Why five
The plan is a page of numbers for your shop, mailed to you, quoted before you start and with no sales call before it. To make it we need the ERP (which door STRYKE uses), how POs arrive (which intake doors), the books (whether QuickBooks Online is a sign-in), the hours a week spent keying (the dollars) and how long one PO takes (the per-document figure). Nothing else changes the numbers, so nothing else is asked. Each screen is one question with a hint under it, the list of answers most shops give, and a search box for the rest; a guess is fine on the two that ask for a figure, and the plan says which figure it used.
1. "What runs your floor?"
The ERP or shop system your orders live in. Thirty-three are on the list and typing finds the rest. This answer picks the door: JobBOSS² and Odoo by API with your keys, an ERP with an import by import file, a classic install by the desktop runner, Epicor Kinetic, Global Shop Solutions and ProShop through "Tell us your ERP", NetSuite in pilot. The plan's connect line says which, and what to have ready.
2. "How do purchase orders reach you?"
Pick every way; most shops have three or four. Email with a PDF from a buyer's Outlook, a fax-to-email line, a portal such as Ariba or Coupa, EDI through a VAN or a Web-EDI inbox, phone and voicemail, a text with a photo of the part. Each one is an intake door STRYKE opens on your side, with nothing for the buyer to change, and the plan lists them.
3. "What keeps the books?"
Where invoices and bills end up. QuickBooks Online is a sign-in at Intuit, and the plan says so: a vendor invoice becomes a Bill with the PDF attached, a shipment an Invoice, a payment a Receive Payment. Anything else is the books side of a later conversation; the ERP entry does not depend on it, and the one-way sync between your ERP and your books stays as it is.
4. "Hours a week spent keying orders and invoices?"
Across everyone who does it; a guess is fine. This is the one figure the dollars come from. Hours a week times 52, divided by 12, is hours a month; times $25* an hour (about $19 plus 30 percent for benefits, until you set your own rate) is dollars a month. Twelve hours a week is 52 hours a month and $1,300* a month; against the $500 price that is 2.6 times over, paid back in 12 days. Pricing says what the asterisk means and when it goes away.
5. "How long does one PO take you today, by hand?"
From opening the email to the order in your ERP; a guess is fine. This answer drives only the per-document figures: what one keyed PO costs you (ten minutes at $25* is $4.17*) and "about N POs a month", which is your hours divided by your minutes. It never changes the dollars. For scale, APQC's published benchmark puts the total cost of handling an order that arrived by paper, fax, phone or email between $7 and $21, keying and the chasing around it together.
Why no sixth question
There used to be one. POs a month times minutes a PO times the rate gives the same dollars as hours a week does, and when the two answers disagreed the plan once stated two different months. Now the dollars come from the hours alone and the minutes drive only the per-PO figures, so "Your week" and "What it is worth" state one month. A plan that argues with itself is worse than a shorter one.
What comes back
The plan arrives by email: your week, what it is worth, how STRYKE connects to your ERP and your books, what happens next (live in hours; a document under your confidence line or carrying a flag is held from the first, and you decide where that line sits) and the one price. A phone number is optional; we call during go-live when something needs a person, and we never text marketing. Then it is your decision, and the product page shows what you would be deciding on. The questions themselves are at /demo.