What should this actually cost?
Price it from the metal up — gold weight, making charge, tax — then see how much room you have to negotiate against the seller's ask.
Rate refills automatically when you switch currency.
Switching currency always discards typed values and the ask price. The rate is refilled from today's fetched data: the new currency's own cached rate if you fetched it, otherwise an FX-derived estimate from your last fetch. If nothing was fetched today, the field stays empty until you tap Fetch. AED, USD, EUR and SAR come straight from GoldAPI; NOK is derived from the USD rate.
Live rate (optional)
Fetches today's gold rates from GoldAPI, cached once per day.
Pulls today's gold rates directly from GoldAPI.io, covering 16K, 18K, 21K, 22K and 24K. For currencies it doesn't support natively, it fetches the USD rate and converts using the same live FX rate as the currency switcher above. A successful fetch is cached until the next calendar day, so reopening the app won't call the API again — only clicking Fetch again does.
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30-DAY SPOT TREND · 24K
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Rate & item
+retail
Enter today's rate from your local jeweller or a gold price site in your currency. Rates move through the day — recheck before you commit.
Adds an estimated {pct}% retail premium to the spot price.
Gold APIs return the raw spot price. Real shops sell a few percent above spot (retail premium). Turn this on to add an estimated {pct}% retail markup to the fetched rate, closer to what a jeweller actually quotes.
Making charge
Making charges vary — flat per gram or % of gold value, depending on the piece.
Making charges vary by market and design — simple machine-made pieces run lower per gram, while handmade or intricate designs are often priced as a percentage of gold value instead. Check what's typical where you're buying.
Enter the sales tax / VAT rate that applies to jewelry purchases in your location.
Fair price breakdown
Subtotal
Fair price
Seller's ask price
Jewelry Log
Log each piece you're comparing. Fair price recalculates from your current settings above (rate scaled per row's karat, plus making, tax, and retail markup if on). Saved with your synced settings.
| Shop | Description | Wt (g) | Karat | Gold/g | Ask | Shop making | Fair price | Verdict | Status | Date | Notes |
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Fetch today's gold rate above before logging a piece — every entry is priced against a real fetched rate.