Will Marshall - Bath House
Who is Bath House?
“We started the company 21 years ago, we all come from an art design background, from fine arts to textiles and photography and sculpture. We’re quite unusual as a British company because we manufacture all our products and design all the packaging. We do everything ourselves, so everything’s in our control, which is brilliant. It keeps us busy, and it’s quite a complicated business to run.”
Problems before Blue Alligator
“So, I came into the company when Blue Alligator was first being considered. I think what drove that was just the sheer amount of manual labour involved. Taking orders, processing orders, and putting them in our in-house ordering system. We use Sage primarily, and that was the sheer number of hours that were taking somebody and many people at key times of the year. Quite frankly, that was draining resources from other parts of the business because we needed to be hands-on deck.
So, to be able to automate that and make that process smoother and fulfil orders quicker for our customers was important and drove that process.“
How has the support team been?
“My goodness, I was flabbergasted, firstly dealing with Lewis and of course, Corey. Reece, who was developing the site for us, has been second to none; nothing is an issue. There seems to be a workaround for everything, and every business uses Sage differently. Reece was able to come up with a workaround for everything that I saw as a problem; it wasn’t a problem.“
Since adopting Blue Alligator
“SalesPresenter has saved us so much time. After a trade fair, for example, we just come back with hundreds of orders all on paper, all to hand, and put them into Sage. I was here every weekend just inputting orders into Sage because the phones were just so busy during the week. Taking orders over the phone once again onto paper and then having to input them into Sage. Now, with an iPad by your desk, somebody rings an order through, and we put it straight onto Blue Alligator. It’s there on Sage as soon as the uploads are done.
In terms of what it saved the team and the business, it’s hard to quantify; it’ll be nice to know how many hours, but it’s huge. It’s a matter of people sitting there for weeks on end, multiple people, particularly over the summer period, the labour-saving is colossal.”
