What does this actually save you?
A correctly built app pays for itself out of the time it gives back. Plug in real numbers below - your own hourly rate and a honest guess at daily time saved - and see it for yourself.
Drawing no. SA-ROIYour numbers
01 - Your numbers
Assumes a 5-day working week, 46 working weeks a year (52 weeks less 4 weeks' annual leave and an average of ~11 Australian public holidays).
Drawing no. SA-ROIResult
8.3 days
to pay for itself, based on the numbers above
02 - What that's worth
Value per day
$100
Value per month
$2,167
Value per year
$26,000
Year 1 net benefit
$24,520
Cumulative cost
Cumulative value of time saved
03 - Looking further ahead
The $1,000 setup only happens once. Every year after that, it's just hosting against the same time saved, year after year.
| Year | Cost that year | Value that year | Cumulative net benefit |
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04 - What the numbers don't show
The dollar figures above are the easy part to prove. The rest is just as real, just harder to put a number on.
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Less pressure at busy times. One consistent process instead of re-deriving the answer from memory or an old spreadsheet under time pressure.
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Staff can do it without you. Anyone on the team can produce a reliable result - work no longer bottlenecks on one person's head full of numbers.
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Less paperwork, less admin. No re-typing figures between a notepad, a spreadsheet, and an email - one place to enter it, once.
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Every record findable. Past work lives in one organised, digital record - not scattered across paper, memory, or someone's inbox.
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Fewer mistakes. The calculation is built in and consistent - less risk of an error slipping through on a busy day.
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A sharper first impression. A clean, organised result signals a business with its operations in order - to staff and to whoever's on the receiving end.