Meeting Management ROI Calculator
The Meeting Management ROI Calculator estimates annual and five-year savings in paper, printing, labor time, and environmental impact by inputting meeting frequency, printing details, and costs to demonstrate the benefits of using Catalis Meeting Management for government organizations.
Calculate Your Savings
With Meeting Management
This page provides a calculator to estimate your savings with Catalis Meeting Management. The calculator allows you to input the following data:
- Number of regular meetings per year
- Number of committee meetings per year
- Other meetings (staff, etc.)
- Average number of packages printed per meeting
- Average number of pages in agenda
- Paper costs per ream (500 sheets)
- Printing costs per page
- Average cost of labor
Based on these inputs, the calculator estimates:
- Savings in paper
- Savings in printing
- Time savings (average 5 hours of prep time per meeting)
- Savings in minutes creation
- Time saved distributing participant packages (average 20 minutes per meeting)
- Time saved on public inquiries for agenda items
- Total annual savings
- 5-year estimated savings
- 5-year estimate of trees saved (1 tree makes 16.67 reams of copy paper or 8,333 sheets, per www.conservatree.com)
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