Business and period
Used on screen and on the printed sheet only.
Every figure below must cover the same stretch of time. A month of sales against a year of rent produces a break-even point that means nothing.
What one unit is worth
The price you get, and what that same sale costs you.
What you actually get for one unit, averaged across what you sell.
What that one costs to buy, make and deliver. Nothing that would still be paid if you sold none.
Fixed costs, one month
What the business pays whether it sells anything or not.
Including your own, if you take one.
Power, water, internet, airtime.
Running the business, not delivering to customers.
Subscriptions, licences, accounting, professional fees.
Repayments and interest the business must find each period.
Insurance, security, repairs, anything else that does not move with sales.
Loan and finance costs are inside this deliberately. Break even is the point at which the business covers everything it must actually pay, and a repayment is one of those. The Business Margin Calculator strikes operating profit before financing, so the two tools will place break even differently for a business carrying debt.
What you are selling now
Optional. It is what lets the tool say how far you are from the line.
Leave it blank and the break-even point still stands. What needs it is everything that compares the business to that point: the safety margin, and what it would take to close the gap.
Your target
Optional. The profit you want the business to make in a month.
Break even is the point where the business stops losing money, not the point where it is worth running. Add what you want to earn and the tool answers that question too.
Break-even point
Enter your price and your costs
The price of one of the things you sell, and what it costs you, are where this starts.
What you will get
Fill in the price, the costs and what you are selling, and the answer appears here as you type.
- The sales you need each month to cover every cost, in money and in units
- What one sale actually leaves once the goods and the charges are paid
- How far above or below that point the business is today
- Three separate ways to close the gap: sell more, charge more, or spend less
- The sales a profit target would need, not just the ones that cover the costs
Recalculating break even every month?
This tool works from the figures you type in. Your business already has them.
OraOS Business connects sales, purchases, stock, expenses and cash, so what the business is selling, what each sale costs and what the month costs to run come out of the records themselves rather than being reassembled by hand.
- Selling price and direct cost from the transactions themselves
- Fixed costs from the expenses as they are recorded
- Break even moving as the month moves, not once a month
- Cash and financing readiness beside the trading position
A separate product, with its own pricing and its own pilot. This calculator stays free either way.
Ora Account
Coming soonSave break-even scenarios, compare results and reopen your work across Ora Tools when the Ora Account launches. It will be free.
Nothing on this page asks you to sign in, and nothing you enter leaves your browser today.
What the account will doOra Tools Pro
Coming soonSaved scenarios, several products at once with their own prices and costs, break even tracked period by period, and export to PDF and spreadsheet are intended for Pro.
None of it exists yet, and no price has been set. The calculation on this page is complete and free, and will stay that way.
Free and Pro, comparedYour calculation runs in your browser. The figures you enter, including salaries, rent and loan repayments, are never sent to Ora, and are kept only in this browser so that a refresh does not lose them. Clearing the form removes them. Like any website, Ora Tools counts anonymous page views, which carry nothing you typed.