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Free Business Pricing Starter Pack
Download a printable starter pack with VAT formulas, pricing reminders, worked examples, and quick-reference checks for repeat small-business decisions.
What you get
A printable business reference you can actually use
This starter pack is for the checks that come up repeatedly in small businesses: understanding VAT, sense-checking a price, thinking more clearly about hourly rates, and interpreting percentage change without second-guessing the maths.
It is designed to support the live tools rather than compete with them. The calculators help with speed. The PDF helps with reminders, planning, worked examples, and keeping the logic close by when you need it.
Why this is worth keeping
Built for repeat checks, not one-time reading
The best free downloads earn their place by helping with real repeat decisions. This one is built to be printed, saved, or kept nearby for pricing, VAT, rate, and business maths checks that come up again and again.
That makes it more useful for rough planning, quote reviews, note-taking, and those moments when you want a quick reminder before sending a number to a client or customer.
What is inside
The 5 core sections in the pack
Each section is built around a real small-business use case. The aim is not to pad out a download. The aim is to make the pack something worth printing and referring back to.
VAT quick formulas
A practical reminder sheet for moving between net, VAT, and gross figures without losing track of what each number actually means.
Margin vs markup cheat sheet
A clearer plain-English comparison of the two percentages, including when each one is useful and why mixing them up weakens pricing decisions.
Hourly-rate planning sheet
A simple framework for thinking about income goals, overheads, non-billable time, and what a more realistic working rate may need to cover.
Percentage change examples
Worked increase and decrease examples so you can sense-check price, cost, revenue, or performance movement more confidently.
Simple quote and pricing checks
A short set of prompts to help you pause before sending a number out, especially when checking VAT treatment, rate logic, or price strength.
What this helps you do
Faster checks with less second-guessing
Check a quote before it goes out
Use the pack to pause on VAT treatment, price logic, and whether the number still looks commercially sensible.
Keep key formulas in one place
Useful when you do not want to keep reopening pages just to remind yourself how a common check works.
Make repeat decisions less messy
The real value is not in reading it once. The value is in using it during the small repeat checks that come up again and again.
Best for
Who should get the most value from it
Freelancers
Useful when pricing services, reviewing rates, checking quotes, or keeping the most common business maths close to hand.
Sole traders
Helpful for fast everyday VAT and pricing checks when decisions are made quickly and there is no time to rebuild the logic from scratch.
Small service businesses
A good printable reference for pricing conversations, quote reviews, margin thinking, and basic commercial sense-checking.
How to use it
Best used alongside the live tools
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Use the PDF when you want a printable reminder, worksheet, or quick-reference prompt rather than a one-off calculator answer.
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Use the live tools when you want the arithmetic done quickly and more precisely.
- 3
Use both together when you are checking a quote, reviewing a price, or planning a rate change properly.
Next step
Download it, then use the live tools when you need speed
The PDF gives you the reminders and planning prompts. The live tools give you faster answers. Together, they make the site more useful than either one on its own.