The keying calculator
What is the typing
actually costing you?
Four numbers off your own order desk. Every assumption behind the answer is on screen and yours to change — put your own in and the figure becomes yours rather than ours.
Your order desk
Finding it, reading it, typing it, checking it.
Fully loaded — wage plus everything on top of it.
Freight back, restocking, reshipping, and the phone call.
Assumptions
These three are our starting points, not industry research. We have no sourced benchmark for your business — so change them until they look like your Tuesday, and the answer becomes yours rather than ours.
The rest come in already structured and need no keying.
The remainder still needs a person, and always will.
What keying costs you
$145,200
a year, in labour and mistakes
- Orders keyed by hand
- 3,000 a month
- Time spent keying
- 250 hrs a month
- That is about
- 1.4 full-time people
- Labour
- $8,500 a month
- Orders that go out wrong
- 30 a month · $3,600
What Never Retype gives back
$116,160
a year, at 80% of your orders going through without anyone touching them.
Orders and errors round down — nobody keys three fifths of a purchase order, and you either shipped the wrong thing or you did not.