Know what every cup really costs.
Cupmargin turns your rent, beans, milk and wages into the numbers that decide your month: the price of a cup, the customers you need each day, and what's left when the bills are paid.
- No card needed
- Two-step login
- Export to Excel any time
- Coffee beans
- 0,40 €
- Milk
- 0,16 €
- To-go cups
- 0,11 €
- Lids
- 0,05 €
- Cost
- 0,71 €
- Price incl. VAT
- 3,80 €
- 6cost categories, from rent to pastries
- 1 cuppriced from its real recipe
- 12months, quarters or years compared
- 70+currencies, picked from where you are
Great coffee. Thin margins.
Rent goes up. Oat milk goes up. A part-timer picks up extra shifts. Most café owners find out what it all added up to when the month is already over, in a spreadsheet nobody enjoys opening.
Cupmargin shows you while there's still time to act: what a cup costs you today, whether the price on the board still covers it, and how many customers a day keep the doors open. Plain words, real numbers, no accounting degree needed.
Everything a café owner checks, nothing they don't.
Cupmargin is built around the questions you actually ask: what does this month cost, what should a cup sell for, and are we making money?
Every cost, one month at a time
Rent, utilities, supplies, food you buy in, staff and the rest, in six simple tabs. Each new month starts as a copy of the last, so you only change what changed.
The true cost of a cup
Build a cup from your own supplies (beans, milk, cup and lid) and see its cost, your margin and the price with VAT.
Staff, made simple
Full-time and part-time rows with hours, hourly pay and contributions. Head count and hours add themselves up.
Break-even and profit
Customers needed per day, based on what a customer really spends. Type in the month's takings to see the profit or loss.
Months, quarters, years
Compare any period with the one before, see your biggest cost, and spot the month things changed.
Excel in one click
A real workbook for your accountant: summary, expenses, staff and the full history, with money formatted properly.
Your country, your currency
Cupmargin sees where you are and picks your currency: kroner in Copenhagen, euros in Lisbon, pounds in Bristol. Change it any time.
Ten minutes a month.
- 01
Enter this month's costs
Type in rent, bills, supplies and staff. Start from our sample café and replace its figures with yours.
- 02
Build your cup
Pick what goes into one coffee from your supplies, set your margin and VAT, and get a price that covers it.
- 03
Watch the numbers
See the customers you need each day and, once you add the takings, the month's profit. Next month starts as a copy.
Your month on one calm screen.
The total, where the money goes, and the one number to watch each day. This is the sample café every new account starts with; replace its figures with yours.
- Rent & premises13%
- Utilities3%
- Supplies8%
- Consumables3%
- Staff68%
- Other3%
Your numbers stay yours.
A café's books are personal. Cupmargin guards them with a strong login, and never sells or shares them.
Two-step login
Add a code from Google or Microsoft Authenticator, 1Password or Authy, with recovery codes for a lost phone.
Google or email
Sign in with Google, or with an email and password. Passwords are hashed with bcrypt and never stored as typed.
Private by default
Your figures belong to your account alone, travel over HTTPS, and are encrypted at rest in the database.
Leave any time
Export everything to Excel, and delete your account with all its figures in one step.
A small company for small cafés.
Cupmargin is a young company building calm, honest software for independent coffee shops. We start with the numbers, because they decide whether a good café gets to stay open, and we're building the rest with the owners who use it.
What we believe
- Owners should understand their numbers without hiring someone to explain them.
- Software for a small business should be quick to learn and quiet to use.
- Your data is yours: easy to export, easy to delete, never sold.
Questions, answered.
Is Cupmargin free?
Yes, while Cupmargin is in beta. We'll give you plenty of notice before any paid plan, and your figures stay yours to export either way.
Do I need to be good with spreadsheets?
No. If you know what you pay in rent and what a bag of beans costs, you have everything Cupmargin needs. It does the sums.
Which currencies does it support?
More than seventy. Cupmargin picks yours from where you are, and you can change it whenever you like.
Can I use it on my phone?
Yes. Cupmargin works in any modern browser on a phone, tablet or computer, and your figures follow you between them.
How do I get my data out?
Export any month to an Excel workbook in one click. It includes the full history of every month you've entered.
Can I delete my account?
Any time, from Account & security. It deletes your account and every figure in it.
Open the books on your café.
Set up your first month over a coffee. Free while we're in beta.
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