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What your tech packs cost by hand, and what you get back
Enter how many tech packs your team finishes and what an hour of design time costs. The calculator compares that with Texhub, at up to $15 per tech pack, with a person still checking every pack.
Your numbers
Start from a team like yours
Finished packs your team sends to factories in a typical month.
Count the whole job: drawing the flats, measuring and grading the size chart, the materials list and trims, colourways and labels, construction notes, and the rounds of factory questions and fixes.
Your internal cost, a freelance rate, or a team rate with its overheads.
About 15 minutes for the Studio to draw the garment from your photos and answers, and about 15 to check the pack and export it.
Your estimate
Each month
55 hours back$2,325 back
86% less than doing it by hand
- By hand
- $2,700 a month60 hours of design time
- With Texhub
- $375 a monthYour time, $225, and Texhub at up to $15 per tech pack, $150 at most
- Over a year
- $27,900 back
- One tech pack in Texhub
- $37.50, your time included
An estimate from your numbers, not a quote.
A worked example
A small brand, by the numbers
- 10 tech packs a month, each taking 6 hours by hand at $45 an hour: $2,700 a month.
- In Texhub, each takes 30 minutes, the drawing included: 5 hours, or $225. Texhub costs up to $15 per tech pack, $150 at most. Together, $375 a month.
- The difference: 55 hours and $2,325 back each month, or $27,900 over a year.
Method
How the estimate works
- By hand
- Tech packs a month, times the hours each one takes, times what an hour costs.
- In Texhub
- The minutes each pack takes, the drawing included, at the same hourly cost, plus the Texhub price for every pack. The calculator counts the price at its ceiling, up to $15 per tech pack, so the Texhub cost it shows is the most it would be.
- What you get back
- The cost by hand minus the cost in Texhub, and the hours by hand minus the hours in Texhub. A year is twelve months of it. Money is rounded to whole dollars before the difference is taken, so the figures add up.
- What it leaves out
- Sampling and fit sessions, which happen either way, taxes, and the time it takes to learn a new tool.
Questions about the estimate
Is this a quote?
No. It is a planning estimate from the numbers you enter. What your team pays is agreed with you, at up to $15 per tech pack.
Talk to usWhat should I count as time by hand?
Everything one finished pack takes, from the first sketch to the version the factory sews from: drawing the flats, measuring and grading the size chart, the materials list and trims, colourways and labels, construction notes, and the rounds of factory questions and fixes. Leave out sampling and fit sessions, which happen either way.
What does “up to $15 per tech pack” mean?
It is the most Texhub charges for one tech pack. The calculator counts the full amount, so the Texhub cost it shows is the highest it would be. Tell us what you make and we will tell you what it comes to.
Contact usWhy does Texhub still take a person’s time?
The Studio draws the flats and fills in the pack, but someone who knows the garment should check every pack before it goes to a factory. The calculator counts that time at your hourly cost, so the comparison is fair.
Is anything I type saved?
No. The calculator runs in your browser. What you enter is not sent to Texhub and is not stored.
Get the hours back on your next tech pack
Start from a photo or a sketch. The Studio draws the flats and builds the pack around them.