Bundle Connect

Bundle Connect is the laundry management system at the centre of the Bundle Laundry product range. The vendor has served the textile laundry sector with software for nearly twenty years and works with operations in the United Kingdom and Australia. Connect is designed for the daily running of a laundry: it takes online orders, manages dispatch, produces invoices and generates detailed reports, and it is available as a cloud or desktop package. The vendor says the aim is to give a laundry back control of its business and raise sales, production and profit.

The wider Bundle suite

Connect is one of four products, and each covers a different part of a textile service operation.

• Bundle Track handles laundry asset management, following items such as linen through the cycle.
• Bundle Worx is a production management system for the processing floor.
• Bundle IQ is a business intelligence tool that turns operational data into reporting.
• Bundle Laundry PPM is a newer addition that the vendor has introduced on its site.

A client portal sits across the suite so that customers can see and own their operations. The vendor describes everything it builds as aiming at trust, efficiency and reliability, and argues that manual processes leave a laundry open to inefficiency and errors that the suite is meant to remove.

Handling orders and customer accounts

Order handling is a clear strength of the system. It records set delivery days, recurring orders, fixed cut-off times, and notes on orders and pick-ups, so that everyone involved sees the same information. The vendor says this makes it easier to follow the progress of an order and to respond to queries. An announced integration with PurchasePlus connects Connect to a purchasing tool.

Sectors it serves

Bundle works with textile service companies of all sizes that supply:

• hospitals, nursing units and infection control teams, where tracking and managing the linen load matters;
• hotels and other accommodation providers, and food and beverage venues;
• mining operations;
• workwear and uniform suppliers;
• private businesses and government agencies.

For hotels the vendor says its tools help executive housekeepers keep track of linen orders, deliveries, stock levels and costs. Its articles also cover infection control standards in medical laundries, linen loss and automatic tracking, and common order management problems.

Bundle Connect is the core laundry management system from Bundle Laundry, which has supplied software to textile service companies for close to twenty years. It runs the daily work of a laundry, from online orders through dispatch to invoicing and detailed reports, as cloud and desktop software.

What Bundle Connect does

• Laundry management: orders, dispatch, invoicing and reporting in one package.
• Bundle Track: asset management for laundry items.
• Bundle Worx: a production management system.
• Bundle IQ: a business intelligence tool.
• Client portal: gives customers visibility of their operations.

Clients

Textile service companies of all sizes serving healthcare, accommodation, food and beverage, mining, workwear and uniforms, and government agencies.

Key facts

• Experience: nearly twenty years in the textile laundry community.
• Integrations: a connection with PurchasePlus has been announced.