Stop making candles. Start building your candle company.
You did not start this to spend three days a week melting wax. Hand production over, keep the fragrance you already sell, and get the week back.
You keep the scent. That part is not negotiable and we know it.
Your customers buy you for how it smells. Nobody is asking you to swap that for something off a list.
Send us your oil. We need a sample and the supplier's safety data sheet, we burn test it in the vessel first, and then we pour it. Your fragrance stays yours: we will not pour it for another customer, and that sits in the terms rather than being a reassuring sentence on a website.
That route starts at 250 candles, which covers the testing.
What would this actually make you?
At your volume the question is not margin per candle, it is what the pouring is costing you in time you could spend selling. Put your real numbers in.
Gross Before your costs
This is the number most manufacturers stop at.
Net After them
Adjust your own costs. These are per candle, so split anything you pay per order.
Dates built from our own production times, not from optimism
Everything runs from the day you approve your artwork, not the day you pay. A run of 500 with your own fragrance is about 27 working days, because the oil has to be tested before it goes anywhere near production.
Fourteen of those days are the cure and we will not shorten them. A candle released early does not throw scent properly, and that becomes your problem with your customers rather than ours.
We will tell you what we can actually take before you commit. If a run is bigger than the capacity we have free, we say so and split it across cycles rather than quietly missing the date.
The second order is a quantity and a date
Your vessel, wax, fragrance, load, wick and label all stay on file as a written specification. A repeat run is not a fresh brief, it is a number and a delivery week.
Every run is checked against that same specification before it is packed, so the candle you order in March is the candle you get in October. One vessel, one wax, one load, one wick size, every fragrance burn tested in that exact combination.
What you are really worried about
Above a thousand a month, talk to a person
The configurator is good for pricing a run. It is the wrong tool for volume pricing, payment terms, a standing schedule or stock holding. Tell us your volume and we will come to you.