Paperwork cost calculator
What does paperwork actually cost your business?
Paper is only one part of the cost. Use your own operation volume, paperwork time and staff costs to estimate what your current process costs you.
Use your own figures — not ours.
Nothing you enter here is sent anywhere. The calculation runs entirely in your browser, and you do not need to give us your details to see the result.
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Why paper is rarely the biggest number
Stationery is easy to count, so it is usually the figure people reach for. In most processes it is the smallest part. The larger cost is the handling around it — preparing the paperwork, completing it, chasing it, processing it, filing it, scanning it, transferring it, and finding it again when a client or an auditor asks.
Move the office-time slider above and watch which part of the bar grows. That is the point of the calculator: not to tell you a number, but to let you find your own.
See where that time actually goes
Bring the paperwork you use now and we will walk through it against the system.