Holdbart AS have time on their side with Timegrip Standard
Holdbart is a Norwegian company founded in July 2015. The founders have backgrounds and professional experience in Norwegian kiosk and grocery retail.
The idea behind the company originated from the realization that enormous amounts of groceries are wasted in Norway—goods that never reach the stores. Since its modest beginning in 2015, Holdbart now operates eight physical outlets alongside an online store.
Importers, manufacturers, and wholesalers lose or destroy 77,471 tons of high-quality products every year. These goods can now be sold through Holdbart.no instead of being destroyed. This benefits the environment, suppliers, and customers’ wallets.
In addition to store operations, Holdbart manages warehouse and logistics activities as well as an online store, making the overall staffing requirements quite complex. Therefore, we needed a quick and flexible staffing solution with high precision for our scheduling needs.
Employee-Friendly staffing and communication
With full store operations across multiple departments, extensive goods reception, and online shopping, we’ve had our hands full planning schedules and communicating with all employees during busy periods.
Now, everything flows seamlessly between department managers and our employees through the Timegrip app. Everyone is part of the dialogue, knows what is happening, and we avoid misunderstandings and delays. We now have a single communication channel for updates, requests, notifications, and announcements.
All our employees are involved in operations on a completely different level and can request shift swaps, holidays, and days off directly from the app. The fact that department managers can also approve all employee requests directly in the app makes us much more efficient in our daily operations.
"Simply put, we are extremely satisfied with Timegrip as a service and supplier. As a commercial professional, it’s fantastic when IT just works," says Thor Johansen, Founder of Holdbart.
Automated scheduling saves time in a busy workday
Having schedules automatically calculated against budgets and forecasts is one thing, but with simple time tracking in the app for all employees, we also gain complete control over costs in real time compared to our plans.
The automatic calculation of wages, allowances, and overtime saves significant time and provides higher accuracy in the data we import directly from Timegrip into our payroll system.
Timegrip Standard
At Holdbart, we chose the Timegrip Standard solution, which is more than sufficient for our needs. The management team works quickly and efficiently with full control, while our employees are pleased with the system.
"With the pace at which Timegrip rolls out new features and improvements, we couldn’t wish for other or additional functionalities."
Simply put, we are extremely satisfied with Timegrip as a service and supplier. As a commercial professional, it’s fantastic when IT just works.
– Thor Johansen, Founder of Holdbart
