GARAFORCEField Service ROI Calculator
Manual dispatch does not show up as a line item — it shows up as hours. Enter your crew size, job volume and hourly cost to see what coordination, paperwork and avoidable drive time are costing you each month, and what a scheduling system could realistically give back.
Your team
People doing billable work on site
Average, not peak
Wage + taxes + vehicle + overhead
Typically 20–22
Time lost per job
Calls, texts and rescheduling to get the right person to the right address
Work orders, photos, signatures, re-typing notes into the office system
Backtracking caused by routes built by hand
Keep this conservative. No tool removes coordination entirely.
Your estimate
Roughly 96 additional jobs per month could fit into the recovered hours, at your current job length.
This is an illustrative estimate produced from the values you entered — not a measurement of your business and not a promise of savings. Adjust the inputs to match your own records before using the figure in a decision.
How the calculation works
Step 1 — job volume. Technicians × jobs per day × working days = jobs per month.
Step 2 — overhead per job. Coordination + paperwork + avoidable drive minutes, summed for each job.
Step 3 — cost. Those minutes converted to hours and multiplied by your loaded hourly cost.
Step 4 — recovery. Only the share you set as recoverable is counted, then annualised over twelve months.
Frequently asked questions
How does this field service ROI calculator work?
It multiplies the time your team loses on manual coordination — phone dispatch, paper work orders, chasing proof of work and avoidable drive time — by your loaded hourly cost, then applies a recovery rate to estimate what a scheduling system could give back.
Where do the default time assumptions come from?
The defaults are conservative planning figures, not measured results from your business. Every input is editable — replace them with your own numbers to get a figure that reflects your operation.
What is a loaded hourly cost?
The full hourly cost of a technician to the business: wage plus payroll taxes, insurance, vehicle, fuel, tools and overhead. It is typically 1.3 to 1.7 times the base wage.
Is the result a guarantee of savings?
No. The output is an illustrative estimate based on the values you enter. Actual results depend on your workflows, crew size, job mix and how consistently the system is used.
See where those hours actually go
Open the interactive demo to watch a week of jobs get dispatched, documented and closed, or send us a typical week and we will lay it out on the board for you.
Related
GARAFORCE is an operational scheduling and field-documentation tool. It records work performed on site and does not issue professional opinions, certified valuations or regulatory compliance certificates, and it does not replace a licensed professional. The figures on this page are estimates, not financial advice.