Using a Point-Of-Sale system will improve your profits and create a more professional approach to business. Making LifeSaver your choice for this system insures that you will have the most advanced system in the industry.
Markup is the second-most important factor in making money in custom framing—next to margin. It doesn’t matter where you start your pricing; what matters most is what you sell it for.
If you don’t mark up your materials enough, you won’t stay in business. Markup is the second-most important factor in making money. Here’s a good way to analyze markup when pricing moulding, matboard and glazing.
Correct pricing is perhaps THE most important part of being profitable. Unfortunately, it’s a really hard thing to do in custom framing. For the past 10 years I have broken down the cost and selling prices of custom framed projects. Three years ago I began using that experience to help other framers become more profitable.