The reality check
You already have a technology budget. You just cannot see all of it.
Tick what you pay for. The software total is the part you already know about — the other two numbers are the ones that usually cause the pause.
What are you paying for?
80 products across 23 categories. Tick what applies, then correct any price that is wrong for you.
Typical published list prices in CAD, checked September 2026. Yours will differ — every figure is editable.
Website / CMS
About 1.5 hours a month of your time — content edits, plugin updates, fixing what an update broke
Hosting
About 0.5 hours a month of your time — renewals, support tickets, working out why the site is slow
Domain & DNS
About 0.25 hours a month of your time — renewals, transfers, dns changes you have to look up each time
Business email
About 0.75 hours a month of your time — adding people, password resets, chasing mail that went to spam
Business phone
About 0.5 hours a month of your time — changing greetings, routing, holiday hours
CRM
About 2 hours a month of your time — keeping records current, chasing what was never entered
Booking & scheduling
About 0.5 hours a month of your time — calendar conflicts, rescheduling by phone
Email marketing
About 2.5 hours a month of your time — writing, building, sending, cleaning the list
Social management
About 3 hours a month of your time — creating posts, scheduling, replying to comments
SEO tools
About 1.5 hours a month of your time — checking rankings, exporting reports nobody reads
Reviews & reputation
About 1 hour a month of your time — asking for reviews, replying to them
Automation
About 1 hour a month of your time — building and repairing the connections between tools
AI tools
About 1 hour a month of your time — learning each one, working out what is safe to paste in
Forms & surveys
About 0.5 hours a month of your time — building forms, moving submissions into somewhere useful
Design
About 2 hours a month of your time — making graphics that look roughly on-brand
Accounting & invoicing
About 3 hours a month of your time — reconciling, chasing invoices, categorising expenses
E-signature
About 0.25 hours a month of your time — preparing documents, chasing signatures
File storage
About 0.5 hours a month of your time — finding files, fixing sharing permissions
Customer support desk
About 1.5 hours a month of your time — answering the same questions repeatedly
Analytics
About 1 hour a month of your time — opening dashboards, not being sure what they mean
Project management
About 1.5 hours a month of your time — keeping boards current that people stop looking at
IT support
About 2 hours a month of your time — describing the problem, waiting, testing the fix
Web developer
About 2 hours a month of your time — writing briefs, reviewing work, following up on changes
The point of this page
The invoices are the cheap part.
Most owners can tell you roughly what their software costs. Almost nobody can tell you what the coordination costs — the evening spent working out why email stopped, the afternoon moving data between two systems that should talk to each other, the third support conversation about something that was never anyone's job.
That work does not appear on a statement, so it never gets compared against anything. It is usually the largest number on this page.
Fair questions
About the numbers on this page.
Are these prices accurate?
They are typical published list prices for small-business tiers, checked in September 2026. Vendors change pricing constantly, and yours will differ depending on tier, region and when you signed. That is exactly why every figure here is editable — put your real numbers in and the total becomes worth something.
Where do the hour estimates come from?
They are estimates of owner and staff time per tool per month — learning it, configuring it, fixing it, chasing support, and moving data between it and something else. They are deliberately conservative. Most people who count properly find the real figure higher.
Why does TecZila not show a price here?
Because a number produced by a form would be a guess, and a guess attached to a price becomes a negotiation about the guess. We look at what you actually have first, then price the actual work. You always get the price in writing before anything starts.
Is the answer always "buy fewer tools"?
No. Sometimes the tools are right and the problem is that nothing connects them. Sometimes you are missing one. Occasionally the honest answer is that your setup is fine and you should spend the money elsewhere — we have said that before and will again.