For brands, makers and small manufacturers
With your own product everything is connected: the retail pack sets the master carton, the carton sets the pallet pattern, the pattern sets the number of pallets and trips. JetPallet calculates that chain in one model. Change one value and pallet, vehicle and cost follow.
What you end up with
In a small company the same person often decides on product design, purchasing and shipping. The questions arrive together:
Working each of these out in a separate spreadsheet means starting over with every change.
Workflow
Enter the size and weight of the finished product – as a box or as an upright cylinder for tins, jars and pails. JetPallet has its own arrangements for round goods: at 100 mm diameter, the mixed arrangement fits 104 instead of 96 per layer on a Euro pallet.
Master carton calculator, divider inserts, tray or shrink pack: each tool works out outer dimensions and shows what they mean for the pallet. You enter the gross weight of the finished unit yourself – the app doesn’t guess material weights.
The scenario lab stores up to four planning states, for instance a 12-unit carton against a 16-unit one, or three pallet heights. The variant comparison shows patterns, quantities and cost next to each other.
Reverse planning chains product, carton, pallet and cargo space and shows, stage by stage, how many units fit and where a limit applies.
Packing instruction and packing report go out as PDFs with your logo to co-packer, warehouse or retailer.
In detail
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This tool varies the product’s length, width and height within limits you set, without shrinking its volume, and shows how the number of products per pallet changes. Before signing off new packaging you can see whether a change of shape makes any difference in logistics.
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When the carton doesn’t divide the pallet evenly, JetPallet calculates mixed patterns. A 350 × 250 mm carton gives 9 per layer in a grid and 10 in a two-block pattern. Every layer is checked geometrically on its own.
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Whether the bottom carton can carry the load is estimated with the McKee formula from edge crush, board thickness and carton perimeter, using a safety factor you set. If your carton supplier has a measured value, that takes precedence.
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Using your own prices for freight, pallet and carton, JetPallet works out packaging and freight cost per product. CO₂e scenarios show which factors and sources went in. It is not a certified carbon footprint, but a traceable figure for comparing variants.
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The report template holds company name, address, logo, order number and paper size (A4 or US Letter). Packing report, packing instruction and comparison PDF then share the same header.
PDF · 47 languages
Driver sheet
PDF · A6
Pallet label
PDF · A4
Packing report
Schematic view of the outputs, not original pages.
Questions
Yes. On the pallet, JetPallet calculates upright cylinders such as tins, pails and drums in grid, honeycomb and mixed arrangements with their own 2D and 3D views. Mixed-load planning adds bottles (with neck size), sacks, rolls lying on their side (as an enclosing box, never load-bearing) and upright trapezoidal prisms. True free-form shapes are not covered.
No. You enter the gross weight of the filled carton, tray or bundle. JetPallet doesn’t estimate material weights, so no unsupported figure finds its way into the pallet plan.
There is one version with every feature: free for 14 days, then USD 99 a year as a subscription. If the subscription ends, you can still open and view projects, and your own data such as libraries, cargo-space profiles, articles and CSV templates can still be exported; editing, calculating, exporting, printing and sharing need the subscription. The trial is available once per Apple Account.
Read on
Try JetPallet on macOS 15 or later for 14 days with your own dimensions. For several workstations, get in touch via the contact page.
Free for 14 days · then USD 99/year
