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Break-even is the single most useful number a new business has, and the one founders are least likely to know. It answers a precise question: how many units must sell each month before the fixed costs are covered and the business stops losing money? The maths is simple — fixed monthly costs divided by the contribution each sale leaves behind — but the discipline is not. Below that number you are spending runway; above it, every sale builds a cushion. This calculator returns the unit count, the revenue it represents, and the steeper target that a healthy business actually plans around.
Find the exact number of units you must sell each month before the business stops losing money — plus what you need to sell to hit a real profit target.
Then the model needs fixing before the launch does: raise the price, cut the variable cost, or shrink fixed costs — in roughly that order of difficulty. Ignoring an impossible break-even is how businesses run out of cash with full order books.
No — it is the floor. A business that merely breaks even is one bad month from trouble. Add a target monthly profit and plan around the sales number that produces it.
Mislabelling is how break-even lies to you. Rent and salaries are fixed; materials, shipping and payment fees move with sales. Mixing them up makes the number look better than it is.
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