Overheads
Count the logins. Then count what they cost you.
Most businesses cannot say what they spend on software without going through the card statement. The subscriptions are only the visible half — the rest is paid in hours, in duplicated data and in decisions made late. This page is a way to work out your own number, not ours.
The licence is the cheap part.
A tool you pay for monthly announces its price. The costs that do not announce themselves are the ones that add up: the retyping, the reconciling, the person who is the only one who understands the sheet, and the integration bill that arrives as an outage.
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The line you can see
Add up every business subscription you renew: the CRM, the accounts package, the scheduler, the file store, the e-signature, the forms tool, the phone system, the chat tool, the automation connector. Multiply by the seats. That is the number most people quote.
- Per-seat pricing that grows every time you hire
- Tools bought for one person that nobody has cancelled
- Annual plans renewing for features you stopped using
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The line you cannot
Now price the work that only exists because the systems are separate. An hour a week spent moving information between two tools is roughly six working days a year, per person doing it. Use your own wage figures — ours would be a guess.
- Time spent retyping the same record twice
- Month-end assembled by hand from several exports
- Chasing done by a person because no system owns the rule
- Work redone because two copies disagreed
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The line that is hardest to see
Some of the cost is decisions. If the cash position takes a day to assemble, it gets looked at monthly rather than weekly, and the questions that would have been asked in between simply are not. That does not appear on any invoice.
- Slow answers become unasked questions
- Problems found at month end instead of on the day
- Reporting that describes the past rather than the week ahead
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What consolidating actually changes
One system, one per-user price, and the modules you need switched on rather than bought. The seam work does not get faster — it stops existing, because there is no second place for the information to go.
- One bill, one renewal, one vendor to call
- Pricing per user for the whole Hub, not per module
- Adding a module does not change what you pay
The scale of it
What ends up in one place
47 modules across 10 parts of a business — sharing one record, one permission model and one assistant.
- A bespoke CRM build
- Accounting software
- Airtable / Notion databases
- Analyst time
- Answering services
- Bookkeeping software
- Business intelligence seats
- Business-card scanners
- CAD / floor-plan tools
- Calendly / Acuity
- Call centre software
- Call recording add-ons
One system
N Six Hub
One login, one permission model, one bill, one record of a customer. The modules are not connected to each other — they read and write the same data, so there is nothing between them to keep in step.
The other side of it
Be fair to the alternative
A straight comparison has to include what moving costs and what you give up.
- Migration takes real hours, even with import doing the heavy lifting.
- A specialist tool you love may be better at its one job than our module is.
- Running both in parallel for a few weeks is sensible, and means paying twice briefly.
- If your stack genuinely is two tools and they genuinely do talk, consolidating may not be worth it. We would rather say so now.
We put this on the page because a pitch without a cost is not an argument, it is an advert. If any of the above is a dealbreaker for your business, it is better that you know now than in month three.
Questions
Asked and answered
Will you tell me what I would save?+
Not without your figures, because any number we made up would be marketing. Bring your subscription list to a call and we will go through it line by line and say which lines this replaces and which it does not.
Is it cheaper than what we run now?+
For most businesses running five or more tools, yes on licences alone. For a business running two, the case is about the time between them rather than the price.
Do we pay per module?+
No. Pricing is per user for the Hub. Switching a module on adds capability, not cost.
What about the cost of getting it wrong?+
Export is unrestricted and there is a full API, so leaving is possible and we would rather you knew that before you started than after.
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The same case, from another angle
Bring your subscription list. We will go through it honestly.
A short call, your actual renewals, and a straight answer on which of them this replaces and which it does not.