Boutique business resources for educators and advisors
Grow Your Boutique builds free retail-math tools for independent boutique and apparel owners. Instructors, SBDC and SBA-affiliated advisors, chambers of commerce, market organizers and nonprofit entrepreneurship programs are welcome to use, link to, and embed them at no cost.
What you can use
- Boutique Break-Even Calculator
How many orders a month a boutique needs to cover its fixed costs, after margin, fees and shipping.
- Boutique Profit Margin Calculator
Profit, margin and markup on a single product after discounts, fees, shipping and packaging.
- Boutique Pop-Up Profit Calculator
What a pop-up, market or vendor event has to sell before it makes money.
- Boutique Inventory Turnover Calculator
How many times a boutique sells through its average inventory in a period, and how long stock sits.
- Boutique Traffic Needed Calculator
The orders and website sessions a revenue goal requires at a given average order value and conversion rate.
How programs use them
Retail math units and classroom exercises
Give students a live tool for margin, markup, turnover and break-even instead of a static worksheet. Each calculator shows the intermediate figures, so students can check their own hand calculations against it.
SBDC and small business advising sessions
Walk a client through break-even and traffic requirements on screen during a session, then send them the public calculator link so they can rerun the numbers with their real figures.
Market, fair and pop-up vendor programs
Market organizers can embed the pop-up profit calculator on a vendor information page so applicants can size booth fees against realistic sales before they commit.
Wholesale and supplier education hubs
Buyers who understand turnover and margin place better orders. Embed the inventory turnover calculator alongside line-sheet guidance.
Permissions in plain language
- Link to any calculator or article from a syllabus, handout or resource list — no permission needed.
- Embed the calculators using the provided iframe code, keeping the attribution link visible.
- Quote the formulas on the methodology page with attribution to Grow Your Boutique.
- Don't re-host the tools, remove attribution, or place the embeds behind a paywall.
- Results are planning estimates, not accounting output or financial advice.
Also useful for teaching
Beyond the embeddable set, the full boutique calculator library covers startup costs, open-to-buy, landed cost, sell-through and markdown decisions. The methodology page documents the math behind the embeddable tools.