Work out next year's payroll or HR software bill from your current annual cost, the renewal uplift, extra employees at the new price and new add-on charges.
Enter what you pay now for a year, the percentage increase, the annual price of each employee you expect to add and any other new annual charges. The tool calculates: increase = current subscription × percentage + price per added employee × employees added, and renewal-year total = current subscription + increase + other new charges.
Worked example (illustrative): 30 employees at $25 per employee a month cost $9,000 a year. The renewal notice proposes an 8% uplift: $9,000 × 8% = $720. Five more employees at the new price of $27 a month cost $324 each a year, so $1,620. A new rostering add-on adds $600 a year. Increase = $720 + $1,620 = $2,340. Renewal-year total = $9,000 + $2,340 + $600 = $11,940, about 33% more than this year although the headline uplift was 8%.
Other uses of the same arithmetic: enter a USD-priced subscription already converted to AUD and the percentage by which the Australian dollar has weakened, or enter a GST-exclusive price with 10% to see the GST-inclusive amount (set added employees and other charges to zero). For several effects at once, run the tool in steps: uplift first, then exchange rate, then GST.
Limits: one renewal at a time. For a multi-year view, run it again with the new total as the current subscription, or read the renewal price increase guide. All figures are illustrative.
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