Time
People × hours per week × 47 working weeks a year (5 weeks of leave removed).
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What do your manual tasks cost you?
Choose a task, set three sliders. You see its yearly cost, what an automation can recover and how many months it takes to pay for itself, with our real prices.
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Method
How the calculation works
Cost
That time × the loaded hourly cost: gross pay, employer contributions and leave included. Count about 1.5 times the gross hourly pay; €35 by default.
Gain
We only count 60 % of the time recovered: part of every task stays human (checking, deciding, talking).
Payback
The price of the solution, from our catalogue, divided by the monthly gain, rounded up to the next month.
Examples
Three cases we often see
A construction company
Quotes reworked, site reports typed again in the evening, invoices chased.
- Yearly cost
- 9 870 €
- Recoverable
- 5 922 €
- Express automation pays for itself in
- 6 months
A haulier
Delivery notes copied into the invoicing software, clients chased.
- Yearly cost
- 16 450 €
- Recoverable
- 9 870 €
- Express automation pays for itself in
- 4 months
A manufacturing workshop
Orders received by e-mail typed again by hand, production followed in Excel.
- Yearly cost
- 13 160 €
- Recoverable
- 7 896 €
- Express automation pays for itself in
- 4 months
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Frequently asked questions
Cost of manual work and payback of an automation
How do I work out the cost of a manual task?
Multiply the time spent each week by the number of working weeks (about 47), then by the person's loaded hourly cost. Example: 5 h a week at €35 costs 8 225 € a year.
What is the loaded hourly cost?
What an hour of work really costs the company - gross pay, employer contributions, leave and absences. As an order of magnitude, about 1.5 times the gross hourly pay.
Why do you only count 60 % of the time?
Because an automation never removes everything. Checking, deciding and talking to clients remain. Counting 60 % gives a payback time you can rely on.
How much does an automation cost for an SME?
With us, an express automation of one workflow costs 2 490 € excl. VAT, and a full automation system starts at 5 900 € excl. VAT. Prices are public and the simulator uses them directly.
How long does an automation take to pay for itself?
It depends on the hours recovered. With 5 hours a week at €35 an hour, an express automation usually pays for itself within a few months. The simulator gives the exact figure for your case.
Are my answers saved?
Not unless you ask. The simulator computes directly in your browser. If you ask to receive the calculation by e-mail, we keep it with your details to send it and contact you; you can ask for it to be deleted at any time.
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