Will this actually help you?
Run the numbers
Your numbers
Orders you currently take manually through chat, marketplaces, or calls.
What a typical order is worth.
Chatting, confirming, invoicing, and following up, start to finish.
What an hour of that manual work is really worth.
People who message and never get a reply fast enough to buy.
The verdict
Time to build the store
Manual handling is costing you roughly $357 a month between staff time and lost inquiries. A proper store pays for itself in about 0.5 months.
Manual hours
Per month, on order handling
Labor cost
Per month
Revenue lost to friction
From slow manual response
Payback period
At a $181 build
This treats manual staff time as a real cost, and slow response as a real leak. Both are easy to underestimate. Numbers here are a directional model, not an audit of your actual operation.
Want a straight answer on whether this is worth doing?