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The hours you get back, in money

Looking for information, retyping service reports, reconciling spreadsheets, chasing approvals and building reports. Tell us how much time goes into that and how much you expect to cut. We show you the whole calculation.

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To recalculate with your numbers, this calculator needs JavaScript. In the meantime, you see the result with the sample values. Further down you have the formulas to do the math in a spreadsheet.

Your numbers

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Currency

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Your team today

Office staff

Administration, coordination, customer service and team leads.

Hours a week per office person on these tasks

Looking for information, retyping service reports, reconciling spreadsheets, chasing approvals and preparing reports.

Field staff

Technicians, installers and anyone who works outside the office.

Hours a week per field person on these tasks

Filling in service reports, calling the office for information, going back for paperwork and writing down hours and materials.

Average cost per hour

Salary plus employer costs, divided by the hours worked in a year.

Working weeks a year

The 52 weeks of the year minus vacation and public holidays.

With attendo

Time reduction on these tasks

How much of that time would no longer be done by hand.

Annual cost of attendo (optional)

If you already have a proposal, enter what it would cost you per year, including licenses, implementation and training. Left empty, we only calculate the savings.

Result

With the sample values

€14,063 a year in hours your team gets back

562.5 h a year

Hours a week you get back: 12.5 hAcross the whole team
What these tasks cost today: €56,250 a year2,250 h a year

If you already have a proposal, enter the annual cost of attendo to see the return and the months to recover it.

Cost per year

Today €56,250

With attendo €42,188

Time on these tasks

This is an estimate based on your numbers and the assumptions we explain below. It is not an offer or a promise of results.

Shall we email you this calculation?

With your numbers, the result, the assumptions and the link to open it again.

How we calculate

The whole calculation, in plain sight

It is an estimate based on your numbers. These are the formulas with the calculator’s numbers: they change with what you enter above.

The math, step by step

Each line shows what we calculate, with which formula and with which numbers.

Hours a week on these tasks

office staff × hours + field staff × hours

5 × 6 + 10 × 2 equals 50 h
Hours a year

hours a week × working weeks

50 × 45 equals 2,250 h
Cost per year, today

hours a year × cost per hour

2,250 × €25 equals €56,250
Hours you get back

hours a year × reduction

2,250 × 25% equals 562.5 h
Savings per year

hours you get back × cost per hour

562.5 × €25 equals €14,063

Assumptions

We only count the time spent on the tasks you tell us about. Technical work and customer service are not included.
The time you get back is valued at your cost per hour. It is not cash leaving the bank: it is time your team spends on something else.
If you enter the cost of attendo, we treat it as a yearly cost. The months to recover it come from spreading the year’s savings over 12 months.
The reduction is the same for the office and the field.

What we leave out

We leave it out so we do not inflate the result.

The errors you stop making when nobody copies data by hand.
Getting paid sooner because service reports arrive sooner. That is what the service reports and paperwork calculator is for.
Better-served customers and renewals. They exist, but we cannot measure them with five numbers.

Sample values and why

They are not industry averages or figures from a study: they are a starting point so you do not start from a blank page.

Office staff: 5A small office.
Hours a week per office person on these tasks: 6 hA little over an hour a day. Measure it for a week and enter your own figure.
Field staff: 10A mid-sized technical team.
Hours a week per field person on these tasks: 2 hAbout 25 minutes a day. Count only the admin work, not the technical work.
Average cost per hour: €25An average cost including employer costs. Enter yours: it is the number that moves the result the most.
Working weeks a year: 4552 weeks minus about 7 weeks of vacation and public holidays.
Time reduction on these tasks: 25%A cautious starting point: one hour in four. Reviewing, deciding and handling exceptions always remain.
Annual cost of attendo (optional): EmptyIt starts empty: we do not publish prices on the website.

With attendo

Where the improvement comes from

The “with attendo” scenario is not magic: it comes from these features. You set the percentage.

What comes in, comes in once

Tickets, emails, service reports and documents land on the same record. Nobody copies them from an email into a spreadsheet.

Approvals with their own flow

The approval reaches the right person and is logged. No more chasing it by email.

The service report arrives signed

The technician closes the service report in the app with photos, hours and signature. Nobody at the office retypes it.

Reports that already exist

Reports come from the day’s data and are emailed whenever you schedule them. Nobody builds them on Friday.

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Frequently asked questions

Where does the 25% reduction come from?

It is a cautious starting point, not a measurement or a figure from a study. There is always work that does not get automated: reviewing, deciding and handling exceptions. Change it to whatever you think is reasonable, and try a lower value too.

Why is the price of attendo not shown?

Because we do not publish prices on the website: they depend on the modules, the number of people and the implementation. If you already have a proposal, enter its annual cost and you will see the return and the months to recover it.

Are the savings money I really save?

It is time valued at your cost per hour. It turns into money if that time goes to billable work or saves you a new hire. That is why we talk about hours you get back, not money coming in.

How do I measure the hours spent on these tasks?

Ask two or three people to write it down for a normal week. Have them note the time spent looking for information, retyping service reports, reconciling spreadsheets, chasing approvals and preparing reports. One measured week is worth more than any average.

Do you store the data I enter?

Not unless you ask us to email you the calculation. The calculation runs in your browser. The values stay in the page address so you can share the result: they only travel with the link if you share it. If you ask for the calculation by email, we keep your email address with the values and the result to send it to you, as the privacy policy explains.

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