Approval Automation ROI Calculator
Are your jobs sitting in approval limbo?
When jobs sit waiting on customer approvals, your team keeps following up, your schedule backs up, and cash flow stalls. This calculator puts a real dollar figure on that drag. Enter a few numbers about your shop's current approval process and see what drawn-out approvals are actually costing you — and what you'd recover by automating it.
What This Calculator Helps You Do
Expose the Time Loss: Quantify the hours your staff loses every month to manual follow-ups, lost art proofs, and phone check-ins.
Identify the Bottleneck: See how much production delay is caused by orders waiting on customer sign-off.
Calculate Labor Recovery: Translate saved minutes into monthly labor dollars and what email threads are really costing you.
Empower Your Team: See how many hours you could redirect from admin busywork back into growth.
The Hidden Cost of Waiting
Most shops know approvals are a headache, but few have measured what that headache actually costs. Every follow-up email or call your team sends is billable time spent on admin instead of production. Every day a job idles in approval limbo is a day it isn't printed, shipped, or invoiced. Multiply that across dozens of jobs a week and the number gets uncomfortable fast. Shops that switch to automated approval workflows consistently report shorter turnaround times, fewer dropped balls, and staff freed up to focus on work that actually moves jobs forward. Before you can fix the problem, you need to see it clearly — and that's what this calculator is built to do.
Calculate the Cost of Waiting
Run the numbers for your shop and build the case for automated approvals — see your estimated savings in minutes.