In a related KnowledgeBase document we made this claim:

If your customers use uDesignIT! only four times in any given month, uDesignIT! will pay for itself in the efficiency it creates.

Let's start with some assumptions:

• While uDesignIT! may be used for any document, one of the most common uses is business cards. We'll base our assumptions on the use of business cards.
• Your design rate is at least $70 per hour.
• Without the use of uDesignIT! it takes 20 minutes per card to cover typesetting, proofing with customer, and all the back-and-forth that takes your employee time.
• uDesignIT! eliminates 15 of the 20 minutes required to produce a business card. How? You'll get a production-ready card, already proofed by your customer. Your employee's responsibility is then reduced to entering the production-ready PDF generated by the website into your workflow. You still get to bill for those 15 minutes saved!

Here's the math...

15 minutes (or .25 hour) saved x 4 cards per month = 1 hour design time saved.

1 hour design time saved @ $70 per hour = $70 per month that can be converted into billable time.

So, instead of your employees spending an extra 15 minutes to go through the process of putting a job into the system, they can instead use those minutes saved to generate an extra $70 of design or prepress revenue each month! It only takes four uses each month to arrive at that figure, anything beyond those four uses tips the scales even further into your favor.