The calculator is deliberately conservative. It counts only two effects that are easy to defend, recovered time and consolidated tooling, and ignores several that are real but harder to promise.
Recovered time
You tell us how many people work in operations and how many hours each loses weekly to manual and duplicate work: re-typing data between systems, reconciling spreadsheets, chasing status. We assume a single connected platform recovers 55% of that time, not all of it: meetings still happen, exceptions still need humans. The recovered hours are valued at the loaded salary you enter, nothing more.
Tool and licence savings
Each disconnected system you replace carries licence fees, renewals and the quiet cost of maintaining integrations between tools that were never designed to talk. We baseline this at AED 2,200 per system per month and assume consolidation saves 40% of it. If your actual licence bills are higher, the estimate is understating your saving.
Indicative payback
The payback figure compares your estimated annual saving against a typical phased implementation cost for a business of your size. It is a sanity check, not a quote: real implementation cost depends on modules, data quality and customization depth, which is exactly what a scoping call establishes.
What the number leaves out
Deliberately excluded: fewer invoicing errors, faster month-end close, audit and compliance readiness (ZATCA, VAT, ETA e-invoicing come built into Odoo's localizations), and better decisions from live data. These are usually worth more than the line items we do count, but they deserve a conversation, not a slider.
Bring your numbers to a discovery call and we will validate them against your actual operations, module by module. If the case does not hold, we will tell you that too: systems that should not be sold do not stay live, and ours stay live.