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Most articles on this subject stop at "buy a maintenance plan". This one walks through the real twelve months after handover with the hours and the money written out: how noisy the first month is, the four kinds of work that never stop, what a year of care actually costs, and the four honest ways of owning it. It also says plainly where we tell a client to buy less support than we would happily sell them.
Your update has said eighty percent for three months and you have no way to test whether that is true. This article gives you five checks you can run in an afternoon with no technical knowledge, the simple arithmetic that turns finished work into an honest launch date, the real split of effort hiding behind the screens, and the four levers left when you discover you are behind, including the point where stopping is the right answer.
Most clinic software is sold as a list of features, which tells you very little about whether it is worth the money. So instead of a feature list, we walk through one ordinary Tuesday in a clinic with four doctors and forty booked visits, from the day list at 07:50 to the shift close at 18:00, showing the minutes and the money each part gives back, and saying plainly where a small clinic should buy the cheap ready made product rather than build anything.
Most articles on this question quote one vendor's licence price and stop there. This one builds the whole bill a clinic actually signs: the software line, the migration, the training, the hardware on the desks, and the running costs that arrive every year after go live. It also runs the five year arithmetic for renting against owning at eight users and at forty, and says honestly where a custom build stops paying for itself.
Most guides to this decision hand you a polite checklist and leave you no wiser when you are actually sitting across the table. This one does the opposite. Here are the exact questions to ask a web design company, the answers that should make you pause, the arithmetic behind a US$2,000 quote against a US$12,000 one, the timeline you can hold anyone to, and an honest account of when the cheapest option is the right one.
Most articles on this subject list a few vague symptoms and then sell you a build. This one hands you the arithmetic instead: what your spreadsheet really costs per week in hours and money, the row counts and editor numbers where a file genuinely stops coping, a three year comparison you can check on a calculator, and the honest conditions under which we tell a client to keep the sheet and spend the money somewhere better.
