Free tool
What is quoting by hand really costing you?
Move the sliders to match your business. The answer counts two things: the hours you spend writing quotes and chasing payments, and the orders that go to whoever replied first.
- Hours spent quoting
- 32.5 h
- Hours spent chasing payments
- 7.6 h
- Value of that time
- R 12 016
- Orders lost to slow replies
- 4.5 · R 18 186
Stubie All-inclusive is R 6 999 a month. Manual quoting is costing you about 4.3× that.
Get those hours backHow the calculator works
Everything is per month, using 4.33 weeks a month and only the numbers you enter:
- Hours quoting = enquiries a month × minutes per quote ÷ 60.
- Hours chasing = enquiries a month × your win rate × minutes chasing each payment ÷ 60.
- Value of that time = total hours × what an hour of your time is worth.
- Orders lost to slow replies = enquiries a month × the share that went cold × your win rate, valued at your average job.
Why reply speed belongs in the sum
Customers who ask for a price on WhatsApp usually ask more than one supplier. International research found that businesses replying within an hour were about seven times more likely to qualify a lead than those that took longer (Harvard Business Review, 2011). If you don’t know your number, 10% is a cautious place to start.
What Stubie changes
Stubie reads each enquiry and drafts the priced quote from your list, so your part is a two-tap approval instead of a fifteen-minute write-up. Each accepted quote gets its own EFT reference and follow-ups, so chasing stops being a job. On a live order, the draft was ready 51 seconds after the enquiry landed. Try it in the live demo or compare it with hiring an admin.
Bring your numbers to a demo.
We'll run three of your real enquiries through Stubie and do the maths with you. If it doesn't pay for itself, we'll tell you.
Book a 20-minute demo