Midgaard Event streamlined payroll for 80-person team

Challenge

Midgaard Event, an event bureau founded in 2000 that grew from a part-time hobby to a full-time business, faced significant challenges with payroll management. When Kristian Belling Worm first needed to process salaries for his initial employees, he felt overwhelmed. The company has approximately 80 employees, but only a small portion receive a fixed monthly salary. Most employees work part-time with varying hours, meaning payroll needed to be processed for approximately half of the workforce each month. The complexity of managing variable work hours and the need for a simple, affordable payroll solution was critical to the business.

"Danløn was the cheapest payroll system, and it suited my needs well. It's quite straightforward to do what you need to do and then send the payslip off." - Kristian Belling Worm, Director, Midgaard Event

"I have many part-time employees, and it's approximately half of them I process payroll for each month. That's why I'm really pleased with the feature in the system where I can mark employees as either active or inactive." - Kristian Belling Worm

"Working hours vary considerably for my employees, so I process new payroll each time. That's why I really like that I can pull a draft that I can use as a control check. And they even look like the real payslips." - Kristian Belling Worm

"Danløn is easy to use in every respect. I spend quite a bit of time keeping track of the different employees and their payroll, but the actual data entry in Danløn is simple and quick." - Kristian Belling Worm

"Danløn helps me create clarity and structure that you don't get anywhere else. That's really the strength of Danløn. It helps me through something that is really complicated." - Kristian Belling Worm

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Solution

Danløn provided a simple, affordable payroll solution that met Midgaard Event's specific needs. The implementation includes: ability to mark employees as active or inactive based on work status, flexible payroll processing for varying employee schedules, draft payroll slips for verification before final processing, automatic system updates for legal and regulatory changes, and an intuitive user interface. Kristian can process payroll for the approximately 40 employees who work each month, with the system handling the complexity of variable work hours. The system provides draft payroll slips that resemble actual payroll documents, allowing for verification before submission. Danløn's affordable pricing (among the cheapest available) and ease of use made it the ideal choice for the growing event company.

Results

Midgaard Event achieved significant operational improvements: simplified payroll processing for a complex workforce with variable hours, reduced time spent on payroll administration, maintained compliance with legal and regulatory requirements through automatic system updates, improved accuracy with draft verification capability, achieved cost-effective payroll management with competitive pricing, and enabled the company to focus on core business activities. The company successfully scaled from a part-time operation to a major event bureau with 80 employees while maintaining manageable payroll processes. In 2019, Midgaard Event and Escape Room were recognized as Børsen Gazelle companies.