Laundry Equipment ROI Calculator

Buying commercial laundry equipment — a washer-extractor, a dryer, a folder — is a capital decision, and this calculator reduces it to the two numbers that actually matter: how long until the machine pays for itself, and what it returns after that. Monthly profit is simply revenue the machine generates minus its monthly utilities and maintenance costs; payback period is the equipment cost divided by that monthly profit, rounded up to a whole month, since you don't recover a partial month's worth of investment mid-cycle. Lifetime profit takes annual profit (monthly profit times 12), multiplies it by the equipment's expected useful life in years, and subtracts the original equipment cost — that's the net dollar return over the machine's full working life, and total ROI expresses that lifetime profit as a percentage of the original investment. Annual ROI simply divides the total ROI by useful-life years for a rough annualized comparison figure, which is a straight-line simplification rather than a true compounded or discounted return.

What this calculator deliberately leaves out matters for how you read the result: there's no discounting for the time value of money, no financing cost if the equipment is loan-purchased, and no allowance for cash flow if maintenance costs rise as the machine ages rather than staying flat as assumed here. It also treats monthly revenue, utilities, and maintenance as constants across the entire useful life, when in practice utility rates typically climb and maintenance costs tend to increase as equipment approaches end of life. Use it to compare candidate machines or vendors against each other on a like-for-like basis rather than treating the lifetime profit figure as a guaranteed outcome.