Costs and returns
Budget Analysis Tool
What HTI certification costs a business, and what it returns. Return on investment can exceed 20% due to pet owner demand for healthy animals!
Business benefits
What you get back
Increased customer satisfaction
Fewer financial losses due to sick animals
Increased revenues due to higher market value of certified healthy animals
Reduced expenses with health checks if sourcing animals from other HTI businesses
Reduced likelihood of pathogen spillover from captivity to the environment, helping conserve biodiversity
2. Healthy Trade Supplies
- Swabs for pathogen testing = $15 per 100 swabs
- Plastic bags for shipping swabs = $20 per 100 habitats
- Disposable nitrile gloves = $7 per box of 100
- Disinfectant = Chlorhexidine gluconate (2%, 1 gal) = $15
- Shipping cost of swabs (envelope or box + postage) to diagnostic lab = $20
3. Diagnostic Lab Processing Costs
- Initial testing to become member = 50% of habitats
- Members (2X per year) = 20% of habitats
- Shipments (new acquisitions) = 50% of animals per shipment up to 120 animals (or 60 swabs). For testing, pools of 3 swabs are permitted, thus the maximum number of tests required per shipment is 20 pooled swabs for shipments with 120 or more animals.
4. Possible Additional Costs
- Establishing quarantine area
- Treatment or euthanasia of sick animals
- Some additional personnel time
See it all added up
Our example budget totals the costs for a business with 100 habitats and $100,000 per year in revenue.