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How much is manual paperwork costing your business?
Your staff may be spending hours copying information, chasing approvals, generating documents, and collecting signatures by hand. Enter a few numbers to estimate the time and payroll that process takes, then see what a connected workflow can automate. No logins, no sign-up.
Free 60-second estimate
Enter a few numbers. No logins, no personal info.
Estimate the time and payroll your team spends collecting information, copying data, creating documents, chasing approvals, and getting signatures. You will see the cost before we ask for anything.
People who touch this process
Time each one spends on it weekly
Fully loaded pay per hour
Corrections or do-overs (optional)
Average time per correction (optional)
Usually 52
Enter employees, hours per week, hourly cost, and weeks per year to see your estimate.
Why manual paperwork quietly adds up
The cost is rarely one big line item. It is a few minutes here and there: retyping what a customer already told you, emailing a PDF for a signature, waiting on an approval nobody can see the status of, then fixing the record when a field was missing. Multiply those minutes by the people involved and the weeks in a year, and a routine process can quietly cost more than a piece of software would.
What a connected workflow changes
- Stop copying the same information between forms, email, and spreadsheets
- Route requests to the right person for approval automatically
- Create documents and agreements from the data you already collected
- Collect signatures without emailing PDFs back and forth
- See where a request is stuck instead of chasing it
- Reduce missing information with required fields and a clear next step
Formstack connects forms, document generation, eSignatures, and the workflow between them, which fits most paperwork bottlenecks. For broader, cross-department process redesign or contract lifecycle management, Intellistack Streamline is the heavier tool, and Norvet can help you tell which one you actually need. The numbers above are estimates from what you entered: automating the workflow can cut repeated data entry and handoffs, but it will not remove every hour or every error.
Common questions
- How is the cost estimated?
- It is straight arithmetic on the numbers you enter. Annual hours are employees times hours per week times weeks per year; annual labor cost multiplies that by your hourly cost. Rework adds corrections per month times hours per fix times twelve. Nothing is assumed about your business beyond what you type, and the result is an estimate, not a quote.
- What counts as a "manual process"?
- Any repeatable task where staff collect the same information, copy it between systems, create documents by hand, chase approvals, or email files back and forth for signature. Common examples are customer intake, employee onboarding, purchase approvals, and proposal or contract generation.
- Will automating this remove the whole cost?
- No. A connected form, document, approval, and signature workflow can cut repeated data entry and handoffs, but some review and judgment stays with people. Treat the figure as the size of the problem worth looking at, not a promised saving.
- What is the difference between Formstack and Intellistack Streamline?
- Formstack covers forms, document generation, eSignatures, and the connected workflow between them, which fits most paperwork bottlenecks. Intellistack Streamline is broader AI-native process automation and contract lifecycle management for more complex, cross-department redesigns. The trial link here is for Formstack; ask Norvet if a Streamline-level review is the better fit.
- What does Norvet do here?
- Norvet maps your current process, designs the form and conditional logic, sets up document templates and eSignature steps, wires approvals and integrations to your existing tools, then tests, trains your staff, and supports it. You get a working workflow, not just a form-builder login.