Calira Pricing Overview

The UI is intuitive and easy to use. Being able to set individual or group booking rules means user-access can be managed effectively based on their experience level; this protects sensitive instruments against misuse.

As a TRAC costed facility we need to be able to log instrument uptime/downtime, user numbers , income generated and maintenance. We also need to assign sessions and costs to specific UKRI funding bodies which can do easily through the Projects option. Reports and spreadsheets capturing all of these metrics can then be generated at the click of a button.

Being able to upload documents to each individual equipment dashboard is superb as we can then have the Risk Assessments, Standard operating procedures , instruction manuals etc available to every user at the point of booking.

Support from Calira has been excellent and the software is competitively priced. As an academic facility with limited budget fully integrated PIMS and LIMS systems are prohibitively expensive and not an option for us. They are also overly complicated and often have a level of functionality we do not need, Calira provides everything we need. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

To date there is actually nothing I dislike about this platform. It provides everything we need and I have not encountered any issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

They have always been helpful when we had problems. We can coordinate more efficiently. We started using it during lockdown for social distancing and that worked well too. I can download reports to determine when machines have been used for enough hours to need maintenance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The interaction between grouped permissions and individual permissions causes some problems. We have multiple working groups where all of that group need a specific set of equipment, so a group is used to add those items in bulk, but then when an individual works across workgroups, having a pre-set group that does not give permission makes it time consuming to add the individual items. We still would like a feature that automatically counts how many hours a device has been used since some last known set point and can easily provide the total - there are work-arounds using exported reports for this. Some new users get confused if registration is a scam because of the Clustermarket/Calira rebranding. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.