Time-Saving Calculator

YOUR FIGURES

Three entries, one assumption.

Use the numbers you know. Where you do not know them, estimate low rather than high — a calculator that promises too much is no help in making a decision.

RESULT PER YEAR

Drafting time that falls away 0 hrs

Value at your hourly rate 0

Drafting time per deed that remains 0

THE ASSUMPTION, IN THE OPEN

The 60 per cent is an assumption we have set, not a measurement. It is deliberately conservative and describes the share of draft preparation taken over by reading the documents and filling your own template. Checking, amending and approving stay with the notary’s office and are contained in the time that remains.

What is missing before that figure can be replaced: the parallel run at the pilot office, where the same matters are handled once as before and once with NotarFlow and the times are taken. It is planned and has not yet been carried out. Once the measurements exist, the measured figure will stand here instead of the assumed one — and this line will say when it was taken.

Until then: the calculator is a model, not a promise. It does not replace the conversation in which we work through a real matter from your own office.

YOUR FIGURES STAY HERE

This page does its arithmetic in the browser. There is no form that gets submitted, no call to a server and no measurement running in the background — a notary’s case numbers are the office’s own knowledge, and they do not leave this device.

The button above opens your browser’s print dialogue, where you can choose “Save as PDF”. That too runs on your machine. A PDF generator at our end would be exactly the transmission this paragraph rules out.

WHAT THE CALCULATOR DOES NOT SAY

Three things it leaves out.

A time-saving calculator works out one side of the equation. So that you do not have to go looking for the other, here it is.

What NotarFlow costs is not in the result.

Deliberately: the licence depends on which building blocks you book, and the figures are set out openly on the pricing page. Subtract the annual sum for your blocks from the result and you have the calculation that matters. We do not build it in here, because a difference that automatically comes out “favourable” would be a sales trick rather than a calculation.

Hours saved are not automatically money saved.

In most offices the time freed up is not cut, it is used differently — more deeds with the same staff, shorter waiting times for clients, fewer hours of overtime. The value above prices the time; it does not claim the time arrives as a reduction in costs. What becomes of it is your office’s decision.

Introduction and set-up are not included.

Taking over templates, defining variants, settling the completion chains, a trial run, training — that costs office time once, and noticeably so. Reckon on four to six weeks before routine operation. In the first year the result above is therefore too high; from the second it holds.

And the other building blocks?

This calculator looks only at drafting time. Deadlines no longer watched by hand, returning post that files itself, an estate inventory that is not retyped — none of that is included here. It would be easy to add; it would simply no longer be checkable.

What does the retyping cost you a year?

Three entries, one assumption.

Three things it leaves out.

Do the sums with your own figures.