ROI calculator
Don't hire for more, handle it
Pick a role, add your headcount, and see the capacity a Handler unlocks — and what it costs to get it. One Handler serves several people, which is where the number stops looking like a per-seat tool.
Where the line sits
What a Handler owns for your Vendor Manager
7 of 13 responsibilities owned by the Handler · 6 that stay with your team.
Handle-able7
- Handle-able: Supplier onboarding data entryCollecting supplier details, bank information, product data and compliance documents and entering them into the platform follows a defined checklist. A Handler owns it end to end, taking onboarding from days to hours.
- Handle-able: Product listing creation and updatesTurning supplier spreadsheets, PDFs and images into the marketplace's own taxonomy and pushing listings via API or admin is structured and repeatable — a Handler does it at catalogue scale.
- Handle-able: Catalogue QA and nightly auditsChecking pages for broken images, missing attributes, wrong pricing and SEO gaps is pattern matching. A Handler audits the whole catalogue overnight — a check that is never economical by hand.
- Handle-able: Purchase order coordinationRaising POs against confirmed stock, tracking open orders against supplier SLAs and sending templated follow-ups for overdue orders follows defined rules a Handler can run unsupervised.
- Handle-able: Invoice processing, including split invoicesMatching invoices to POs, handling partial deliveries and split invoices and flagging discrepancies for review is structured reconciliation a Handler processes as invoices arrive.
Stays human6
- Stays human: Supplier relationship strategyDeciding which suppliers to prioritise, negotiate with or offboard takes commercial judgment, relationships and a long view.
- Stays human: Contract and terms negotiationNegotiating pricing, exclusivity, returns and trading terms needs human authority, trust and negotiation skill.
- Stays human: Escalation and dispute resolutionA disputed invoice, a missed critical delivery or a product recall needs judgment and a decision made fast by someone accountable.
- Stays human: New category and range strategySpotting catalogue gaps, recruiting suppliers and choosing which categories to expand takes market knowledge and creative thinking.
- Stays human: Compliance and legal reviewConfirming products meet regulatory, safety and marketplace requirements is human expertise carrying human accountability.
AUD, including on-costs if you want the full picture.
The bit that changes everything
Count everyone doing this work, including part-timers and the person who picks it up when someone is on leave. One Handler serves several of them — a per-seat tool charges for each.
Enter how many people do this job to see your saving. Decimals are fine — 2.5 if someone splits their week.
Salary benchmarks from SEEK and Payscale Australia (AUD). Every number is yours to adjust.
What you get back
Tell us how many people do this job and we will put a number on it.
Grounded in real deployments
The Handlers behind these numbers
The Vendor Manager breakdown is reverse-engineered from work Handlers are already doing.
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Three questions — the last one is your email. We read them against your team and send back what a Handler would take on, and what it would be worth.
- Written back in 1–2 business days.
- Read and answered by the Handle team.
- Free, with nothing to install and no call required.
Tell us what you're up against and we'll take it from there.
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