I plan to buy cake boss software, until then I need a little help. I did a bridal shower, 24 cupcakes with gerber daisy toppers. I charged $1.50 for each cupcake and an additional $.50 each for filling. that would be $2.00 per cupcake. I will include pictures. Did I charge too much or too little? or am I right in between? I live in a rather small town and I've been told my prices are too high, have even lost customers due to this. so I looked at other bakeries in surrounding areas and lowered my prices close to theirs. 

You made those daisies by hand out of fondant/gumpaste??  If that's the case, there is absolutely no way you are charging too much.

Granted, I live in Boston, but those would go for $3.50 each at the very least if all of that work was hand-made.  You would never find a regular cupcake with no filling and simple frosting at less than $2.00 from professional folks out here, so PLEASE don't charge less than $2 for those beauties!!

ASo for this order you were at $24 a dozen. I don't know what to tell you about the price. You need to know what cost went into them and what profit you need to get out of them for this to work for you as a business. That said, 50cents per cupcake for filling does sound like a lot. ::shrug:: I streamlined my prices to make it more simple and filled or not mine are the same price. You would think everyone would want a filling then, but nope. People want what they want. :) So my advice is to go back over your cost. Read through some old threads on what to do with that # that you get and go from there. And remember, not everyone is going to be ok with $24 a dozen (or $20...) thats why they get Walmart cupcakes instead. It's their loss. Yuck. Go find the people that know it's worth a few extra bucks for something that tastes amazing.

you're absolutely right, thank you so very much! you know, that client actually told me during pricing discussion that she could "go get a cake for $50 at the grocery store". that pissed me off to no end. I wanted to tell her to go get one from walmart then, but I didn't want to sound mean. Thing is, she can't get a custom cake or cupcakes from walmart with custom fondant daisy toppers in her EXACT wedding colors. nor will it be from scratch cake and filling! I'm too worried about pleasing everyone, but truth is I suppose I need to weed out the people who want cheap gross flash frozen cakes and bucket icing.

AI am not in business yet, it is usually family and friends that hire me. The business is something I'm working towards but I'm not quite there yet as I have so much to learn still.

Thank you.