The arithmetic, in one line
The dashboard, the plan that /demo mails and this post all use one piece of arithmetic, kept in one place in the code so no two pages can disagree. Documents a month, times the minutes it takes to key one by hand, divided by sixty, is hours a month. Hours times what an hour of that time costs is dollars a month. Those dollars against the $500 flat price is how many times over the month pays for itself, and how many days of the month the $500 takes to earn back.
Until a shop sets its own figures, the site uses two defaults: ten minutes to key one document, and $25 an hour, which is about $19 in wages plus 30 percent for benefits. Every dollar figure made at the default carries an asterisk, the same one on the pricing page. Set your own rate in Settings and the asterisk goes away.
A 200-document month
Say a shop receives 200 documents a month, customer POs and vendor invoices together, which is about ten a working day. 200 documents at ten minutes each is 2,000 minutes, or 33.3 hours. At $25 an hour that is $833* a month in keying time. Against $500 the month pays for itself 1.7 times over; 500 divided by 833 is 0.6 of a month, which the dashboard rounds up to 18 days. After the price, the shop is about $333* a month ahead, and it has 33 hours back.
The dashboard's own sample month, the one a new shop sees before its documents arrive, runs a little heavier: 240 documents, 40 hours, $1,000*. Same arithmetic, bigger month.
Where the ten minutes comes from
Not from STRYKE. SPS Commerce's case on Hello Bello puts about ten minutes on keying one order by hand. APQC's Cutting the Costs of Sales Order Processing (K03319), the fullest public benchmark, puts the total cost of handling one order that arrived by paper, fax, phone or email at $7 for the top performers, $12.60 at the median and $21 at the bottom, across 755 reporting companies. Ten minutes at $25 is $4.17, which sits under all three because it counts only the keying, not the chasing, the correction and the re-keying that the APQC figure wraps in. For a vendor invoice, Ardent Partners' 2025 figure is about $9.40 an invoice on average.
We quote these as published benchmarks, not as STRYKE's results. When a shop has its own numbers, the dashboard shows those instead.
The two cards on Home
A shop's Home page carries two value cards from the first day: hours saved and dollars saved. Both are counted from the documents STRYKE actually entered that month, at the minutes and the rate the shop has set, so they move as the month goes. A document STRYKE held for a person and the person confirmed still counts as entered; the person spent a click on it, not ten minutes. A document STRYKE could not read and a person keyed by hand does not count.
Where the hours go
Thirty-three hours a month is most of a working week. Shops put it in three places, from what we have seen. The person on the order desk goes back to quoting, which was the job they were hired for before the inbox took over. The owner stops being the backup for order entry on the days that person is out. And the acknowledgments go out the morning the PO lands, because nothing is waiting in a pile to be keyed first; buyers notice that one before anyone notices the hours.
What does not change is the review list. STRYKE holds a document when a price is off the quote, a part number is new, a date was pulled in, the arithmetic does not add up, or the same PO came in twice through two channels. A person clears each one with a click, and the answer becomes a rule for next time. On the 200-document month that is a few lines a day, not a second job. Data entry automation says what is read and what is checked before anything is written.
What it does not get back
Three honest limits. A promise STRYKE did not make is never automated: a pulled-in date, a moved price, a new part, new bank details on a vendor invoice all wait for a person. A document STRYKE cannot read with confidence waits too. And $500 is a flat price, so a shop under about fifty documents a month pays more per document than a shop at two hundred; the five-question plan tells you which you are before you decide.