What does invoice typing actually cost?
The short answer: about two working days a month, if you handle 150 invoices
At six minutes each, 150 invoices take about 15 hours a month. Office time costs around €35 an hour, or €60 if you type them yourself. Automatic capture handles about 90% of invoices and passes the rest to a person, so you get most of those hours back, not all of them.
≈ €550 a month walks away.
15 hours a month of typing.
Estimate. Model: 150 invoices at 6 minutes is ~15 hours a month of typing. The machine reads them instead. Your real numbers replace it on the call.
The methodology
Every assumption on this page is editable. Change the bands, the model recalculates. The defaults come from published studies and worked models, each one cited below.
The math, step by step
- Typing hours a month150 × 6 min ÷ 60 = 15 hours
- Cost of those hours15 hours × €35 = €550
- Hours the machine takes15 hours × 90% = 14 hours
Sources: HBR lead-response audit (2,241 firms) · practitioner-reported no-show curves (labelled model) · industry answer-rate studies · our own worked models, stated openly. Where a number is a model, it says so next to the number.
The calculator shows the gap. The analysis shows the fix.
Where do the default numbers come from?
Published studies and worked models, each cited under the calculator. Every assumption is editable, so your numbers replace ours in seconds.
Is this a quote?
No. It's the size of the gap, not the price of the fix. The fix gets a fixed quote after a free analysis.
Can I save the result?
The exit file has the same math for your industry, and the free Inefficiency Scan emails you a full report.