ROI Calculator

See the value of automating utility AP

Estimate the time and cost your organization could recover by centralizing and automating utility invoice processing and payments with THG.

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Your Current Utility AP Process

Answer three simple questions to estimate the potential value of centralizing and automating your utility AP process.

How many utility invoices do you process each month?

Estimate the total number of utility invoices processed across your full portfolio each month.

How many buildings, facilities, or locations does your utility AP process cover?

Consider your entire portfolio, not just the locations handled by your central AP team.

How many people are involved in processing utility invoices?

Include AP, accounting, property or facility managers, and other staff who regularly process, review, approve, reconcile, or pay utility invoices.

Potential Annual Value from Utility AP Automation

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Estimated Value of Centralizing & Automating Utility AP with THG

Your answers:

Invoices / month

Locations

People involved

How Your Potential Annual Value Is Calculated

Labor Capacity Recovered

Value of Recovered Capacity

Avoided late payment costs

Your Potential Annual Value

Beyond Cost Savings: Operational Benefits for Your Organization

Your utility AP process is highly distributed. Multiple people spend time across the portfolio, creating administrative overhead and making consistent processing harder. How centralizing utility AP improves visibility and control:

Portfolio visibility

Track utility invoices from receipt through processing, coding, and payment.

Less manual data entry

Spend less time on repetitive invoice and GL data entry.

Greater process continuity

Make teams more efficient while reducing reliance on individual employees and location-specific knowledge.

Fewer missed payments

Reduce the risk of invoices being overlooked or paid late.

Fewer errors

Reduce manual entry and coding errors.

Consistent processing

Standardize utility AP processes across the portfolio.

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Results are estimates based on the assumptions below. These are THG modeling assumptions, not industry benchmarks. Actual results will vary, and the calculator does not guarantee savings, eliminate late fees, or quantify the financial impact of service interruptions.

15 minutes of effort per invoice

A conservative estimate of the organizational effort required to process a utility invoice. Actual effort can be significantly higher when invoices require research, exception handling, reconciliation, or follow-up.

50% efficiency improvement

THG assumes centralized processing reduces routine processing effort by 50%, equivalent to 7.5 minutes saved per invoice.

$35 per hour labor rate

Standardized fully loaded labor rate used to estimate the financial value of recovered capacity.

5% late-payment incidence

THG assumes 5% of utility invoices incur a late payment.

$37.50 average late-payment cost

Based on an illustrative $2,500 average utility invoice × 1.5% late fee. This is a THG modeling assumption, not an industry average.

90% reduction in late-payment costs

THG assumes centralized processing reduces late-payment costs by 90%.

2,000 productive hours per year

Used to express recovered labor capacity as an approximate FTE equivalent.