Free Tool · Your Numbers, Not Ours
What does manual
design intake actually
cost you?
Nobody budgets for it, but it's there in every custom order: a few minutes emailing for artwork, a few more fixing the file, then a proof that sits in someone's inbox for two days. It doesn't feel like much order to order. Add up a year of orders and it usually turns into a salary. Plug in your own numbers below and see what yours actually comes out to.
Calculated from your inputs — no invented industry averages
Yearly hours and cost of manual intake
Honest comparison against real WTPBiz pricing
The invisible workflow between "customer wants custom" and "file in the print queue."
1
Artwork collection
The email thread: requesting files, wrong formats, low-resolution uploads, missing bleed.
2
File fixing & proofing
Repairing what arrived, building a proof, sending it, waiting, revising, re-sending.
3
Approval chasing
The order that can't print because the customer hasn't replied — for the third day.
A web-to-print designer moves all three steps into the browser, once, instead of into someone's inbox every time. The customer sets dimensions and bleed themselves, the tool enforces them, and the preview they approve at checkout is the proof — nobody has to build a separate one. What lands in your queue is already print-ready. The number above is what that's worth to you.
ROI calculator FAQs
What does the ROI calculator measure?
What manual design intake costs you over a year — the time spent collecting artwork, fixing files, building proofs, and waiting on approvals. It's built entirely from your own order volume, handling time, and hourly cost, not an industry average.
Where do the numbers come from?
You. There's no benchmark baked in and nothing estimated on your behalf — you type in your own figures and the calculator just does the arithmetic. The one number that isn't yours is WTPBiz's own plan pricing, and it's labeled as such.
What counts as design intake time?
Anything between "customer wants something custom" and "file's ready to print": chasing artwork by email, checking it's the right resolution and has bleed, fixing it when it isn't, building a proof, sending it, and waiting on a reply.
How does web to print reduce this cost?
It moves the design step into the browser. The customer sets up the file themselves against your specs, approves the live preview at checkout, and what shows up in your queue is already print-ready — no email thread required.
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