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How much doing the repetitive stuff by hand costs you a year

Invoicing, chasing payments, answering the same questions over and over, moving data from one spreadsheet to another. None of those tasks looks expensive on its own. Tick the ones you do in your business and see the total.

Tick what you do by hand

The values shown are averages for service SMEs. Adjust them to your case.

They're generated automatically from the order or appointment, with numbering and sending included.

Prices, timeframes, hours, order status: an assistant handles it.

Copy-pasting between programs is about the most automatable thing there is.

Hourly cost of whoever does these tasks€/h

Gross salary plus company overheads. If you do it yourself, put what your hour of work is worth.

The month at a glance

Out of your 22 working days, 2 go on repetitive tasks

Each square is an 8-hour working day. The gold part is the time eaten up by manual work.

Repetitive work Your real business
What it costs
Hours a month15,7 h
Cost a month313 €
Cost a year3760 €
Recoverable by automating3044 € a year
Equivalent to7,2% of a full working day

Where I'd start

Ranked by what's actually recoverable: not everything automates equally well.

Moving data from one tool to another1140 €/yr
95% automatable · Copy-pasting between programs is about the most automatable thing there is.
Answering the same questions every time1040 €/yr
65% automatable · Prices, timeframes, hours, order status: an assistant handles it.
Issuing and sending invoices864 €/yr
90% automatable · They're generated automatically from the order or appointment, with numbering and sending included.

Let's tackle the first item on that list

Based on your numbers, repetitive work costs you 3760 € a year and you could recover 3044 €. Thirty minutes to go through it and decide where to start, no commitment.

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These figures are an estimate based on what you enter and average automation ratios per task type. They're useful for sizing the problem, not an audit.