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What is manual quoting actually costing you?

Plug in your numbers below. See the cost in time, lost jobs, and pricing errors — calculated against benchmarks from real service businesses.

Step 1

Your quoting workflow today

Tunes how much faster response time wins jobs in your industry.
How many quotes do you write in a typical week?
min
End-to-end time: gathering scope, writing, formatting, sending.
$
Average dollar value of a quote you send.
%
Of the quotes you send, what percent become paid jobs?
$/hr
What you'd bill a client, or what you'd pay to replace yourself.
Step 2

What you're leaving on the table

Annual cost of manual quoting, based on your numbers.

$66,239
per year in lost time, jobs, and margin
These are the example numbers from our blog post. Adjust the inputs for your business to see your real savings.
Time recovered
$18,525
494 hours/year reclaimed from quoting, valued at 25% of your hourly rate.
Jobs won from faster response
$38,025
~12.7 additional jobs/year captured by responding same-day instead of days later.
Margin recovered on underpriced quotes
$6,552
10% of jobs typically underpriced by 8% — margin recovered when AI checks against your real pricing history.
Revision overhead recovered
$3,137
~257 revisions/year that take 30 seconds instead of 20 minutes.
Setell's Business plan is $49/month. Based on your numbers, it pays for itself in 3 days and returns 113× what you pay over the year.
Where these numbers come from

Built on benchmarks, not aspiration

The math behind this calculator comes from our blog post, The True Cost of Manual Quoting. Every constant has a source — service-business buying research, internal benchmarks from Setell customers, or conservative estimates anchored to public data. We apply a 25% recovery factor on time savings because not every saved hour converts to billable work, and we cap total annual value at 50% of your estimated quoted revenue — beyond that the model isn't reliable. You should expect the real number to land within about 30% of what you see above.

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