Bar Klow switched from Personalkollen – and cut its subscription cost by more than 70%

Bar Klow in Stockholm wanted a workforce system that suited a smaller business. When they switched from Personalkollen to Simflexity, they got a simpler way of working, a smooth onboarding and a significantly lower cost.

• Over 70% – Lower subscription cost per employee at the switch
• Painless – Onboarding, according to Chris
• 100% – Would recommend Simflexity

”You're incredibly fast, and it's fun to be part of the development. A couple of incidents, but we solved them quickly together.”

Why pay for features you don't use?

Chris Campbell is a co-owner of Bar Klow and has experience of several different workforce systems.

He knows what he needs to make everyday operations work.

Bar Klow previously used Personalkollen. But Chris felt the system was more extensive than their business needed.

At the same time, the cost was high.

Bar Klow paid around SEK 230 per employee per month. When they switched to Simflexity, they got an introductory price of SEK 49 per employee per month.

That meant the subscription cost per employee dropped by more than 70 percent at the switch.

For Chris, the combination was decisive.

A significantly lower price and a leaner system with the features Bar Klow actually uses.

Chris handled the entire onboarding himself

Switching workforce systems can mean a lot of work.

Staff need to be registered, schedules need to be created and everyone has to get started with a new way of working.

But at Bar Klow it went smoothly.

Chris did the entire onboarding himself. He registered the business, added the staff and got started with the features.

When we asked how he experienced the start, the answer was short:

“Painless onboarding.”

Today, Bar Klow uses Simflexity for the entire staff flow.

They register new employees, create schedules and offer open team shifts that staff can apply for themselves.

Employees clock in and out. Timesheets are reviewed and approved. Then payroll is handled.

All in one system.

A customer who knows what he wants

Chris has worked with several workforce systems over the years.

It shows when we discuss features.

He has clear requirements, concrete requests and doesn't hesitate to say when something could be better.

For us at Simflexity, that has been valuable.

One example is the option to choose a custom percentage tax deduction instead of a tax table.

This can be needed when an employee has an adjustment decision from the Tax Agency or wants to pay extra tax.

Chris asked for the feature.

We took the request on board, developed the solution and delivered it.

Other features have also improved through the dialogue with Chris and the staff at Bar Klow.

That is an important part of how we develop Simflexity: listening to the people who use the system in their everyday work.

Fast help without long phone queues

Not everything has been perfect from the start.

A few smaller features have been missing. And a couple of incidents have occurred during the collaboration.

But for Chris, what matters is how problems are handled.

He appreciates being able to contact us directly, without sitting in long phone queues to customer service.

When something needs solving, we can discuss it together and quickly move forward.

For us, that confirms something we think is important.

A close relationship with our customers and a short path from request to improvement.

Would Chris recommend Simflexity?

When we ask Chris whether he would recommend Simflexity, the answer comes immediately.

100 percent.

Above all, he highlights the price, the simplicity and the personal support.

Bar Klow has got the features it needs to manage staff, scheduling, time reporting and payroll – at a significantly lower subscription cost.

At the same time, they have had the chance to influence how the system develops.

For us at Simflexity, the collaboration with Bar Klow shows how much better a product can become when we build it together with our customers.

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