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NetSuite automation ROI calculator
How much time does your finance team spend re-keying data, fixing integration errors and chasing approvals? Enter your own figures and see the hours and cost that automation or integration could recover, the payback on a project, and what it could mean for your close.
Hours recovered per year
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Cost of that time per year
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Payback
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Days to close
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Manual hours per year, by area
Each bar is a year of manual work. The green part is what your chosen automation share could recover.
Payback and close scenario
Cumulative net saving over three years against your one-off project cost.
Close time
How the numbers are worked out
- Monthly manual hours = the five areas you entered, plus your rework rate on top.
- Hours recovered = monthly manual hours × your automation share × 12.
- Cost per year = hours recovered × your hourly cost.
- Monthly net saving = (cost per year − ongoing cost per year) ÷ 12.
- Payback in months = one-off project cost ÷ monthly net saving.
- New close = days to close × (1 − share of the close it touches × automation share).
Recovered time is capacity, not cash, unless you plan to use it differently. The calculator ignores the time it takes to build and bed in a change. Treat the result as a starting point for a conversation, not a business case.
ABOUT THIS DEMO
What this demo shows
Most NetSuite automation projects start with a simple question from the finance director: is it worth it? This calculator helps you frame an answer using your own figures. You enter what your team's time costs and how many hours a month go on five kinds of manual work: re-keying data between systems, fixing integration errors, month-end reconciliations, chasing approvals and building reports by hand. You then choose how much of that work you think automation could remove.
The calculator turns that into hours and cost per year, a bar chart showing where the time goes, a payback period against a project cost you enter, and a rough view of how your month-end close could shorten. Nothing is sent anywhere. Your figures stay in your browser.
A few things I'd keep in mind when using it:
- Be honest about the hours. Ask the people doing the work, or time a typical month. Guesses tend to be low for error fixing and chasing.
- Try more than one automation share. Some work stays manual, such as reviewing exceptions and making judgement calls. A cautious figure is more useful than a hopeful one.
- Recovered time is capacity. It becomes a saving only if the team uses it for work you would otherwise pay for, or stops needing extra help at month-end.
Integrations that fail quietly and data re-keyed between systems are often the first places to look. An integration platform such as Celigo, or native SuiteScript, can move the data and flag the exceptions that need a person. If you'd like to test these numbers against your own processes, a short call is the quickest way.
Want to test these numbers properly?
In a free call we'll look at where your team's time really goes in NetSuite, and which integrations or automations are worth doing first.