How OpenFiskal Helps Merchants Save Time and Costs
Summary
Based on realistic assumptions and experience, merchants using OpenFiskal save an average of 40 hours and approximately €1,000 per year in operational workload, accounting fees, and compliance risk mitigation.
In addition, OpenFiskal significantly reduces the manual effort required to archive daily cash register summaries.
Calculation Basis
1. Time Savings Through Fiscalization and Reporting Automation
Manual processes without OpenFiskal: approximately 10 minutes of daily effort (for tasks like creating Z-reports, correcting errors, and maintaining documentation).
With OpenFiskal: average of 2 minutes of daily effort.
Time saved per day: 8 minutes.
Active days per year: approximately 300 days (based on 5–6 operational days per week).
Annual time savings: 8 minutes × 300 days = 2,400 minutes = 40 hours.
2. Cost Savings Through Reduced Accounting Effort and Risk Mitigation
Automation and complete reporting with OpenFiskal reduces accounting work by about 2 hours per year.
Average hourly rate for accountants: €250.
Savings: 2 hours × €250 = €500.
In addition, merchants avoid potential penalties for incorrect fiscalization.
Conservatively estimated savings: €500.
Total annual financial savings:
€500 (accounting) + €500 (risk mitigation) = €1,000.
3. Additional Efficiency: Z-Report PDF Export (OpenFiskal Z-Receipt)
Shopify POS does not offer a traditional Z-report export. Merchants often need to screenshot or scan the cash register overview manually, then create PDFs and archive them.
OpenFiskal automatically generates a compliant Z-receipt as a ready-to-download PDF – no manual steps required.
This eliminates daily manual archiving efforts (estimated at 5 minutes per day) and improves documentation security.
Note: The additional time savings from simplified archiving are not included in the above 40-hour calculation but further enhance daily efficiency.
Important Note:
Actual savings may vary depending on business size, number of POS locations, and usage intensity.
All estimates are based on conservative assumptions and real-world experience supporting Shopify POS merchants.
We are happy to provide further details or individual calculations upon request.
