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Sunshine Joinery
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20% Less Time,$20k/yr Admin Saving

Sunshine Joinery

At a glance

The wins for Sunshine Joinery

20%
Less time on jobs
$20k/yr
Admin time savings
5 hrs/wk
Rekeying eliminated

Napier joinery ran manual time sheets in parallel with Empower for a month — the accuracy gap shocked them. 20% less time on jobs, five hours a week of admin gone.

The parallel-run reveal

Rick Martin, Director — "When we implemented Empower for a month we ran manual time sheets in parallel with Empower to be genuinely shocked as to how vastly inaccurate manual time sheets were."

Too little, too late, too expensive

"Manual time sheets is information too little, too late, too inaccurate and too expensive to produce. Manual time sheets did not make any of our staff time aware, time transparent or time focused."

5 hours a week of admin, gone

"Empower saves us 5 hours per week in administration time rekeying manual time sheets to job cost — which at $80/hour labour cost saves us $20,000 per year." Napier joinery, running on live data rather than end-of-week paperwork.

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20–40%
Productivity increase

Faster jobs, greater workshop output — with the same overheads.

$5–$15k
Saved per month

Stop losing money to manual tracking and hidden inefficiencies.

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