Returns calculator for Nepal: what the hours are worth

What this calculates, and what it does not

It turns four figures you enter into an estimate of the hours involved each month and what those hours cost you. It does arithmetic on your numbers, using assumptions this site chose. It is not a measured outcome, a benchmark or a promise.

That is why the assumptions are printed beside the result, where you can see them. A number in a sales tool that does not show its working proves nothing.

The four assumptions

1. Thirty per cent of the manual hours stop being manual. An order becomes an invoice without re-keying, and reports come out of the system instead of a spreadsheet. Your own share could be higher or lower.
2. One billing error per eighty invoices a month. A rate chosen, not measured, applied to the volume you entered.
3. Ten minutes to find and fix one error, and seven in ten of them avoided. Both figures are estimates.
4. Two hours a month per branch beyond the first, spent coordinating between branches, which one shared system removes.

Hours are then valued at the cost per hour you entered, so the rupee figure reflects your team rather than a national average.

How to read the comparison

The estimate is set against the published monthly plan prices: Standard at NPR 1,500/month and Premium at NPR 2,000/month. Enterprise is priced for each business, so the tool names it but does not compare against it. If the monthly estimate is larger than the price, the tool says how many times larger. If it is smaller, the tool says what share of the price it covers, which is the fairer way to show it for a small shop.

Two things are deliberately left out of that comparison, and both count against the software: VAT on the subscription, and your own time spent importing data, learning the system and training staff.

Where the real value sits

The hours estimate is the cautious part. Things that usually matter more to a business in Nepal are harder to measure, so they are left out here. Examples are knowing what stock you hold across branches, having VAT figures ready instead of rebuilding them, and finding out in Bhadra, not Ashadh, that a product is losing money. Kuver Books includes 4 insight hubs, 16 KPIs, 16 charts for this, and none of it is counted in the figure above.

Test it against your own books

The most useful version of this calculation is the one you run after a fortnight of using the software with your own bills. 14-day free trial, no card required, so you can check whether the hours you entered were right in the first place.