ROI Calculator
How much is a slow inbox actually costing you?
Four numbers about your enquiry process, and we'll estimate the staff time you're spending, and the consignors you're losing while emails sit unread.
Your enquiry process
Rough estimates are fine. The numbers update live.
8 hrs
15 min1 hr1 day3 days
£
How we calculate this
- Staff time per enquiry today: 15 minutes on average (reading the inbox, classifying, looking up the consignor, drafting, sending, logging).
- Staff time with ABSystems: 5 minutes. The enquiry is auto-routed, scored, and a draft reply is ready to edit.
- Lost-lead curve: replies within 15 minutes are treated as your conversion baseline. Beyond that, the share of enquiries that go on to consign decays on a softened power curve. The underlying research (the Lead Response Management study popularised by Harvard Business Review in 2011) found contact within 5 minutes converted vastly better than within an hour. We've used 15 minutes as the anchor so the estimate stays conservative.
With ABSystems
What you stand to recover
Staff hours saved
33 hrs/ month
400 hrs per year, about 4 working days a month across the team
Payroll cost reclaimed
£833/ month
£10,000 per year at £25/hr
Enquiries likely lost to slow replies
129/ month (65%)
Around 1,551 consignors per year going elsewhere while emails sit unread
Estimates only. Actual results depend on enquiry mix, specialist coverage, and how quickly drafts are reviewed.
Recover those hours, and those consignors.
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