What is included
- Login and roles for the team (office, warehouse, management)
- Orders, production and inventory in one place
- A live dashboard, no more calling around for status
- Your whole workflow, from order to delivery
- Customer and contact register
- One integration (accounting, payment or webshop)
- We migrate all the data from your current Excel
- Hosting, backup, SSL and setup
- We train the team
Then: Saga Drift, 4 000 kr/mo
This is peace of mind, not hosting: 99.5% uptime, a two-hour response time in working hours, daily backup, monitoring, and a direct line to us when something happens.
Terms
- You pay in step with delivery: 40% at kickoff, 60% when the system goes live, with a payment plan available if you need it.
- Guarantee: the system goes live and works as specified, or you do not pay the final instalment.
- Live in about 6 weeks, not 6 months.
Summary: what a system costs, and what Excel costs
No two systems are the same, so there is no sticker price. You get one fixed number on a free discovery call, after we map what the spreadsheet is costing you.
Short answer
The standard Saga operations system is 180 000 kr, a fixed price set up front, plus Saga Drift at 4 000 kr per month for hosting, support and improvements. That covers the full base system that takes orders, production and inventory out of Excel. Larger scope is quoted up front as one number, never hourly surprises. Most teams lose far more to spreadsheets each year than the system costs once.
What determines the price of a system?
A few things move the number:
See the main factors
- Scope: how much of the operation the system covers, orders only, or orders plus production, inventory and delivery.
- Integrations: each connection to accounting, payment, webshop or a credit-check API adds work, with auth, error handling and reconciliation.
- Migration: how much messy spreadsheet history has to come into the system cleanly.
- Add-ons: a customer portal, a mobile field app, advanced reporting, inventory or multi-location each add scope.
- Reliability: uptime, roles, data integrity and the ugly edge cases, the parts that matter when the business runs on it.
Calculator: what is Excel costing you?
A quick estimate of what running operations on spreadsheets costs you every year, in lost time and orders that slip. This is guidance, not an exact figure. Turn on JavaScript for the live calculator, or use the examples below.
| Example team | Lost time / year | Slipped orders / year | Excel costs you |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 h/week, 1 order/mo | ~208 000 | ~60 000 | ~268 000 |
| 15 h/week, 1 order/mo | ~312 000 | ~60 000 | ~372 000 |
| 25 h/week, 3 orders/mo | ~520 000 | ~180 000 | ~700 000 |
Assumes ~400 kr/hour and ~5 000 kr per slipped order. Most operations systems pay for themselves well inside a year at these numbers.
Excel vs a quick one-off vs a real system
Honest take: Excel and a quick prototype both have their place when you are testing an idea. The difference shows up the day the business actually runs on it.
| Category | Excel | ChatGPT one-off | Saga system |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cost to start | Low | Low | 180 000 kr, fixed price |
| Breaks when | You grow | It hits production | Built not to |
| Who maintains it | One person | No one | Saga |
| Lives on | Fragile | No | For years |
| Right for | Testing an idea | A quick demo | Running a business |
FAQ about operations system pricing
What does an operations system cost?
The standard system is 180 000 kr, a fixed price set up front, plus Saga Drift at 4 000 kr per month for hosting, support and improvements. Most teams lose far more to Excel each year than the system costs once.
Is it always 180 000 kr?
180 000 kr is the standard system, the base that takes orders, production and inventory out of Excel. Larger scope, such as extra integrations, a mobile field app or multiple locations, is quoted up front as one fixed number. Never hourly rates or surprises halfway through.
How is this different from a dashboard built with ChatGPT?
The pretty dashboard is the easy 10 percent. The value is the invisible 90: modelling your real orders, stock and credit rules, reliable integrations, uptime and backups, the messy edge cases, and a real codebase that can be maintained for years rather than a one-off that breaks in production.
Why not just keep using Excel?
Excel works until it doesn't: orders fall between the cracks, two people overwrite each other, there is no real-time overview, and the whole thing depends on one person who knows how it is wired. A system removes the bottleneck and lets you grow without the chaos growing with you.
How long does it take?
Live in about six weeks, not six months. You see progress every week through clear milestones, and we migrate your data and train your team so the switch is low effort for you.
What about hosting and support after launch?
A flat monthly fee covers hosting, daily backups, monitoring, a 99.5% uptime target, a two-hour response time in working hours, and ongoing improvements. You have a direct line to the people who built it.
Do you migrate our existing Excel data?
Yes. Getting years of spreadsheet data into the system cleanly is part of the build, not an afterthought. It is one of the harder parts and one of the most important.