Success stories:
Red Badge Group
Learn how Red Badge adopted Access Financials to increase their productivity.
Background
Red Badge Group are proudly 100% New Zealand-owned and operated specialists in security guarding, mobile patrols and event security services.
They are leaders in security guarding solutions with partners such as Kiwi Property, Michael Hill Jeweller, The University of Waikato, and SCENTRE Group. Red Badge provides retail security across multiple locations for all the above partners.
Red Badge was in search of financial management software that could help them streamline their accounts payable processes.
Challenges
- Inability to track budgets by their cost centres.
- Time-consuming manual accounts payables processes.
- Risk of manual errors during the payable workflows.
Approach
- Implementing Access Financials to reduce manual errors from inputting their sales quotes.
Results
- Increased productivity, with Access Financials API enabling them to import their sales quotes from a third-party app.
- Faster processing, improved visibility of their order processing and robust reporting capabilities.
- Amazing experiences with our implementation and support, with the process going exceptionally smoothly.
Challenges
Inefficient accounts payable processes
Anthony Trigg is Head of Finance for Red Badge Group, looking after a broad range of finance functions for the business: “In my role, I am responsible for acquisition, month-end, tax compliance, key supplier management, payroll, accounts payable and change management for the business.”
Red Badge was using Access Attache for their payroll requirements but, as Anthony explains, they were facing a multitude of issues that were impacting the productivity of their finance team.
"We had the inability to track budgets by their cost centres, and other time-consuming issues that were impacting our manual accounts payable process.”
Red Badge decided enough was enough, and it was time to look to financial management software options that could solve these headaches for them.
Solution
An easy implementation experience with Access Financials
After they chose Access Financials to meet their requirements, Red Badge underwent the implementation process, with them giving us 5-stars for the level of consultancy and support they experienced throughout.
Red Badge praised us for our knowledge of the product, our detail-oriented implementation process, and perhaps most importantly of all, taking the time to understand the needs of Red Badge, which made the process exceptionally smooth.
“The implementation team were always very quick to shoot down anything that wasn’t possible, so we always knew where we stood during the process,” Anthony adds.
Results
Reaping the benefits of greater productivity
Access Financials API now enables Red Badge to import their sales quotes directly from a third-party app, increasing productivity for the team and vastly reducing the risk of human error that come with inputting these quotes manually.
Access Financials has helped Red Badge in a number of other ways since their implementation was completed, as Anthony highlights.
"Thanks to Access Financials we can now upload our budgets by cost centre, edit all our posted transactions and we now have the ability to have a PO system, expense recognition and debtor creditor controls. We’ve already experienced greater productivity thanks to features such as these.”
Anthony offered this word of advice for other businesses looking to change their financial management software:
“When you’re thinking about changing software, you need to concentrate not on the here and now, but where you think your business is going to be in 5, even 10 years’ time.”