Price Increase Planner

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Model the revenue impact of a price increase — including the customers who'll walk.

What is the Price Increase Planner?

Owners avoid raising prices because they imagine losing every customer. The maths usually says you can afford to lose more than you'd think. The Price Increase Planner shows you exactly: given an increase and an expected churn rate, does your gross profit go up, stay flat, or fall?

Most price increases in SaaS, services, and trade businesses are net positive — even with the lost customers — because the surviving customers contribute more. This calculator lets you sanity-check that before you send the letter.

When to use it

  • When your costs have crept up but your prices haven't moved in over a year.
  • Before sending a price-update email to existing clients.
  • Annually as a planning exercise — what would a 5% increase do?
  • When a competitor raises and you're wondering whether to follow.

The formula

New revenue = current revenue × (1 + price increase) × (1 − churn). New gross profit = new revenue − cost of sales × (1 − churn). The break-even churn is the level at which gross profit stays exactly equal to today's — anything above that and you've lost ground, anything below and you're up.

Worked example

Current monthly revenue
€20,000
Current gross margin
60%
Price increase
8%
Expected customer churn from the rise
5%
Result

New gross profit: +6.6% vs today. You could lose up to 13% of customers and still break even.

How to use it

  1. 1

    Enter your current monthly revenue and gross margin

  2. 2

    Enter the price increase percentage you're considering

  3. 3

    Enter your honest expectation for customer churn caused by the rise

  4. 4

    Read whether the move is net positive AND the break-even churn rate (the level at which you'd be no better off)

  5. 5

    Decide if the worst-case is acceptable

Common questions

How much will my customers actually churn from a price rise?+

For SaaS and services with annual contracts, real churn from a single-digit price rise is usually under 5%. For retail and price-sensitive markets it can be higher. The honest answer is: model the break-even churn first, then ask 'is my real churn likely to be below that?'

When should I tell my customers?+

30–90 days of notice is the standard for B2B and services. A small one-sentence reason ('our costs have risen 10% over the last 18 months') is enough. Long apologetic emails make customers more anxious, not less.

Should I grandfather existing customers at the old price?+

Sometimes. It's good for retention but builds a slow-burn problem: your most loyal customers pay the least, and over years the rate gap becomes huge. A common compromise: grandfather for 6–12 months, then move everyone to the new price.

Is the Price Increase Planner free?+

It's included in Founding Lifetime Access (€99 one-time). Try the free tier first if you haven't.

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