How Kota helped &Open reimagine employee benefits and automate away finance tasks

&Open’s Story

&Open are on a mission to fix corporate gifting. They know that lasting relationships aren’t built on wasteful freebies. People need to know they matter. Their team understands that a carefully-selected gift, given at just the right time, has the power to take a relationship beyond the transactional.

At Kota, we feel the same way about providing benefits to employees. Employees need to know they matter. Offering the right benefits to your employees, and articulating the value of that clearly, creates meaningful trust.

Financial wellbeing at the heart of the offering 

&Open’s team were looking for something their employees would actually utilise. They had gotten feedback from their employees that many of their young team didn’t enjoy going back and forth on confusing plans with traditional brokers. They also knew that if the onboarding and set up was cumbersome, their employees simply wouldn’t engage. With Kota, the &Open team are now setting up their future financial position in a stress-free way. 

Aligning finance and HR teams 

Benefits management and payroll with many companies straddles both HR and Finance teams. With Kota, the finance team can easily run payroll, and pay all of their vendor invoices each month, giving back time that is usually spent reconciling data. 

Driving engagement  through an excellent UI 

When it comes to benefits management, traditionally speaking, user experience for both the HR and Finance departments as well as employees has traditionally been poor. &Open, being a series A company, wanted something they could scale up with quickly, while always keeping employees engaged, making Kota the obvious choice.