Downtime Cost Calculator
Every Hour Your Systems Are Down,
You're Losing Real Money.
Most business owners underestimate what IT downtime actually costs — because the damage goes beyond lost sales. Use this calculator to see the full picture: lost revenue, employee idle time, recovery costs, and reputational damage.
Sound Familiar?
You Know Downtime Hurts. But Do You Know the Real Number?
Most business owners have a gut feeling that IT downtime is expensive — but they've never sat down and calculated the full damage. When you add it all up, the number is almost always worse than expected.
Lost Revenue Is Only Part of It
When your systems go down, you can't take orders, process shipments, or invoice customers. But the revenue you don't collect is just the first number — not the whole story.
Your Team Is on the Clock — Whether or Not They're Working
Every employee that's sitting idle during an outage is still being paid. For a 25-person team, even a 4-hour outage can cost $3,500 or more in payroll you'll never recover.
Emergency IT Recovery Is Never Cheap
Break-fix IT charges emergency rates. If the problem requires vendor support, hardware replacement, or data recovery — the bill starts at hundreds and routinely runs into thousands.
Your Trusted Partner
We've Seen What Downtime Really Costs Wisconsin Businesses.
ManagePoint has helped businesses recover from server failures, ransomware attacks, and infrastructure outages — and we've seen firsthand how quickly the numbers add up. A manufacturing company loses production. A logistics firm misses delivery windows. A professional services firm loses billable hours they can't get back. The businesses that weather these events fastest are the ones who had proactive IT management before the incident — not after. We built ManagePoint to help Wisconsin businesses stay on the right side of that line.
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The Numbers Don't Lie. Downtime Is a Business Crisis.
These aren't worst-case scenarios. These are averages across businesses the same size as yours.
$5,600
Average cost per minute of downtime for SMBs
Source: Gartner
21 days
Average downtime after a ransomware attack
Source: Statista
60%
Small businesses close within 6 months of a major data loss
Source: University of Texas
140 hrs
Average annual downtime per business without managed IT
Source: Aberdeen Group
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Free IT Assessment
We audit your current infrastructure — servers, backup, monitoring, and response procedures — and show you exactly where your downtime risk is highest. No cost, no obligation.
We Fix the Gaps
ManagePoint deploys proactive monitoring, tested backup, and a documented recovery plan — so the next time something tries to take you down, you have a team and a plan already in place.
You Stay Up. We Watch.
24/7 monitoring means issues get caught and corrected before they become outages. When something does happen, our team responds — not just escalates a ticket.
The Cost of Waiting
Downtime Doesn't Just Cost Money. It Costs Relationships, Reputation, and Sometimes the Business.
- Your best customers remember the outages. One bad experience during a critical order window, and they start shopping your competitors — quietly, before you even know you lost them.
- Your employees lose trust in the tools — and the leadership. Repeated downtime erodes morale, slows hiring, and accelerates turnover in a tight labor market where IT frustration is a real reason people leave.
- Cyber insurance requires proof of controls. After a breach, if you can't demonstrate you had reasonable protections in place, your insurer will deny the claim — leaving you with the full bill.
- Compliance violations can follow an outage. If you're in manufacturing with CMMC, or healthcare with HIPAA, a data-loss incident triggers mandatory reporting — and potentially significant fines.
Imagine This Instead
What Your Business Looks Like When IT Is Always On
ManagePoint clients don't think about downtime anymore — because we catch problems before they become outages. Here's what that feels like:
Monday Morning Is Uneventful
Phishing quarantined, malicious sites blocked, ransomware detected at the behavior level — before impact.
Your Downtime Number Goes to Near Zero
CMMC, HIPAA, or SOC 2 — the reports, policies, and evidence trail auditors require. No scrambling.
When Something Does Happen, It's Over Fast
You can prove your controls. If something happens, your policy pays — because you have the documentation.
Your Emergency IT Budget Goes Away
Predictable monthly managed IT replaces unpredictable break-fix bills. No more $5,000 surprise invoices after an outage. No more emergency rates.
Your Customers Never Know There Was a Problem
Fast recovery and redundant systems mean customers experience seamless service. Your reliability becomes a competitive advantage, not an apology.
You Stop Worrying About IT
You have a team watching 24/7, tested backups, and a documented recovery plan. You can actually focus on your business — not IT emergencies.
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Your Calculator Number Doesn't Have to Stay That High.
Get a free IT assessment and see exactly where your biggest downtime risks are — and what it would take to eliminate them.