Break-Even Export Volume Calculator

The Break-Even Export Volume Calculator tells you exactly how many units you must sell to stop losing money and start profiting on an export product or order. Export decisions — whether to take an order, accept a price, or enter a market — depend on understanding your costs and how quickly you can recover them.

Enter your fixed export costs, your variable cost per unit and your selling price per unit, and the calculator returns the break-even volume, break-even revenue, contribution per unit and the margin of safety at your target volume. Use it to evaluate orders, set prices and plan market entry with confidence.

• Break-even volume & revenue: The units and revenue you must reach to cover all costs.
• Contribution per unit: See how much each unit contributes to fixed-cost recovery.
• Fixed & variable split: Clear separation of the two cost types.
• Margin of safety: How far sales can fall before you lose money, at your target volume.
• Target profit option: Optionally find the volume needed to hit a specific profit target.
• Report-only export: Print or save a PDF containing only the final break-even report.
• Free and private: All processing stays in your browser.

1. Enter your total fixed export costs — documentation, certification, marketing, minimum freight, etc.
2. Enter the variable cost per unit — materials, per-unit labour, packaging and freight.
3. Enter the selling price per unit (on your agreed Incoterm basis).
4. Optionally set a profit target to find the volume needed for that profit.
5. Enter your expected volume to see the margin of safety.
6. Export the report — the print/PDF output contains only the final break-even report.

Example 1 – Order viability: A manufacturer has 10,000 fixed export costs, an 8.00 variable cost per unit and a 12.00 FOB price. The contribution is 4.00, so break-even is 2,500 units. If the buyer only wants 2,000 units, the order is unprofitable — the exporter renegotiates or reduces fixed costs.

Example 2 – Profit target: The same exporter wants 5,000 profit. The tool finds the volume needed is (10,000 + 5,000) ÷ 4.00 = 3,750 units, and shows the margin of safety if they expect to sell 5,000.

• Make better order decisions: Accept or decline orders based on real profitability.
• Set prices to recover costs: Know the price and volume relationship clearly.
• Plan market entry: Size the market and volume you actually need.
• Clean output: Export only the final break-even report for your decision file.
• 100% free and private: No sign-up, no upload, runs locally.