Case study · The Spinners, Darwen, Lancashire

Four subscriptions became one. The Spinners now saves £5,220 a year.

The pub was paying £495 a month across separate tools for rotas and HR, table bookings, CRM and accountancy. PubSuite now runs all of it for £59.99 a month.

Saved every month
£435.01
Saved every year
£5,220.12
Lower software bill
88%

Monthly software cost, before and after

Bar lengths are to scale. The whole of PubSuite costs less than the pub used to pay for bookings alone.

Before: four separate tools
£495.00
Accountancy and VAT £200
Bookings £150
Rota and HR £100
CRM £45
After: PubSuite
£59.99

What PubSuite replaced

Staff scheduling and HR
Now: PubSuite rotas, clock-in and HR
£100.00
Table bookings
Now: PubSuite bookings
£150.00
CRM tools
Now: PubSuite guest marketing
£45.00
Accountancy and VAT returns
Now: PubSuite accounts with HMRC-compliant VAT returns
£200.00
Monthly total before
£495.00
PubSuite, everything included
£59.99

How the saving adds up over a year

£435.01 kept in the business each month, running total by month.

£5,220
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Month
After 3 months: £1,305
After 6 months: £2,610
After 12 months: £5,220

More than a like-for-like swap

The same £59.99 also covers jobs the old tools never did.

Stock

Stock from invoice photos

Take a picture of a supplier invoice and it goes straight into stock-taking and inventory.

Pricing

Pricing kept under control

Daily sales come in through the pub’s POS, so costs and selling prices sit side by side.

VAT

VAT returns built in

The accountancy tool prepares the pub’s VAT returns and is HMRC compliant.

One system for your pub. £59.99 a month per site.

Built in a working pub, for working pubs.

Figures are The Spinners’ own monthly costs before and after moving to PubSuite. Before: £100 + £150 + £45 + £200 = £495. After: £59.99. Saving: £435.01 a month, £5,220.12 a year.

PubSuite
A product of Darwen Pub Co Ltd (company no. 16420301)
253 Bolton Road, Darwen, England, BB3 2PG