How Phished saves €100,000 per year using Bringme's digital reception

Frederik Van de Meulebroucke is COO at Phished, a cybersecurity scale-up with an annual growth of 350%. To ensure visitors receive a professional welcome — including after office hours — while reducing costs at the same time, he enlisted Bringme’s digital reception.

Thanks to Bringme’s digital reception, Frederik is now able to:

  • save EUR 100,000 per year in reception costs
  • invest another EUR 500,000 over five years in training and customer service
  • ensure customers and visitors receive a professional welcome 24/7

Customers and job applicants don't stop coming after 5 pm

Achieving strong growth as a start-up requires a significant amount of labour — and a lot of visitors are likely to come and go too. In the past, Phished used one full-time and one part-time receptionist to deal with this flow of visitors. "But these people need time off every now and then, or might call in sick. On top of that, they only worked for 38 hours a week, while we receive visitors outside of regular office hours too," Frederik explains.

Fully automated reception: more professional and more innovative

To ensure visitors can be welcomed 24/7 while saving money at the same time, Phished uses Bringme’s digital reception, or in other words: a fully automated reception system. The system is just as professional, and a whole lot more innovative. The digital reception can handle the entire range of tasks normally carried out by traditional receptionists and more.

90% of reception tasks automated

The digital reception can handle the workload of one and a half receptionists. "An exception might pop up every now and then, such as signing for registered post, but in those cases, the Desk directly notifies the recipient."

Fully automated vs. staffed reception: a difference of ± EUR 90,000

The main difference is not in the tasks the system can perform, but in the cost. On average, a traditional reception with 1.5 FTE, plus overheads, will cost a business around EUR 115,000. A digital reception, on the other hand, costs just EUR 15,000.

"This translates into a saving of half a million euros over five years — money I can instead invest in training our employees and improving our customer service.

We use a digital access control system that autonomously shows visitors and delivery drivers the way. The Bringme Desk keeps our workplace safe, and all our deliveries and parcels are handled by the Bringme Box."

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