We started out with a dream of just providing transport to small craft breweries. There was no provider in our industry for the smaller, little guy. It was only, you know, I only wanna see you if you've got 50 palette loads and a million consignments a week. I think, for us, we just wanna become the best in the industry.
So, before we had CartonCloud, I was doing everything manually. All day long, it was all night long. It was on the weekends. I couldn't go out for dinner. I couldn't go out with friends. I couldn't watch TV because I would be sitting at the desk, filing things, routing things. I literally worked one night til 1:00 a.m. doing it. I just said, "I can't keep doing this." I said, "We have to find a solution." One of our customers said to me, "Oh, you should check out CartonCloud. "We use it for S.A. "It's a really good program."
So then we got on board with using it. And it's just been a really amazing journey. I would say absolutely no doubt CartonCloud is the absolute best system. Being able to finish like a normal person at 5:00. We've done all the allocating. We've printed all the paperwork for the next day. It's just, you can't really put a price on it. Until you lose that part of your life, and then suddenly get it back, you really don't appreciate just being able to go out for dinner and not have to think, I have to go home because I have to go home and do all the allocating and filing of paperwork.
It saves on costs. It saves on having to employ more staff. Because if I didn't have this program, I would have to have probably two admin people with me because there's no way that I'd be able to do the volume of work that we do with the program. It also really would prevent our business from being able to grow. Like, Andy would ring in a sale, or the customer might wanna join us and I'd say, "No, I can't, please I can't take any more work." Whereas now, I'm like, "Sure!" I don't even notice.
The kids, they're much happier because I'm much more present so it's really really changed our lives. It's made us much happier. My husband comes home and everyone's finished work for the day. It's given us the ability to get as big as we possibly can. For me, it's a no-brainer.