StartupBags napkin math

One real tote, every spot sold to a sponsor, their giveaway bags bundled into the price. Move the sliders and watch who gets paid. Print pricing assumes a San Francisco digital-print shop, not overseas.

One drop a month, your net

Yearly gross

Print shop, yearly

Bags in the wild

The bag
20
$249
100%
The bags themselves
5
0
$25
$22
Shipping
$0
$12
Who does the work
20%
$300
20

The human questions

Are bags free?

Who pays shipping?

Worth someone's time?

Where each dollar goes

Mini Tote · 41 spotsper bag design

Assumptions: Stripe 2.9% + 30¢ per charge. Print run rounds up to the vendor minimum of 50. At 20 spots on the mini tote each sponsor gets a 3 × 2.9 in front or back panel, or a side wrap. The factory line is revenue to the print shop, their margin is inside it. Figures are per bag design, run it monthly and multiply.