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# Pricing

> How a gang sheet is priced: the builder measures the film used, your store sets the rate. The three ways to connect them — Print Options, a theme input, or Transfers by size — with worked examples.

Gang sheets are billed the way the market bills them: by the **length of
film** the order uses, on a roll of fixed width. The builder measures; your
store prices. Nothing on the Print.App side holds a rate.

While the customer works, the builder keeps sending the billable value to
the product page, so the price they see moves as they add pieces. When they
save, the same facts ride the order line.

## What the builder measures

* **Used length** — how much of the roll the packed sheet takes, from the
  film's top edge to the bottom of the lowest piece. Gaps and edge padding
  count; they are part of what the customer used.
* **Billable length** — the used length rounded **up** to the billing
  increment (inch, foot, centimeter) and never below the minimum billable
  length. With fixed sheet lengths the value is the number of sheets.
* **Sheets** — an order longer than the maximum sheet length overflows onto
  a second sheet; the billable total is the sum across sheets.

The summary's *Sheet space* figure shows the customer what they have used
against the maximum, and how much of the length they are already paying
for is still empty — pieces added there cost nothing extra.

## Path 1 — Print Options (recommended)

Set **Price target** to `po:dimensions` and add a
[Print Options](/docs/print-options/introduction) option set to the product with
a **Per length** price modifier on the film choice. The builder streams the
film width and used length into the widget, which prices live and verifies
the total on our servers at add-to-cart.

A typical film choice:

| Film       | Rate     | Tiers (by length)                            |
| ---------- | -------- | -------------------------------------------- |
| Matte DTF  | \$8 / ft | up to 5 ft $8, up to 20 ft $6.50, beyond \$5 |
| Glossy DTF | \$9 / ft | up to 5 ft $9, up to 20 ft $7.50, beyond \$6 |

with a $3 setup fee and a $10 minimum order.

**Example.** Four logos at 40/30/30/25 copies pack into 13" of 22" film.
Billed per inch that is 13" = 1.083 ft × $8 = $8.67, plus the $3 setup: **$11.67\*\*. Add a fifth logo that fits in the free length and the price
does not move.

<Tip>
  A ready-made blueprint, *DTF Gang Sheet (22" film)*, is in the Print
  Options templates. Start from it and change the rates.
</Tip>

<Note>
  The widget prices from the **saved** design's canvas once the customer
  has saved. Until then it shows the live pushes only if the option set
  has a dimensions field to receive them; without one the in-builder price
  stays at the minimum until save. The final price is always right.
</Note>

## Path 2 — a theme input (no Print Options)

Set **Price target** to the CSS selector of a quantity input on your
product page, for example `#quantity` or `input[name="quantity"]`. The
builder writes the billable value into it — inches, feet, centimeters or
sheet count, matching **Bill per** — and fires the input's change event, so
whatever your theme or pricing app does with quantity happens with the
length.

This suits a product priced per inch or per foot with a plain unit price.
It cannot do length tiers, setup fees or server-side verification; the
price is whatever the store computes from the quantity.

## Path 3 — Transfers by size

In this mode the customer never sees a sheet. Each design gets a print size
and a copy count, and the order is priced by **print area** with cumulative
copy breaks, which is how transfers are sold.

Set **Price target** to `po:quantity` (or a theme quantity selector) and
give the film choice a **Per area** modifier with **quantity** tiers:

| Copies       | Rate per sq in |
| ------------ | -------------- |
| up to 14     | \$0.055        |
| up to 49     | \$0.045        |
| up to 99     | \$0.040        |
| up to 249    | \$0.035        |
| 250 and more | \$0.030        |

The builder pushes the total copy count and hands the widget the total
print area on save.

**Example.** A 4" × 4" design × 10 copies plus a 2" × 6" design × 5 copies
is 15 copies over 220 sq in. At the 15-copy rate: 220 × $0.045 = $9.90,
plus a $2 setup: **$11.90\*\*. Fourteen copies of a 4" × 5" design would cost
$17.40, fifteen $15.50 — the copy break makes the larger order cheaper,
which is exactly the incentive shops want.

<Warning>
  The copy count is pushed into the widget's quantity field. Tell your
  customers in the field's help text that it is set by their designs, so
  they do not change it by hand.
</Warning>

## Showing the price in the builder

Set **Price display source** to `po:price` and the builder shows the Print
Options total in its summary, updating as the customer works. On a theme
without Print Options, point it at the element that shows the **line
total** — many themes render only the unit price, which would be misleading
in the builder. Leave it empty to hide the price.