ROI Calculator
What does paper really cost your program team?
Slide your co-op's numbers below. See the hours, dollars, and program capacity you'd get back by moving intake, workflows, and reporting into one system.
Defaults reflect a typical distribution co-op. Every assumption is adjustable — and shown.
680 hours per year given back. $26,000 in staff time. 0.38 FTE of capacity. That's 76% of your program-admin time back.
That's 76% of your program-admin time back.
Your year, before and after
What 680 hours actually means
A part-time person you already employ.
0.38FTE isn't a layoff — it's your program admin finally working on programs instead of paperwork.
3 more programs, zero new hires.
EV chargers, community solar, demand response — capacity for the programs your board keeps asking about.
Cycle time members feel.
Co-ops running validated digital intake typically move rebates from 3–6 weeks to 5–10 days. Saved hours are only half the story.
The five places paper eats your year
Every slider above feeds one of five buckets. This is the anatomy of program-admin time at a typical co-op:
1.Processing
Opening mail and email, keying data into spreadsheets, looking up accounts, checking eligibility, calculating rebates by hand.
Digital fix: validated smart forms with the math built in.
2.Correction loops
40–60% of paper applications arrive missing something. Each one becomes phone tag, voicemail, and re-review.
Digital fix: forms that can't be submitted incomplete.
3.Member calls
“Do I qualify?” and “Where's my rebate?” — answered one at a time.
Digital fix: instant eligibility screening and self-serve status.
4.Reporting
Board packets, G&T quarterlies, state filings assembled by re-keying spreadsheet data.
Digital fix: reports that build themselves from live data, on a schedule.
5.Reconciliation
Matching the tracking spreadsheet to the CIS to accounting, month after month.
Digital fix: one system of record with integrations.
Keep your numbers.
We'll email you a one-page summary of your results — your inputs, your savings, and the assumptions behind them. Handy for the conversation with your GM.
No spam, no drip campaign. One email with your PDF, and one follow-up offer to walk through it. That's it.
Frequently asked questions
Where do the improvement percentages come from?
From how co-op programs behave when intake moves from paper/PDF to validated digital forms: processing drops because data arrives structured and calculated; correction loops drop because forms can't be submitted incomplete; calls drop because status is self-serve; reporting drops because it assembles from live data. Each one is editable — set them to whatever you'd need to see.
Is this really our savings?
It's a directional estimate built on your inputs and conservative assumptions, counting staff time only. Faster member cycle times, audit readiness, and fewer errors come on top.
We only run one or two programs. Is it still worth it?
Slide it down and see — reporting and correction loops usually carry the savings even at low volume. Small co-ops often see the biggest percentage of time returned.
What does SaaS eForms cost against this?
Pricing depends on programs and volume. Bring your calculator results to a 20-minute call and we'll put the two numbers side by side — most co-ops see payback well inside the first year.
The hours are real. Go get them back.
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