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Estimate the ROI of your software investment.

The hardest part of investing in better software is justifying the spend. This calculator turns the everyday costs your business already absorbs — downtime, overtime, missed maintenance, wasted inventory, stacked subscriptions, and manual admin — into an estimated annual return, payback period, and 5-year ROI.

1

Enter your investment

Put in what the software would cost you — a custom build, an ERP, or an off-the-shelf system plus setup.

2

Estimate your savings drivers

Adjust the sliders for downtime, overtime, missed maintenance, inventory waste, retired subscriptions, and admin time.

3

See the business case

Get estimated annual savings, a payback period, and a 5-year return — the numbers that justify the decision.

Reduced unplanned downtime$180,000/yr

Faster response and preventive maintenance keep lines running.

Reduced maintenance overtime$26,000/yr

Balanced scheduling replaces reactive scramble.

Fewer missed PMs$48,000/yr

Protecting the PM schedule protects the assets.

Reduced inventory waste$18,000/yr

Accurate stock levels cut expedite fees and dead stock.

Replaced software subscriptions$10,200/yr

One owned platform replaces stacked per-seat SaaS.

Reduced administrative work$27,300/yr

Less spreadsheet re-keying across the whole team.

Your investment

Enter what the software would cost you — a custom build, an ERP, or an off-the-shelf system plus setup.

Estimated annual savings

$309,500

Payback period

0.8 mo

5-year ROI

+7,638%

Against a one-time investment of $20,000 (Software $15,000 + implementation $5,000). 5-year return of $1,527,500 assumes savings hold steady with no recurring license fee.

Savings by driver

Reduced unplanned downtime$180,000
Reduced maintenance overtime$26,000
Fewer missed PMs$48,000
Reduced inventory waste$18,000
Replaced software subscriptions$10,200
Reduced administrative work$27,300

Estimates only. Every figure above is one you entered — adjust the sliders to match your operation. We will model this against your real numbers on a discovery call.

Ready to run the real numbers?

Let’s pressure-test this against your business.

These are estimates from the figures you entered. Book a consultation and we will model it against your actual operation — or see how a system you own outright changes the math on the Olmem ERP platform.