Doing nothing isn't free. Here's what waiting costs you.
Adjust the numbers to match your operation. Everything below is built from figures you'd recognize — not our claims. The status quo has a price; this is it.
Wasted labor
$5,581/mo
Time spent on manual order entry, inventory reconciliation, and chasing receivables — instead of selling. Add a line per role, each with its own rate.
RolePeopleHrs/wk$/hr
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Lost revenue
$9,600/mo
Start from your real monthly volume, then dial in what's slipping to slow reorders, stockouts, or accounts drifting to a competitor — the losses you find out about too late.
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Average order value: $1,200
$9,600/mo lost · 3.6% of your orders & GMV · $115,200/yr
Trapped cash
$3,125/mo
Cash stuck in receivables can't buy inventory or make payroll. With no easy lending and 280E in play, that carrying cost is real money.
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Cost of waiting one quarter
$54,918
That's $602 a day · $4,225 a week · $219,671 a year
Leaking while we've been talking
$0.58
Where it's going, per month
Wasted labor$5,581
Lost revenue$9,600
Trapped cash$3,125
Total cost of the status quo$18,306 / mo
The other side
What Apex gives back
The status quo above isn't just a cost — it's the ceiling on what you recover. Here's the same labor, in reverse: order handling and reporting time that Apex hands back, netted against the plan cost so the figure is real, not gross.
Your inputs
Built on the same logic as your existing savings model — per-order handling plus reporting, with Apex's time reduction applied.
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Net savings with Apex
$11,994
That's $999 a month after your plan · $19,182/yr recovered before plan cost
74 hrs
reclaimed every month
2.7×
back for every $1 on Apex
What you recover, per month
Order handling — menus, orders, inventory$1,215
Reporting & insights$383
Gross labor recovered$1,598
Less Apex — Small Business−$599
Net savings$999 / mo
Excludes upside this model can't price: new buyer leads, sales won from those leads, and CRM / pipeline efficiency. Recovered labor is the floor, not the ceiling.