OPERATOR PLANNING
Operating cost scenario calculator.
Test your own price, paid plays or sales, revenue share and operating costs. See what remains each month and how activity changes the result before deciding what to quote.
- 01 Enter your project details
- 02 Review the calculation
- 03 Take the result into a quote
YOUR WORKING ESTIMATE
Your planning result
Enter your own figures to see a result.
- Monthly operating balance
- Revenue less your entered variable and fixed costs.
- Break-even activity
- The paid activity needed under your assumptions.
- A reusable scenario
- Keep the inputs, then test a different case.
YOUR INPUTS · TRANSPARENT MATH
Calculate a scenario, then challenge its assumptions.
Use one currency throughout. The tool does not supply machine prices, forecast customer demand or verify the costs you enter. Its result is an operating scenario based on those inputs.
- Monthly revenue
- Price per paid play or sale × paid plays or sales per day × operating days per month.
- Contribution per paid unit
- Price × (1 − revenue-share percentage / 100) − variable cost per paid play or sale. Include payment fees, prizes or consumables in your variable-cost input as appropriate.
- Monthly operating balance
- Monthly paid activity × contribution per paid unit − entered fixed monthly cost. Positive is a surplus under the scenario; negative is a shortfall.
- Break-even activity
- When contribution per unit is positive, the monthly units needed to cover entered fixed costs are rounded up to a whole unit, then divided by entered operating days. When contribution is zero or negative, adding volume does not create a positive contribution.
- Simple capital recovery
- Upfront investment ÷ positive monthly operating balance. This assumes that the same scenario repeats and ignores timing and the time value of money. No positive balance means no finite recovery estimate.
BUILD A COMPLETE COST VIEW
Include the costs your operation actually pays.
Fixed monthly cost should include your applicable rent, labor, electricity, service provision, insurance and other recurring costs. Enter the total initial investment you want to test, including applicable equipment, packing, shipping, setup and other initial costs.
- What is not added automatically
- Taxes, financing, depreciation, downtime, repairs, refunds, changing demand and working-capital needs are not estimated by this tool. Include relevant cash costs in your inputs and review the result with your own records.
- Use more than one scenario
- Change paid activity, prize or consumable cost and venue share. A positive example is not evidence that a machine will achieve those figures.