.
At those numbers
You’d need to sell
1.1pieces a day to cover the payment
- 108 pieces a month
- × ₱500
- Profit / month
- ₱54,125
- Less LP4 payment
- − ₱11,760
Left over each month
₱42,365
Machine paid off in 3 months of profit — while the payment is still spread across 12.
Profit on the engraving only. It ignores your own time, electricity, rent, and consumables like lenses and goggles. Real payback runs longer than this — we’d rather you find that out here than in month three.
What this doesn’t account for
Your time
Engraving takes minutes; designing, packing and answering messages takes longer. The machine speeds up one part of the job.
Slow weeks
Order flow isn't even. December is not February. Model a realistic average, not your best week.
Running costs
Electricity, replacement goggles, lens cleaning, the occasional ruined blank. Small individually, real over a year.
Where the volume comes from
Retail pieces earn more each but arrive one at a time. Bulk pays less per piece and lands in batches. Most shops end up doing both.
Learning time
The first few weeks are slower while you dial in settings for your materials. That's what the training is for.
We’d rather show you a conservative number than an impressive one. If the machine only works on paper, you’ll find out in month three and we’ll have earned a bad review.
Bring your numbers to a demo and we’ll check them.
Nine years of running these machines commercially means we have a decent sense of what a piece actually takes. Bring a product and we’ll time it properly.