The Recras philosophy
Working at a leisure company is great: you get the chance to give people an unforgettable day through unique activities in beautiful locations. To be able to offer such a special outing to as many people as possible requires quite a bit of administrative work. This includes keeping track of which visitors are visiting at what time, who is accompanying them, whether payments have already been made and what still needs to be taken care of to make it a great party.
Recras is designed to help recreation operators and employees get back to enjoying their unique recreation business. We do this by automating business processes as much as possible. Generating online bookings, informing suppliers and sending automated e-mails to customers and staff are good examples. Of course, not everything can be automated and human actions remain necessary for your recreation company to function. Even in those cases, Recras helps you keep the administration as simple as possible, through automatic notifications in a proactive, supportive role.
The result? Less administrative work, less worry and more enjoyment from your business. Recras takes care of it for you.
The origins of Recras
In 2003, Harrie Kerssies and Marthijn Wolting founded ‘Taribush’, a recreation company in the province of Drenthe focused on organising all kinds of family and company outings. During the first years of Taribush, both owners were still busy with their own full-time jobs, which made it extremely difficult to keep the administration in order each time. A system was needed that could keep track of when an accommodation was rented out and to whom.
In 2006, they met Tijmen Klein. He had founded his own programming company ‘Klein Informatica’ in the previous years and decided to take up the challenge to help Harrie and Marthijn get rid of their administrative hassle with both hands. In the following years, the men from Taribush passed on their wishes for the administration system and Tijmen incorporated them into a first web-based version.
In 2010, when another leisure entrepreneur by chance saw what kind of system Taribush was using to keep track of all reservations, he roared, “I want that too!”. Harrie, Marthijn and Tijmen then put their heads together and launched Recras: an administration and reservation system for the leisure industry, developed by a unique combination of leisure entrepreneurs and programmers.